Computer Architecture

Paper Code: 
MCA 123
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To design and realize the functionality of the computer hardware with basic gates and other components using combinational and sequential logic.
  • To understand the various combinational and sequential circuits like multiplexer, register etc.
  • To be aware of various types of instruction and their addressing modes. The evolution and fundamental principles of computer system and its parts.
  • To understand the concept of computer memory system and its different techniques.
12.00
Unit I: 
Combinational Digital Circuits:

Gates, Boolean Functions and Expressions, Designing Gate Networks, Timing and Control, Latches, Flip-Flops and Registers, Sequential Circuits. Register, Multiplexer, Binary Counter Clocks and Timing of Events, Common Bus System.

12.00
Unit II: 
Computer Organization:

Components to Applications, Computer Systems and their Parts, Processor and Memory Technologies, Peripherals I/O and Communications, Software Systems and Applications.

12.00
Unit III: 
Instruction and addressing:

instruction formats, types, addressing modes.  Assembler first pass and second pass, Basic programs of Assembly Language , Assembler Directives, Pseudo Instructions, Macroinstructions, Linking and Loading,.8085 Instruction Set. Arithmetic/Logic Unit: Number Representation, Arithmetic Operations, Floating-Point Arithmetic.

12.00
Unit IV: 
Computer Memory System:

Main Memory Concepts, Cache Memory Organization, Virtual Memory and Paging.

Input/Output and Interfacing, Input/Output Devices, Input/Output Programming, Interrupts.

12.00
Unit V: 
Vector and Array Processor:

Vector and Array Processing, Shared-Memory, Multiprocessing, Distributed Multi Computing. Programming in 8085 Microprocesso.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Structured Computer Organization”, 5-th edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.
  • M. Morris Mano, “Computer System Architecture”, Pearson Education, 3rd edition, 2009.
REFERENCES: 
  • Milles J. Murdocca, Vincent P. Heuring, “Computer Architecture and Organization: An Integrated Approach”, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2007.
  • William Stallings, “Computer Organization & Architecture”, 7th edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.
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