This document provides information about a course on computer architecture and organization. The course will cover the basics of computer hardware, how computers represent and manipulate data, and the MIPS instruction set architecture. Students will learn how a simple computer is designed, including components like data format, instruction format, addressing modes, and the data, instruction, and address flow. The course assessments include assignments, presentations, and an open book exam. Key topics that will be covered include computer structure and function, CPU organization, instruction sets, and control unit operation. Recommended textbooks are also provided.

1. Computer Architecture & Organization
Books:
• David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy,
"Computer Architecture: A Quantitative
Approach", 3rd Edition, Morgan
Kaufmann.
• 2. William Stallings, “ Computer
Architecture & Organization: Designing for
Performance”, 9th Edition, Pearson

2. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOME (CLO):
After completion of the course the student will be/will have:
• CLO1. Able to understand the basics of computer
hardware and how computer interacts with computer
hardware
• CLO2. Able to demonstrate how computers represents
and manipulate data and basics of ISA Instruction Set
Architecture – MIPS.
• CLO3. Ability to determine a simple computer with
hardware design including data format, instruction format,
instruction set, addressing modes, bus structure,
input/output, memory, Arithmetic/Logic unit, control unit,
and data, instruction and address flow.

3. Marks Distribution
• 50 Marks Sessionals
—20 Marks Assignments( 04 Assignments)
—30 Marks Class Presentation(02 Presentations)
• 50 Marks Paper(Open Book Exam)

4. Chapter 1
Introduction

5. Architecture & Organization 1
• Architecture is those attributes visible to
the programmer
—Instruction set, number of bits used for data
representation, I/O mechanisms, addressing
techniques.
—e.g. Is there a multiply instruction?
• Organization is how features are
implemented
—Control signals, interfaces, memory
technology.
—e.g. Is there a hardware multiply unit or is it
done by repeated addition?

6. Architecture & Organization 2
• All Intel x86 family share the same basic
architecture
• The IBM System/370 family share the
same basic architecture
• This gives code compatibility
—At least backwards
• Organization differs between different
versions

7. Structure & Function
• Structure is the way in which components
relate to each other
• Function is the operation of individual
components as part of the structure

8. Function
• All computer functions are:
—Data processing
—Data storage
—Data movement
—Control

9. Functional View

10. Operations (a) Data movement

11. Operations (b) Storage

12. Operation (c) Processing from/to storage

13. Operation (d)
Processing from storage to I/O

14. Structure - Top Level
Computer
Main
Memory
Input
Output
Systems
Interconnection
Peripherals
Communication
lines
Central
Processing
Unit
Computer

15. Structure - The CPU
Computer Arithmetic
and
Login Unit
Control
Unit
Internal CPU
Interconnection
Registers
CPU
I/O
Memory
System
Bus
CPU

16. Structure - The Control Unit
CPU
Control
Memory
Control Unit
Registers and
Decoders
Sequencing
Login
Control
Unit
ALU
Registers
Internal
Bus
Control Unit

17. Outline of the Book (1)
• Computer Evolution and Performance
• Computer Interconnection Structures
• Internal Memory
• External Memory
• Input/Output
• Operating Systems Support
• Computer Arithmetic
• Instruction Sets

18. Outline of the Book (2)
• CPU Structure and Function
• Reduced Instruction Set Computers
• Superscalar Processors
• Control Unit Operation
• Microprogrammed Control
• Multiprocessors and Vector Processing
• Digital Logic (Appendix)

19. Internet Resources
- Web site for book
• http://WilliamStallings.com/COA/COA7e.html
—links to sites of interest
—links to sites for courses that use the book
—errata list for book
—information on other books by W. Stallings
• http://WilliamStallings.com/StudentSupport.html
—Math
—How-to
—Research resources
—Misc

20. Internet Resources
- Web sites to look for
• WWW Computer Architecture Home Page
• CPU Info Center
• Processor Emporium
• ACM Special Interest Group on Computer
Architecture
• IEEE Technical Committee on Computer
Architecture
• Intel Technology Journal
• Manufacturer’s sites
—Intel, IBM, etc.

21. Internet Resources
- Usenet News Groups
• comp.arch
• comp.arch.arithmetic
• comp.arch.storage
• comp.parallel