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Computer Architecture
Souad MEDDEB
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Objectives of the course
This course provides the basic knowledge necessary to
• understand the hardware operation of digital computers:
• It presents the various digital components used in the
organization and design of digital computers.
• Introduces the detailed steps that a designer must go
through in order to design an elementary basic computer.
• Presents the organization and architecture of the central
processing unit.
• Introduces the concepts of parallel processing & pipelining
• Introduces the organization and architecture of inputoutput and memory.
• Summarizes the concepts of multiprocessing.
Prerequisites
• Students are expected to have a solid
background in digital systems design.
• It will often be assumed that students have
working knowledge of computer concepts,
and binary arithmetic.
Textbook
Reference Material & Readings
• M. Morris Mano,
Computer System Architecture, 3rd edition,1993,
Prentice-Hall.
• John Hennessy and David Patterson,
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,
3rd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
• Lecture notes
Course Organization
1. Basic combinational and sequential circuits used for
building digital computers including: Logic Gates,
Arithmetic Circuits, Decoders, Encoders, Multiplexers,
Flipflops, Registers, and Counters.
2. Register Transfer and Micro-operations:
Micro-operations, Register transfer language, register
transfer, Bus and memory transfer, three-state
Buffers, memory transfer, Binary Adder, Binary AdderSubtractor, Binary incrementer, Arithmetic circuit.
3. Micro-operations: Arithmetic Micro-operations Logic
Micro-operations,Shift Micro operations, Hardware
Implementation, Arithmetic logic shift unit, Examples
continued
4. Basic Computer Organization and Design.
Instruction codes, Stored program organization,
Indirect address, Computer registers. Computer Bus
system.
5. Computer Instructions, Timing and control,
Instruction Cycle. Memory-Reference Instructions,
Input-output and interrupt, Register reference
instructions, Complete computer description,
Complete Design of Basic Computer, Design of
Accumulator Logic Unit.
6. Programming the Basic Computer: Machine
language, Assembly language
continued
7. Assembler (2-pass), Program loops,
Subroutines, Input-output programming.
8. Central Processing Unit: Introduction, Single
Processor-Register Organization, General
register organization, Stack Organization,
Instruction Formats.
9. Addressing Modes, Data Transfer and
Manipulation, Program Control, Reduced
Instruction set Computing.
continued
10. Pipeline and Vector Processing: Parallel processing,
Pipelining, Arithmetic Pipeline, Instruction Pipeline,
RISC Pipeline, Vector Processing, Array Processors
11. Input – Output Organization: Peripheral devices,
Input–output interface, Asynchronous data transfer,
Modes of transfer, Priority interrupt, Direct memory
access.
12. Memory Organization: Memory hierarchy, Main
memory, Auxiliary memory, Associative memory,
Cache memory, Virtual memory, Memory
management hardware