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SYLLABUS

Unit - 1 :

Computer Organization and Instructions Basics of a Computer System: Evolution, Ideas, Technology, Performance, Power Wall, Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors. Addressing and Addressing Modes. Instructions: Operations and Operands, Representing Instructions, Logical Operations, Control Operations.

Unit - 2 :

Arithmetic Fixed Point Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Floating Point Arithmetic, High Performance Arithmetic, Subword Parallelism.

Unit - 3 :

The Processor Introduction, Logic Design Conventions, Building a Datapath – A Simple Implementation Scheme – An overview of Pipelining – Pipelined Datapath and Control. Data Hazards: Forwarding Versus Stalling, Control Hazards, Exceptions, Parallelism via Instructions.

Unit - 4 :

Memory And I/O Organization Memory Hierarchy, Memory Chip Organization, Cache Memory, Virtual Memory. Parallel Bus Architectures, Internal Communication methodologies, Serial Bus Architectures, Mass Storage, Input and Output Devices.

Unit - 5 :

Advanced Computer Architecture Parallel Processing Architectures and Challenges, Hardware Multithreading, Multicore and Shared Memory Multiprocessors, Introduction to Graphics Processing Units, Clusters and Warehouse Scale Computers – Introduction to Multiprocessor Network Topologies.