عمارة الحاسب

Module Description:        

This course focuses on the design of the CPU and computer system at the architectural (or functional) level: CPU instruction sets and functional units, data types, control unit design, interrupt handling and DMA, I/O support, memory hierarchy, virtual memory, and buses and bus timing. Introduction to digital systems: What constitutes a general-purpose computer; design of a minimal hardwired CPU. Assembly level machine organization: System buses, timing, arbitration, and bus protocol; the general fetch-execute cycle with interrupts; multiple bus systems. Memory system organization & architecture: Memory design and hierarchy; alignment; L1 and L2 caches; paging and virtual memory. Interfacing, communication External storage devices: magnetic and optical. Buffering of I/O, polling, interrupt-driven I/O, interrupt-driven I/O with DMA. Functional organization: integer and floating-point units, CPU instruction sets and addressing modes, RISC; CISC, long instruction word RISC processors, use of multiple functional units, pipelining.

Module Aims:   

This course focuses on the design of the CPU and computer system at the architectural level.

Learning Outcomes:                                                 

·         Understand all the basic concepts of information technology and its related terminologies.

·         The ability to search through the Internet effectively.

·         The ability to fully utilize an e/mail service

·         Knowledge of e/learning and distance education systems and how they work and their benefits

·         This course requires the student to demonstrate the following

·         Apply the factors that contribute to computer performance

·         Identify the characteristics of CISCS, RISC, and VLIW processors.

·         Analyze multilevel caches systems

·         Analyze the effect of memory and memory hierarchy on performance.

·         Analyze Input/output systems.

·         Identify the characteristics of multicore, multiprocessors, and clusters

Textbook:                                                                  

William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture (6th edition) Hennessy / Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach