EC-504 (B) · Computer System Organization/Official Syllabus
Computer System Organization (EC-504 (B)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
COMPUTER BASICS AND CPU
- Von Newman model
- various subsystems
- CPU
- Memory
- I/O
- System Bus
- CPU and Memory registers
- Program Counter
- Accumulator
- Instruction register
- Micro operations
- Register Transfer Language
- Instruction Fetch, decode and execution
- data movement and manipulation
- Instruction formats and addressing modes of basic computer
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Unit 2
CONTROL UNIT ORGANIZATION
- Hardwired control unit
- Micro and nano programmed control unit
- Control Memory
- Address Sequencing
- Micro Instruction formats
- Micro program sequencer
- Microprogramming
- ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC UNIT Arithmetic Processor
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Floating point and decimal arithmetic and arithmetic units
- design of arithmetic unit
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Unit 3
INPUT OUTPUT ORGANIZATION
- Modes of data transfer – program controlled, interrupt driven and direct memory access
- Interrupt structures
- I/O Interface
- Asynchronous data transfer
- I/O processor
- Data transfer – Serial / parallel
- synchronous/asynchronous
- simplex/half duplex and full duplex
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Unit 4
MEMORY ORGANIZATION
- Memory Maps
- Memory Hierarchy
- Cache Memory -Organization and mappings
- Associative memory
- Virtual memory
- Memory Management Hardware
5
Unit 5
MULTIPROCESSORS
- Pipeline and Vector processing
- Instruction and arithmetic pipelines
- Vector and array processors
- Interconnection structure and inter-processor communication
Reference Books
- Computer System Architecture — Morris Mano — Pearson Education
- Computer Organization and Architecture — William Stallings — PHI
- Computer Organization — Carl Hamacher — TMH
- Structured Computer Organization — Tanenbaum — Pearson Education
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