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SYLLABUS
Academic Year 2021-2022 – Odd Semester
Semester V (Regulations 2017)
Hours/Week
EC8552 Computer Architecture and Organization L T P C
3 0 0 3
BATCH: 2019-223 BRANCH: ECE YEAR: III ECE B
Mr.C.MAKESH Assistant Professor ECE
UNIT I COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & INSTRUCTIONS 9
Basics of a computer system: Evolution, Ideas, Technology, Performance, Power wall, Uniprocessors to
Multiprocessors. Addressing and addressing modes. Instructions: Operations and Operands, Representing
instructions, Logical operations, control operations.
UNIT II ARITHMETIC 9
Fixed point Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Floating Point arithmetic, High performance
arithmetic, Subword parallelism
UNIT III THE PROCESSOR 9
Introduction, Logic Design Conventions, Building a Datapath - A Simple Implementation scheme - An
Overview of Pipelining - Pipelined Datapath and Control. Data Hazards: Forwarding versus Stalling, Control
Hazards, Exceptions, Parallelism via Instructions.
UNIT IV MEMORY AND I/O ORGANIZATION 9
Memory hierarchy, Memory Chip Organization, Cache memory, Virtual memory. Parallel Bus Architectures,
Internal Communication Methodologies, Serial Bus Architectures, Mass storage, Input and Output Devices.
UNIT V ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE 9
Parallel processing architectures and challenges, Hardware multithreading, Multicore and shared memory
multiprocessors, Introduction to Graphics Processing Units, Clusters and Warehouse scale computers -
Introduction to Multiprocessor network topologies.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, ―Computer Organization and Design‖, Fifth edition, Morgan
Kauffman / Elsevier, 2014. (UNIT I-V)
2. Miles J. Murdocca and Vincent P. Heuring, ―Computer Architecture and Organization: An Integrated
approach‖, Second edition, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2015 (UNIT IV,V)
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Coimbatore - 48
SYLLABUS
Academic Year 2021-2022 – Odd Semester
Semester V (Regulations 2017)
Hours/Week
EC8552 Computer Architecture and Organization L T P C
3 0 0 3
BATCH: 2019-23 BRANCH: ECE YEAR: III ECE B
Mr.C.MAKESH Assistant Professor ECE
REFERENCES:
1. V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Varanesic and Safat G. Zaky, ―Computer Organization―, Fifth edition, Mc
Graw-Hill Education India Pvt Ltd, 2014.
2. William Stallings ―Computer Organization and Architecture‖, Seventh Edition, Pearson Education, 2006.
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3. Govindarajalu, ―Computer Architecture and Organization, Design Principles and Applications", Second
edition, McGraw-Hill Education India Pvt Ltd, 2014.
The syllabus received from Anna University vide circular no: dated hosted in
the website (www. annauniv.edu) is enclosed herewith as detailed below.
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