COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Paper Code: 
BCA 203
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

In this module student will learn the basic structural design of a computer i.e. Register Transfer Language, Control Unit, CPU etc. They will also learn how all-arithmetic operations are done at architecture level. It also explains the basic organization of Memory and I/O devices.

 

12.00
Unit I: 

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), Arithmetic Logic Shift Unit.

 

12.00
Unit II: 

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.

Microprogrammed Control Unit: Control Memory, Address Sequencing and Conditional branching, Mapping of instruction, Subroutines.

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Microprogrammed Control Unit: Design of Control Unit.

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

12.00
Unit IV: 

Computer Arithmetic (excluding h/w implementation): Introduction, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication Algorithms (Booth algorithm), Division Algorithms.

Input – Output Organization: Peripheral devices, Input – Output interface

12.00
Unit V: 

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

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Morris Mano, “Computer System Architecture”, 3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, 1999. 

 

REFERENCES: 
  1. William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture”, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, 2001.
  2. Malvino, “Digital Computer Electronics: An Introduction to Microcomputers”, McGraw Hill, 1993.
  3. Moris Mano, “Digital Logic and Computer Design”, PHI Publications, 2002
  4. Pal Chaudhuri, P. “Computer Organization & Design”, PHI.
  5. Hayes. J.P., “Computer Architecture and Organization”, McGraw Hill Edition.
Academic Year: 
2015-16
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