Computer Architecture

Register Transfer and Micro-operation: Register Transfer Language, Register Transfer, Bus and Memory Transfer: Three state bus buffers, Memory Transfer; Arithmetic Micro-operations: Binary Adder, Binary Adder-Subtrator, Binary Incrementor; Logic Micro-operations: List of Logic microoperations; Shift Micro-operations( excluding H/W implementation)

Logic Micro-operations: Arithmetic Logic Shift Unit. Basic Computer Organization and Design: Instruction Codes, Computer Registers: Common bus system; Computer Instructions: Instruction formats; Instruction Cycle: Fetch and Decode, Flowchart for Instruction cycle; Register reference instructions.

Central Processing Unit: Introduction, General Register Organization, Stack Organization: Register stack, Memory stack; Instruction Formats, Addressing Modes.

Computer Arithmetic (excluding h/w implementation): Introduction, Addition and Subtraction.

Computer Arithmetic (excluding h/w implementation): Multiplication Algorithms (Booth algorithm), Division Algorithms. Input – Output Organization: Peripheral devices, Input – Output interface. Modes of Data Transfer, Priority Interrupt, Direct Memory Access.

Memory Organization: Memory Hierarchy, Main Memory, Auxiliary Memory, Associative Memory, Cache Memory, Virtual Memory.

Multiprocessors: Characteristics of multi-processors, inter connection structure, inter processor arbitration, inter-processor communication and synchronization, Cache coherence.