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LTP- 3-1-0,CRD- 4
SYLLABUS :-
Basic functional blocks of a computer: CPU, memory, input-output subsystems,
control unit. Instruction set architecture of a CPU - registers, instruction
execution cycle, RTL interpretation of instructions, addressing modes,
instruction set. Case study - instruction sets of some common CPUs.Data
representation: signed number repre-sentation, fixed and floating point
representations, character representation. Computer arithmetic - integer
addition and subtraction, ripple carry adder, carry look-ahead adder, etc.
multiplication - shift-and-add, Booth multiplier, carry save multiplier, etc.
Division - restoring and non-restoring techniques, floating point
arithmetic.CPU control unit design: hardwired and micro-programmed design
approaches, Case study - design of a simple hypothetical CPU.Memory system
design: semiconductor memory technologies, memory organization.Peripheral
devices and their characteristics: Input-output subsystems, I/O transfers -
program controlled, interrupt driven and DMA, privileged and non-privileged
instructions, software interrupts and exceptions. Programs and processes - role
of interrupts in process state transitions.Performance enhancement
techniques:Pipelining: Basic concepts of pipelining, throughput and speedup,
pipeline hazards.Memory organization: Memory interleaving, concept of
hierarchical memory organization, cache memory, cache size vs. block size,
mapping functions, replacement algorithms, write policies.