Engineering Tutorials

CS-201 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

OBJECTIVES : This course offers a good understanding of the various functional units of a computer system and prepares the student to be in a position to design a basic computer system. Finally the student will be exposed to the recent trends in parallel and distributed computing and multithreaded application.

COURSE CONTENTS :

Principles of computer design – software / hardware interaction, cost/benefit concept of layers in architecture design 10%]

Basic Computer Organization taking 8085 as an example binary arithmetic – add, subtract, multiply – algorithms and implementations. carry look ahead add fast adders. [15%]

CPU design – Choice of instruction set control structure hardwired and microprogrammed control – RISC vs CISC, Pipelining in CPU design superscalar machines. [15%]

Memory hierarchy design caches, main memory, Interleave memory virtual memory architectural aids in implementing these. [10%]

I/O Modes- program interrupt, DMA, Channel, I/O Processor. [15%]

I/O performance measures – Buses connecting I/O devices to CPU/memory – interaction with operating system Serial/Parallel Interfaces taking 8251 and 8255 as examples. [15%]

Performance evaluation SPEC marks LINPACK Whetstone Dhrystone etc., Transaction processing benchmarks. [10%]

Multiprocessors – Parallel & distributed computers – SIMD SPMD and MIMD machines. [10%]

TEXT / REFERENCES :

Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Architectures, Morgaon Kauffman, San Mateo, CA, USA, 1992.

P.Pal Chaudhary, Computer Organization and Design Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1994.

P.V.S. Rao, Perspectives in Computer Architecture, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., NEW Delhi,1994.

M.R. Bhujade, Digital Computer Design Principles, Pitamber Publishing Co., 3rd Edition, 1996.

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