PART-A

1. Register Transfer and Microoperations: Register transfer language & operations, arithmetic

microoperations, logic microoperations, shift microoperations, arithmetic logic shift unit. Design of a complete

basic computer and its working. [5]

2. Basic Computer Organisation and Design: Instruction codes, Computer registers, Computer Instructions,

Timing and control, Instruction Cycle, Memory reference instructions, Input/ Output and Interrupt, Design of

basic Computer, Design of Accumulator Logic. [6]

3. Design of Control Unit: Control memory, design of control unit - microprogrammed, hardwired, and their

comparative study. [3]

4. Central Processing Unit: General Register Organisation, Stack Organisation, Instruction formats, Addressing

Modes, Data transfer and manipulations, Program control, RISC and CISC architecture. [6]

PART-B

5. Input-Output Organisation: Peripheral devices, I/O Interface, asynchronous data transfer, modes of transfer,

priority interrupt, DMA, I/O processor, serial communication. [5]

6. Memory Organisation: Memory hierarchy, main memory, auxiliary memory, associative memory, cache

memory, virtual memory, memory management hardware. [6]

7. Advanced concepts of Computer Architecture: Concept of pipeline, Arithmetic pipeline, Instruction , vector

processors and array processors. Introduction to parallel processing, Interprocessor communication &

synchronization.