CSE211: Computer Organization and Design

• Course code CSE211 covers computer organization and design
• It has a credit weighting of L:3, T:1, P:0, Credits:4

Course Outcomes

• Apply knowledge of computing fundamentals, hardware components, and operating systems to set up, configure, and troubleshoot various computing environments.
• Trace digital systems principles and implementation strategies for efficient digital electronics solutions.
• Analyze sequential circuits by integrating combinational and sequential logic components.
• Understand instruction set architectures and their impact on CPU performance and assembly language programming.
• Analyze and optimize memory management and cache performance.
• Articulate advanced pipelining and parallelism techniques.

Unit I: Hardware and Operating Systems

• Introduction to Computing Fundamentals
• Includes computing devices and peripherals
• Topics: Interfaces and Connectors and Internal Computer Components
• Windows workstation setup, evaluation, and troubleshooting
• Exploring desktop and mobile operating systems

Unit II: Digital Systems

• Digital Systems, Digital System Description, and Digital Electronics Systems
• Processor Specification
• Includes examples of programs
• Combinational Circuits I covers Combinational Circuits and Boolean Algebra
• Includes NAND NOR XOR and TRI-States
• Functional and structural specification
• VerilUOC_Desktop tools: Introduction to VerilUOC_Desktop (I), Logisim and VerilCirc
• Introduction to VerilUOC_Desktop (II)
• BoolMin and VerilChart
• combinational Circuits II: Synthesis tools, propagation time, other logic blocks
• Discusses programming language structures and structure specification
• Arithmetic components
• Introduction to VHDL
• Large multiprocessors utilizes Directory Protocols

Unit III: Sequential Circuits

• Sequential Circuits I covers: Sequential Circuits, Latches, and flip-flops
• Explicit Functional Description and Synthesis from the table
• Includes an example of synthesis
• Combinational blocks, Sequential blocks
• Sequential Circuits II pertains to Registers, Counters and Memories
• Also covers sequential blocks and Finite State Machines, alongside examples
• Sequential implementation of algorithms and instructions

Unit IV: Instruction Set Architecture

• Introduction to Instruction Set Architecture and Microcode
• Includes Architecture & Microcode and Machine Models
• ISA characteristics and Pipeline Review
• Micro coded Microarchitecture
• Pipeline basics, including Structural and data Hazards
• Cache Review: Control hazards such as jump, branch, others
• Superscalar1: Classifying Caches
• Cache Performance and two-way in ordering superscalar
• Fetch logic and alignment

Unit V: Memory Management

• Memory Protection
• Introduction to base &bound registers and page-based memory systems
• Translation and protection, TLB processing
• Superscalar2 & Exception: Interrupts, exceptions & by-passing, out-of-order processors
• Superscalar3: I2O2, I2O1, IO3, IO2I processor
• Superscalar4, VLIW1, and VLIW2
• Branch Prediction

Unit VI: Pipelining

• Advanced Caches-I: Cache pipelining, Write buffers, multilevel caches, victim caches, and prefetching
• Advanced Caches-II: Software memory optimization, non-blocking caches
• Vector processors and GPUs: Introduction, hardware optimization, vector software, and compiler optimization
• Multithreading: SIMD, GPUs, and coarse-grained multithreading
• Parallel Programming-I: Introduction, Sequential consistency, and Locks
• Parallel Programming-II: Atomic operations, memory fences, lock and semaphores
• Small Multiprocessors: bus implementation and cache coherence protocols.

Reference Textbook

• Computer System Architecture by M. Morris Mano, Rajib Mall, Pearson