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General info: CS6303- Computer Architecture	University – Anna university, Tamil nadu, India Marks: UNIT 1 to 5 – 9+3 each unit  Period - TOTAL (L:45+T:15): 60 PERIODS
Objectives: 1)     To make students understand the basic structure and operation of digital computer. 2)     To understand the hardware-software interface. 3)     To familiarize the students with arithmetic and logic unit and implementation of fixed point and floating-point arithmetic operations. 4)    To expose the students to the concept of pipelining. 5)     To familiarize the students with hierarchical memory system including cache memories and virtual memory. 6)     To expose the students with different ways of communicating with I/O devices and standard I/O interfaces.
UNIT I -OVERVIEW & INSTRUCTIONS Eight ideas – Components of a computer system – Technology – Performance – Power wall – Uniprocessors to multiprocessors; Instructions – operations and operands – representing instructions – Logical operations – control operations – Addressing and addressing modes.
UNIT II -ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS ALU - Addition and subtraction – Multiplication – Division – Floating Point operations – Sub word  parallelism.
UNIT III -PROCESSOR AND CONTROL UNIT Basic MIPS implementation – Building datapath – Control Implementation scheme – Pipelining – Pipelined datapath and control – Handling Data hazards & Control hazards – Exceptions.
UNIT IV –PARALLELISM Instruction-level-parallelism – Parallel processing challenges – Flynn's classification – Hardware multithreading – Multicore processors
UNIT V- MEMORY AND I/O SYSTEMS Memory hierarchy - Memory technologies – Cache basics – Measuring and improving cache performance - Virtual memory, TLBs - Input/output system, programmed I/O, DMA and interrupts, I/O processors.
OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, the student should be able to: · Design arithmetic and logic unit. · Design and anlayse pipelined control units · Evaluate performance of memory systems. · Understand parallel processing architectures
TEXT BOOK: 1.     David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, “Computer organization and design’, Morgan Kauffman / Elsevier, Fifth edition, 2014. 2. William Stallings “Computer Organization and Architecture” , Seventh Edition , Pearson Education, 2006. 3. Vincent P. Heuring, Harry F. Jordan, “Computer System Architecture”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2005. 4. Govindarajalu, “Computer Architecture and Organization, Design Principles and Applications", first edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2005. 5. John P. Hayes, “Computer Architecture and Organization”, Third Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 1998.
Notes from studentfocus.com: UNIT-1, UNIT-2, UNIT-3, UNIT-4, UNIT-5 NOTES FROM ME: CLICK HERE