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503 COMPUTER ORGANISATION & ARCHITECTURE (TA)

L-T-P 2-1-0
Module I Functional units of a Computer Von Neuman Architecture -Steps involved in Execution of an instruction Harvard Architecture - Performance measurement and benchmarking. Instruction formats Survey of addressing modes - CISC and RISC. Computer Arithmetic Implementing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Floating point representation Floating point operations & their implementation. MIPS architecture, addressing modes , instruction format and instruction set. Translating a C program into MIPS assembly language and machine codes. Module II Design of Data path and Control ( based on MIPS instruction set) - Design of data path to cover the basic memory reference (lw & sw), arithmetic/logical (add, sub, and, or) and branch instructions Control of the single clock cycle implementation Multi cycle implementation Fetch, Decode, Execute and Memory access cycles Design of control unit Hardwired and Microprogrammed control. Enhancing Performance Pipelining overview of pipelining pipelined datapath pipelined control data hazards and forwarding data stalls control hazards branch hazards. Module III Memory system hierarchy Caches Mapping techniques Replacement algorithm Cache performance interleaved memory Virtual memory Address translation. Interfacing I/O to Processor. Interrupts and Direct Memory Access. CISC microprocessors. Architecture of Intel 8086 - CPU, pin functions, instruction cycle time, addressing. Modes. VLIW architecture.

Credits: 3

Text Book: 1. David A Patterson, John L Hennessy, Computer Organisation and Design The Hardware / Software Interface, 3 /e, Elsevier Publications. 2. David A Patterson, John L Hennessy,Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, 4 /e, Elsevier Publications. 3. Douglas V Hall, Microprcessors and Interfacing; Programming and Hardware, 2/e, TMH. References: 1. Hayes, Computer Architecture and Organisation, 3/e, Mc Graw Hill. 2. Kai Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability and Programmability, 1993, Mc Graw Hill. 3. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, Safwat Zaky, Computer Organisation, 5 /e, Mc Graw Hill.
This subject shall be handled by faculty of Dept.of Electronics and Communication. Question Paper The question paper shall consist of two parts. Part I is to cover the entire syllabus, and carries 40 marks. This shall contain 10 compulsory questions of 4 marks each. Part II is to cover 3 modules, and carries 60 marks. There shall be 3 questions from each module (10 marks each) out of which 2 are to be answered. (Minimum 40% Problems and design)