UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BEEZ071

Computer Organization & Architecture

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Electrical & Computer Engineering · Sem 7 (Departmental Elective-IV)

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Syllabus

5 units
Unit1

Unit 1: Introduction

Functional units of digital system and their interconnections, buses, bus architecture, types of buses and bus arbitration. Register, bus and memory transfer. Processor organization, general registers organization, stack organization and addressing modes.

Unit2

Unit 2: Arithmetic and logic unit

Look ahead carries adders. Multiplication: Signed operand multiplication, Booths algorithm and array multiplier. Division and logic operations. Floating point arithmetic operation, Arithmetic & logic unit design. IEEE Standard for Floating Point Numbers

Unit3

Unit 3: Control Unit

Instruction types, formats, instruction cycles and sub cycles (fetch and execute etc), micro operations, execution of a complete instruction. Program Control, Reduced Instruction Set Computer, Pipelining. Hardwire and micro programmed control: micro programme sequencing, concept of horizontal and vertical microprogramming.

Unit4

Unit 4: Memory

Basic concept and hierarchy, semiconductor RAM memories, 2D & 2 1/2D memory organization. ROM memories. Cache memories: concept and design issues & performance, address mapping and replacement Auxiliary memories: magnetic disk, magnetic tape and optical disks Virtual memory: concept implementation.

Unit5

Unit 5: Input / Output

  • Peripheral devices, I/O interface, I/O ports, Interrupts: interrupt hardware, types of interrupts and exceptions. Modes of Data Transfer: Programmed I/O, interrupt initiated I/O and Direct Memory Access., I/O channels and processors.
  • Serial Communication: Synchronous & asynchronous communication, standard communication interfaces.
Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Study of the basic structure and operation of a digital computer system.K2
  2. CO2Analysis of the design of arithmetic & logic unit and understanding of the fixed point and floating-point arithmetic operations.K4
  3. CO3Implementation of control unit techniques and the concept of PipeliningK3
  4. CO4Understanding the hierarchical memory system, cache memories and virtual memoryK2
  5. CO5Understanding the different ways of communicating with I/O devices and standard I/O interfacesK2

Text books

  1. Computer System Architecture - M. Mano
  2. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, Safwat Zaky Computer Organization, McGraw-Hill, Fifth Edition, Reprint 2012
  3. John P. Hayes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Tata McGraw-Hill, Third Edition, 1998. Reference books
  4. William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture-Designing for Performance, Pearson Education, Seventh edition, 2006.
  5. Behrooz Parahami, “Computer Architecture”, Oxford University Press, Eighth Impression, 2011.
  6. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, “Computer Architecture-A Quantitative Approach”, Elsevier, a division of reed India Private Limited, Fifth edition, 2012 Structured Computer Organization, Tannenbaum(PHI)

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 12, 13 of the original AKTU PDF.

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