901320 Computer Architecture

من طرف **قصي** الإثنين يوليو 14, 2008 3:19 pm

Introduction, computer organization, arithmetic and logic unit, memory units and addressing, input/output units, data transfer channels and interface units; hardwired and microprogrammed control units, machine language and assembly language programming

<tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1. The difference between computer organization and computer architecture 2. Units of measure common to computer systems. 3. The evolution of computers. 4. The computer as a layered system. 5. Thee von Neumann architecture and the function of basic computer components <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.The fundamentals of numerical data representation and manipulation in digital computers. 2.Converting between various radix systems. 3.How errors can occur in computations because of overflow and truncation. 4.The fundamental concepts of floating-point representation. 5.Character codes. 6.Error detecting and correcting codes. <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.Relationship between Boolean logic and digital computer circuits. 2.Design simple logic circuits. 3.How digital circuits work together to form complex computer systems <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.Components common to every modern computer system. 2.A simple architecture invented to illuminate these basic computer concepts, and how it relates to some real architectures. 3.Program assembly process . <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.Factors involved in instruction set architecture design. 2.Memory addressing modes. 3.Concepts of instruction-level pipelining and its affect upon execution performance. <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.Registers 2.Cache 3.Main Memory 4.Rigid Disks 5.Virtual Memory 6.Optical Disk 7.Magnatic Tape <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.I/O methods and architectures. 2.Storage media, and the differences in their respective formats. 3.RAID systems 4.Emerging data storage technologies <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.Functions provided by operating systems, programming tools, database software and transaction managers 2.Role played by each software component in maintaining the integrity of a computer system and its data <tr bgColor=#ffffff><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 30px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 20px">1.RISC and CISC architectures. 2.Multiprocessor architectures.

Introduction

Data Representation in Computer Systems

Boolean Algebra and Digital Logic

MARIE: An Introduction to a Simple Computer

A Closer Look at Instruction Set Architectures

Memory Organization

Input/Output and Storage Systems

System Software

Alternative Architectures

Performance Measurement and Analysis

1.Performance measurement 2.Common benchmarks and their limitations. 3.Factors that contribute to improvements in CPU and disk performance.