Certificate Course in Computer Application [CICA]

Computer Architecture Organization(CAO)

CCA(CERTIFICATE IN COMPUTER APPLICATION)

Syllabus Of Computer Architecture organization(CAO).

Unit 1

• Introduction to Computer Organization: Introduction to Computer and CPU (Computer Organization,
• Computer Design and Computer Architecture),
• Stored Program Concept- Von Neumann Architecture.
• Register Transfer Language
• Register Transfer
• Bus and Memory Transfers
• Micro operations
• Introduction to micro operations
• Types of micro operations
• Arithmetic microoperation
• Logic Operations
• Shift operations

Unit 2

• Basic Computer Instructions-
• Introduction to Instruction
• Types of Instructions
• Memory Reference,
• I/O Reference and Register Reference
• Instruction Cycle,
• Instruction Formats
• Direct and Indirect Address
• Instructions 
• Zero Address
• One Address
• Two Address and Three Address Instructions
• Addressing Modes.
• Difference between RISC and CISC.
• Design of Control Unit:
• Introduction to Control Unit
• Types of Control Unit
• Hardwired & Microprogrammed Control Unit.

Unit 3

• I/O Organization:
• I/O Interface Unit
• Types of ports (I/O port, Network Port, USB port, Serial and Parallel
• Port)
• Concept of I/O bus
• Isolated I/O versus Memory Mapped I/O. I/O
• Data Transfer Techniques:
• Programmed I/O
• Interrupt Initiated I/O
• DMA Controller and IOP
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Data
• Transfer
• Concept of strobe and handshaking
• source and destination-initiated data transfer.

Unit 4

• Memory Organization:
• Memory Hierarchy
• Main Memory
• RAM and ROM chips
• Logical and Physical
• Addresses( Memory Address Map)
• Memory Connection to CPU
• Associative Memory
• Cache Memory
• Initialization of Cache Memory
• Writing data into Cache
• Locality of Reference
• Hit Ratio
• Replacement Algorithms (LRU and FIFO).
• Cache Memory Mapping Techniques:
• Direct Mapping,
• Associative Mapping
• Set Associative Mapping.