Computer Organization
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Computer Organization Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Computer Organization (subject code 2140707) as prescribed for Computer Engineering · Semester 4 divides the course into 10 units, covering 65 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140707)Unit 1 Computer Data Representation
- Basic computer data types
- Fixed point representation
- Register Transfer and Micro-operations: Floating point representation
- Register Transfer language
- Register Transfer
- Bus and Memory Transfers (Tree-State Bus Buffers
- Memory Transfer)
- Arithmetic Micro-Operations
- Logic Micro- Operations
- Shift Micro-Operations
- Arithmetic logical shift unit
Unit 2 Basic Computer Organization and Design
- Instruction codes
- Computer registers
- computer instructions
- Timing and Control
- Instruction cycle
- Memory-Reference Instructions
- Input- output and interrupt
- Complete computer description
- Design of Basic computer
- design of Accumulator Unit
Unit 3 Programming The Basic Computer
- Machine Language
- Assembly Language
- Program loops
- Programming Arithmetic and logic operations
Unit 4 Micro programmed Control
- Control Memory
- Address sequencing
- Micro program Example
- design of control Unit
Unit 5 Central Processing Unit
- General Register Organization
- Stack Organization
- Instruction format
- Addressing Modes
- data transfer and manipulation
- Program Control
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)
Unit 6 Pipeline And Vector Processing
- Flynn's taxonomy
- Parallel Processing
- Arithmetic Pipeline
- RISC Pipeline
- Vector Processing
- Array Processors
Unit 7 Computer Arithmetic
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication Algorithms (Booth Multiplication Algorithm)
- Division Algorithms
- Floating Point Arithmetic operations
- Decimal Arithmetic Unit
Unit 8 Input-Output Organization
- Input-Output Interface
- Asynchronous Data Transfer
- Modes Of Transfer
- Priority Interrupt, DMA, Input-Output Processor (IOP)
- CPUIOP Communication
- Serial communication
Unit 9 Memory Organization
- Memory Hierarchy
- Main Memory
- Auxiliary Memory
- Associative Memory
- Cache Memory
- Virtual Memory
Unit 10 Multipreocessors
- Characteristics of Multiprocessors
- Interconnection Structures
- Inter- processor Arbitration
- Inter-processor Communication and Synchronization
- Cache Coherence
- Shared Memory Multiprocessors