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]

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.