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Computer Organisation – Blow up syllabus- Minutes of meeting

Unit I

  • Chapter 1 can be covered in 3 hours
  • Chapter 2 can be covered in 3 hours (2.1 to 2.4)
  • Problems should be discussed from the following topics:
  • Numbers and arithmetic operations
  • Memory location  Big-endian and little-endian

Unit II

  • Addressing modes – 1 hour
  • Assembly language – 1 hour
  • Basic I/O- 1 hour
  • Stack and queue- 1 hour
  • Subroutines- 1 hour
  • Additional Instructions- 1 hour
  • Encoding of machine instructions – 1 hour
  • Problems should be discussed from the following topics:
  • Addressing modes
  • Effective address calculation
  • Stack program example
  • Rotation and shift instructions
  • Instruction formats

Unit III

I/O organization

  • Accessing I/O devices & Introduction to interrupts- 1 hour
  • Interrupt hardware, enabling and disabling interrupts & Handling multiple devices can be covered in 2 hours
  • Emphasize more on Interrupts (4.2.1,4.2.2,4.2.3)
  • Emphasize more on bus arbitration, synchronous bus
  • Controlling device requests , exceptions – 1 hour
  • DMA & introduction to buses – 1 hour
  • Buses – 1 hour
  • Problems should be discussed from the following topics:
  • Enabling and disabling interrupts
  • Vector address handling

Unit IV

  • Interface circuits and standard I/O - 2 hours
  • Emphasize more on PCI, SCSI and USB buses- 5 hours

Unit V

  • Basic concepts- 1 hour
  • Decoding of addresses can be taught in depth
  • 5.6.4 (other enhancements ) can be briefed
  • Problems on cache can be stressed more
  • Mapping of cache memory can be covered in 2 hours
  • Replacement algorithms should be taught in depth
  • Problems should be discussed from the following topics:
  • Chip organization using SRAM and DRAM
  • Performance considerations

Hit and Miss Penalty

Unit VI

  • Virtual memory – 1 hour
  • Secondary storage can be covered in brief
  • Stress on DVD and CD as they are latest technologies
  • Virtual memory , mapping functions, paging , TLB can be covered in 2 hours
  • Virtual memory and secondary memory can be covered in 3 hours
  • Problems should be discussed from the following topics:
  • Fast adders - 5hours
  • Emphasize on problems to design fast adders

Unit VII

  • Problems on booth algorithm
  • Less stress on IEEE floating point numbers

Unit VIII

  • Problems should be discussed from the following topics:
  • Control signals for execution of instruction
  • Micro steps for execution of an instruction
  • Discuss each topics from this unit in detail
  • For students comfort this topic can be covered immediately after 2nd unit.

Note:

  • Refer replacement, mapping functions, address translation and caching from William stalling- Computer organization and architecture , , refer section 7.3 for programmed I/O in this reference book
  • Refer memory systems unit 5, mapping and caching from computer systems design and architecture by Heuring Jordan

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