Unit 1 Basic Structure of a Computer System

7 lecture hours

• - Functional Units – Basic Operational Concepts – Performance – Instructions: Language of the Computer – Operations
• Operands – Instruction representation – Logical operations – decision making – MIPS Addressing

Unit 2 Arithmetic For Computers

6 lecture hours

• - Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication – Division – Floating Point Representation - Floating Point Operations – Subword Parallelism

Unit 3 Processor And Control Unit

8 lecture hours

• - A Basic MIPS implementation
• Building a Datapath
• Control Implementation Scheme – Pipelining
• Pipelined data path and control
• Handling Data Hazards & Control Hazards

Unit 4 Parallelism

10 lecture hours

• - Parallel processing challenges – Flynn’s classification – SISD
• SPMD, and Vector Architectures - Hardware multithreading – Multi-core processors and other Shared Memory Multiprocessors - Introduction to Graphics Processing Units
• Warehouse Scale Computers and other Message-Passing Multiprocessors

Unit 5 Memory & I/O Systems

• - Memory Hierarchy - memory technologies – cache memory – measuring and improving cache performance – virtual memory
• TLB’s – Accessing I/O Devices – Interrupts – Direct Memory Access – Bus structure – Bus operation – Arbitration – Interface circuits - USB 8 Subject Code: 3154107 w.e.f