Computer System Architecture Syllabus

Computer System Architecture Syllabus – To learn about Computer System Architecture, we need to know about four main units in Computer architecture.

Introduction to computer architecture and organization, Central Processing Unit, Computer Arithmetic, Memory Organization, Input-output organization.

Introduction to Computer Architecture and Organization

1. Computer Architecture fundamentals
2. Development of Computers
3. Von Neuman and Harvard machine Architecture
4. Flynn Classification
5. Computer Structure Architecture
6. Interfacing Logic Devices
7. Levels of Design abstraction
8. Register Transfer and Micro Operations
9. Register Transfer Language
10. Arithmetic Micro-operations
11. Logic Micro-operations
12. Shift Micro-operations
13. Bus and memory transfer
14. Computer Organization and Design
15. Instruction cycle
16. Computer registers
17. Common bus system
18. Computer instructions
19. Addressing modes
20. Design of a basic computer

Central Processing Unit

1. General register organization
2. Stack organization
3. Instruction formats
4. Data transfer and manipulation
5. Program control
6. RISC characteristics
7. CISC characteristics

Computer Arithmetic

1. Adder
2. Ripple carry Adder
3. Carry look Ahead adder
4. Multiplication – Add and shift
5. Array multiplier and Booth Multiplier
6. Division – restoring and Non-restoring techniques
7. Floating point representation – Add, subtract, multiplication, division

Memory Organization

1. RAM
2. ROM
3. Memory Hierarchy
4. Organization
5. Associative memory
6. Cache memory
7. Virtual memory – Paging and Segmentation

Input-Output Organization

1. Input-Output Interface
2. Modes of Transfer
3. Priority Interrupt
4. DMA
5. IOP processor