COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE
[ Revised Credit System ]
(Effective from the academic year 2018-19)
SEMESTER - III
Subject Code CSE 2151 IA Marks 50
Number of Lecture Hours/Week 04 Exam Marks 50
Total Number of Lecture Hours 48 Exam Hours 03
CREDITS - 04
Course objectives: This course will enable students to
Summarize the fundamental concepts of the organization and architecture of a computer.
Analyze taxonomy of Execution, Processor, Memory and I/O Units.
Explain the pipelining principles, Data dependencies and hazards, SIMD and Multiprocessor
concepts.
Module -1 Teaching
Hours
BASIC STRUCTURE OF COMPUTERS 5 Hours
Computer types, Functional units, Basic operational concepts, Number
Representation and Arithmetic Operations, Character Representation, Problems.
Text 1: Ch 1: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9
Module -2
INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE 5 Hours
Memory locations and addresses, Memory operations, Instructions and Instruction
Sequencing, Addressing modes, CISC Instruction Sets, RISC and CISC Styles,
Example Programs.
Text 1: Ch 2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.15
Module – 3
ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC UNIT 7 Hours
Hardware for addition and subtraction, Multiplication, Hardware implementation,
Booth’s algorithm, Division, Floating point representation, IEEE standard
floating point representation, Floating point arithmetic.
Text 2: Ch 9: 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Module-4
CONTROL UNIT 10 Hours
Basic concepts, buses-bidirectional, single bus, 2 bus, 3 bus organization design
methods-comparison of hardwired and micro-programmed approach, hardwired
control design, Booths multiplier design, processing section design of booths
multiplier, Booths multiplier controller, sequence controller design, Micro-
programmed control unit: Micro-programmed control organization, Micro-
programmed multiplier control unit for booths multiplier.
Text 3: Ch 4: 4.1 to 4.3.2
Module-5
MEMORY SYSTEMS 10 Hours
Basic concepts, Internal organization of memory chips, Structure of Larger
Memories, Memory Hierarchy, Cache memories-mapping functions, Placement
strategies, Replacement algorithms, Performance considerations, Virtual
memories, Magnetic hard disk
Text 1: Ch 8: 8.1, 8.2.1, 8.2.5, 8.5, 8.6, 8.6.1, 8.7, 8.8, 8.10, 8.10.1, 8.12
Text 3: Ch 5: 5.8
Module-6
INPUT/OUTPUT ORGANIZATION 3 Hours
Accessing I/O devices, I/O Device Interface, Program-Controlled I/O, Interrupts,
Enabling and Disabling Interrupts, Handling Multiple Devices, Controlling I/O
Device Behavior, Processor Control Registers, Direct Memory Access.
Text 1: Ch 3: 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2, Ch 8: 8.4
Module-7
INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE 8 Hours
Pipelining- Basic Concept, Pipeline Organization, Pipelining Issues, Data
Dependencies, Operand Forwarding, Handling Data Dependencies in Software,
Memory Delays, Branch Delays, Unconditional Branches, Conditional Branches,
The Branch Delay Slot, Hardware Multithreading, Vector (SIMD) Processing,
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,
Interconnection Networks, Cache Coherence, Write-Through Protocol, Write-
Back protocol, Snoopy Caches, Directory-Based Cache Coherence
Text 1: Ch 6: 6.1 – 6.6, Ch 12: 12.1 – 12.4
Course outcomes:
After studying this course, students will be able to:
Outline the Computer Hardware and Software, Methodology of machine instructions, addressing
techniques and instruction sequencing.
Analyze the Number Systems, Positional number systems, Integer and Floating point
arithmetic.
Design the control unit.
Recall about the basics of memory design of computer systems
Explain about the typical I/O techniques.
Explain the pipelining principles, Data dependencies and hazards, SIMD and Multiprocessor
concepts.
Text Books:
1. Carl Hamacher, ZvonkoVranesic and SafwatZaky, “Computer Organization and Embedded Systems”,
Sixth edition, McGraw Hill Publication, 2012.
2. William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture – Designing for Performance”, 9 th
edition, PHI, 2015.
3. Mohammed Rafiquzzaman and Rajan Chandra, “Modern Computer Architecture”, Galgotia
Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2010.
Reference Books:
1. D.A. Patterson and J.L.Hennessy, "Computer Organization and Design-The Hardware/Software
Interface", Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2014.
2. J.P.Hayes, "Computer Architecture and Organization", McGraw Hill Publication, 1998.
