EE354

                                                        COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Computer -Functional units, Addressing modes, Instruction formats, Stacks and Subroutines. Processing Unit - Execution of instructions - Control step sequence.


Control Design - Hardwired control-design - multiplier control unit - CPU control unit and Microprogrammed control - micro instructions - Sequencing - prefecting.


Arithmetic and Logic Unit-Fixed point and floating point numbers and operations.Design of arithmetic units.


Memories - cache memories - virtual memories. Input-Output Organization- Data transfer-synchronization-Interrupt handling-I/O interfaces.


Introduction to parallel processing-Generation of computer systems - Parallelism in uniprocessor system-Parallel computer structures-architectural classification schemes.

  1. Morris Mano.M., ‘Computer system Architecture’,Third Edition, PHI, New Delhi 1993.

  2. C.Hamacher, Z.Vranesic, S.Zaky, "Computer Organization", V Edition, McGraw Hill, 2002.

  3. P.Pal Chaudhuri,’Computer organization and Design’,PHI,3rd editions,2008.