A4-R4: COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Objective of the Course Objective of the course is to familiarize students about hardware design

including logic design, basic structure and behavior of the various functional modules of the computer and how they interact to provide the processing needs of the user. This subject mainly focuses on the computer hardware and system software. It aims to describe the following aspects Building blocks of the computer Computer Design Assembly Language Programming

Outline of Course S. No. Topic 1. Digital Components 2. Data Representation 3. Register Transfer & Micro Operations 4. Basic Computer Organization 5. Central Processing Unit 6. Computer Arithmetic 7. Input-Output Organization 8. Memory Organization 9. Assembly Language Programming Minimum number of hours 10 04 04 04 08 06 08 08 08 Lectures = 60 Practical/tutorials = 60 Total = 120

Detailed Syllabus 1. Digital Components 10 Hrs. Overview of computer organization: Logic gates, Adders, Flip-flops (as 1 bit memory device), Encoders, Decoders, Multiplexers, Registers, Shift Registers, Counters, RAM,ROM 2. Data Representation 04 Hrs. Number system, Hexadecimal numbers, ASCII code, Twos complement, addition, subtraction, overflow, Floating point representation 3. Register Transfer & Micro Operations 04 Hrs. Bus and memory transfers, Three state Bus Buffers, Binary ADDER, Binary Incrementer, Arithmetic circuit, Logic and Shift Micro-operations, ALU 4. Basic Computer Organization 04 Hrs.

Instruction codes, Direct and indirect address, Timing and Control Signal generation, Instruction Cycle, Memory Reference Instructions, Input Output instructions. 5. Central Processing Unit 08 Hrs. General Register Organization, Memory Stack, One address and two address Instructions, Data transfer, arithmetic, logical and shift instructions, Software and hardware interrupts (only brief introduction), Arithmetic and Instruction Pipelines. 6. Computer Arithmetic 06 Hrs. Addition and Subtraction with signed magnitude data, Multiplication Algorithms Hardware Algorithm and Booth Algorithm, Division Algorithm 7. Input-Output Organization 08 Hrs. Asynchronous Data transfer - Handshaking, Asynchronous Serial Transfer, Interrupt Initiated I/O, DMA transfer, Interfacing Peripherals with CPU (Introduction), Keyboard, Mouse, Printer, Scanner, Network card, Introduction to Pipelining and Linear Pipeline processor 8. Memory Organization 08 Hrs. ROM, RAM, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, Cache Memory - Direct mapping scheme, Virtual Memoryconcept, Cache memory working principles 9. Assembly Language Programming 08 hrs. Assembly Language of Intel 8086, Simple examples based on arithmetic and characteroperations. Note: For assembly language programming Turbo Assembler may be used. RECOMMENDED BOOKS MAIN READING 1. Carter Nicholas, Computer Architecture, Schaun outline Sevies , Tata McGrawHill, 2008. 2. M. Morris Mano, Computer System Architecture, Pearson Education, 2008. 3. Peter Abel and N. Nizamuddin, IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming, Pearson Education, 2009. SUPPLEMENTARY READING 1. J.P. Hayes, Computer Architecture & Organization, Tata McGraw Hill 2. Michael J. Flynn, Computer Architecture: Pipelined and Parallel Processor Design, Narosa Publishing House, 2002.