COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE(SEMESTER IV)

ANNA UNIVERSITY :: CHENNAI 600 025
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS
REGULATIONS – 2008
CURRICULUM FROM III TO VIII SEMESTERS AND ELECTIVES FOR
B.TECH. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

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COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE
(Common to CSE & IT)

UNIT I

BASIC STRUCTURE OF COMPUTERS

             Functional units – Basic operational concepts – Bus structures – Performance and metrics – Instructions and instruction sequencing – Hardware – Software Interface –
Instruction set architecture – Addressing modes – RISC – CISC. ALU design – Fixed point and floating point operations.

UNIT II

BASIC PROCESSING UNIT

             Fundamental concepts – Execution of a complete instruction – Multiple bus organization – Hardwired control – Micro programmed control – Nano programming.

UNIT III

PIPELINING

             Basic concepts – Data hazards – Instruction hazards – Influence on instruction sets – Data path and control considerations – Performance considerations – Exception
handling.

UNIT IV

MEMORY SYSTEM

             Basic concepts – Semiconductor RAM – ROM – Speed – Size and cost – Cache memories – Improving cache performance – Virtual memory – Memory management
requirements – Associative memories – Secondary storage devices.

UNIT V

I/O ORGANIZATION

             Accessing I/O devices – Programmed Input/Output -Interrupts – Direct Memory Access – Buses – Interface circuits – Standard I/O Interfaces (PCI, SCSI, USB), I/O devices and processors.