COMPUTER SCIENCE &
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Computer Organization
and Architecture
Comprehensive Theory
with Solved Examples and Practice Questions
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Computer Organization and Architecture
CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 4
Basics of Computer Design.......................... 3-54 Memory Hierarchy Design...................... 133-191
1.1 Computer System....................................................................... 3
4.1 Introduction............................................................................ 133
1.2 Data Storage in the Memory................................................11
4.2 Primary Memory.................................................................... 134
1.3 Machine Instructions...............................................................13
Student Assignments................................................................48 4.3 Associative Memory............................................................. 136
4.4 Address Space......................................................................... 136
CHAPTER 2
4.5 Cache Memory Design........................................................ 141
CPU Design..................................................... 55-88 Student Assignments............................................................. 178
2.1 Introduction...............................................................................55
2.2 Datapath......................................................................................57 CHAPTER 5
2.3 Control Unit................................................................................62
Input-Output and Secondary Storage.......192-232
2.4 Program Interrupt....................................................................80
5.1 Interface Design..................................................................... 192
2.5 Booth’s Algorithm.....................................................................81
Student Assignments................................................................84 5.2 Secondary Memory.............................................................. 209
Student Assignments............................................................. 226
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 6
Instruction Pipelining.................................89-132
3.1 Introduction...............................................................................89 Data Representation................................ 233-250
3.2 RISC Pipelining..........................................................................90
6.1 Fixed and Floating Point Formate................................... 233
3.3 Pipeline Hazards.......................................................................98
6.2 IEEE Floating-Point Number Representation............... 242
3.4 Pipeline Performance Analysis......................................... 110
6.3 Multiplying Floating-Point Numbers.............................. 244
3.5 Speedup.................................................................................... 112
Student Assignments............................................................. 119 Student Assignments............................................................. 246
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