Computer Architecture

Introduction: Organisation and Architecture, Instruction sets- formats, cycle, timing etc;
Addressing modes; Types of Instruction; RISC characteristics; CISC characteristics.
Computer System: System Buses, Components, Functions, Bus Interconnection,
Computer Arithmetic: Different types of data representation; Addition and Subtraction;
Multiplication Algorithms; Division Algorithms.
Memory Organization: Main memory, Auxiliary memory, Associative memory, Cache
memory, Virtual memory, Memory management requirements and hardware.
Input-Output Organization: Input-Output Interfaces; Data transfer, Interrupts; Direct
Memory Access (DMA); Input-Output channel.
Central Processing Unit(CPU): ALU, CPU structure and Functions
Control Unit: Control Unit operation, Micro-operation, Control of processor, Hardwired
Implementation.
Fundamentals of parallel processing: Parallel processing; Pipelining; Vector processing;
Multiprocessors; Array processor, Bit-slice processor Interconnection structures