CS6303 Computer Architecture  | Important  Questions
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OBJECTIVES:

• To make students understand the basic structure and operation of digital computer.
• To understand the hardware-software interface.
• To familiarize the students with arithmetic and logic unit and implementation of fixed point and
floating-point arithmetic operations.
• To expose the students to the concept of pipelining.
• To familiarize the students with hierarchical memory system including cache memories and
virtual memory.
• To expose the students with different ways of communicating with I/O devices and standard I/O
interfaces.

UNIT I OVERVIEW & INSTRUCTIONS 

Eight ideas – Components of a computer system – Technology – Performance – Power wall –
Uniprocessors to multiprocessors; Instructions – operations and operands – representing instructions
– Logical operations – control operations – Addressing and addressing modes.

UNIT II ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS 

ALU – Addition and subtraction – Multiplication – Division – Floating Point operations – Subword
parallelism.

UNIT III PROCESSOR AND CONTROL UNIT 

Basic MIPS implementation – Building datapath – Control Implementation scheme – Pipelining –
Pipelined datapath and control – Handling Data hazards & Control hazards – Exceptions.

UNIT IV PARALLELISM

Instruction-level-parallelism – Parallel processing challenges – Flynn’s classification – Hardware
multithreading – Multicore processors

UNIT V MEMORY AND I/O SYSTEMS 

Memory hierarchy – Memory technologies – Cache basics – Measuring and improving cache
performance – Virtual memory, TLBs – Input/output system, programmed I/O, DMA and interrupts, I/O processors.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

• Design arithmetic and logic unit.
• Design and anlayse pipelined control units
• Evaluate performance of memory systems.

• Understand parallel processing architectures.

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