Name of Subject : COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

( 5 CS 2)

Unit

Contents

REGISTER TRANSFER LANGUAGE: Data

movement around registers. Data movement from/to memory, arithmetic

I

and logic micro operations. Concept of bus and timing in register transfer.

CPU ORGANISATION: Addressing

Modes, Instruction Format. CPU organization with large registers, stacks and

II

handling of interrupts & subroutines Instruction pipelining

ARITHMETIC ALGORITHM: Array multiplier, Booth's algorithm. Addition subtraction for signed unsigned numbers

III

and 2's complement numbers.

MICROPROGRAMMED CONTROL UNIT :

Basic organization of micro-programmed controller, Horizontal & Vertical

IV

formats, Address sequencer

MEMORY ORGANISATION: Concept

of RAM/ROM, basic cell of RAM, Associative memory, Cache memory

organization, Vertical memory organization. I/O ORGANISATION: Introduction

to Peripherals & their interfacing.

V

Strobe based and handshake-based communication, DMA based data transfer, I/O processor.