CS6303 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE SYLLABUS

CS6303 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE SYLLABUS FOR ANNA UNIVERSITY THIRD SEMESTER CSE STUDENTS
University : Anna university
Semester : 3rd Sem
Department : CSE
Year : Second Yr
Regulation : 2013
Subject Credits : 3
CS6303 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
SYLLABUS
REGULATION 2013

OBJECTIVES:
To make students understand the basic structure and operation of
digital computer
.
To understand the hardware-software interface.
To familiarize the students with arithmetic and logic unit and implementation of fixed point and floating-point arithmetic operations.
To expose the students to the concept of pipelining.
To familiarize the students with hierarchical memory system including cache memories andvirtual memory.
To expose the students with different ways of communicating with I/O devices and standard I/O interfaces.
UNIT I OVERVIEW & INSTRUCTIONS
Eight ideas – Components of a computer system – Technology – Performance – Power wall –
Uniprocessors to multiprocessors; Instructions – operations and operands – representing instructions – Logical operations – control operations – Addressing and addressing modes.
UNIT II ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS
ALU - Addition and subtraction – Multiplication – Division – Floating Point operations – Subword parallelism.
UNIT III PROCESSOR AND CONTROL UNIT
Basic MIPS implementation – Building datapath – Control Implementation scheme – Pipelining – Pipelined datapath and control – Handling Data hazards & Control hazards – Exceptions.
UNIT IV PARALLELISM
Instruction-level-parallelism – Parallel processing challenges – Flynn's classification – Hardware multithreading – Multicore processors
UNIT V MEMORY AND I/O SYSTEMS
Memory hierarchy - Memory technologies – Cache basics – Measuring and improving cache
performance - Virtual memory, TLBs - Input/output system, programmed I/O, DMA and interrupts, I/O processors.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Design arithmetic and logic unit.
Design and anlayse pipelined
control units
Evaluate performance of memory systems.
Understand parallel processing architectures.
TEXT BOOK:
1. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, “Computer organization and design’, Morgan
Kauffman / Elsevier, Fifth edition, 2014.
REFERENCES:
1. V.Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Varanesic and Safat G. Zaky, “Computer Organisation“, VI th
edition, Mc Graw-Hill Inc, 2012.
2. William Stallings “Computer Organization and Architecture” , Seventh Edition , Pearson
Education, 2006.
3. Vincent P. Heuring, Harry F. Jordan, “Computer System Architecture”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2005.
4. Govindarajalu, “Computer Architecture and Organization, Design Principles and Applications", first edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2005.
5. John P. Hayes, “Computer Architecture and Organization”, Third Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill,
1998.
6. http://nptel.ac.in/.