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B.Tech. CSE 4th Sem Subject: Computer System Architecture
UNIT - 1 Principles of computer design, Software/Hardware interaction, cost/benefit concepts of layers in architecture
design, Basic computer Organization taking 8085 as an example, binary arithmetic’s, add, subtract, multiply, divide
algorithms and implementations, Carry look ahead and fast adders.
UNIT - 2 CPU design, Choice of instruction set, Control structure hardwired and micro programmed control, RISC
Vs CISC, Pipelining in CPU design, Superscalar machines, Memory hierarchy design, Caches, Main memory, Internal memory, virtual memory, Architectural aids in
implementing these.
UNIT - 3 I/O Modes:, Programming. Interrupt, DMA. Channel, I/O Processor, I/O Performance measures, Buses
connecting I/O devices to CPU/ Memory, Interaction with operating system, Serial/Parallel Interfaces taking
8251 and 8255 as example.
UNIT - 4 Performance evaluation, SPEC marks, LINPACK, Whetstone, Dhrystone etc, Transaction processing
benchmarks.
UNIT - 5 Multiprocessor, Parallel & distributed computers, SIMD, SPMD, MIMD machines.
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