CSE211 Computer Organization Overview

Course Overview: CSE211 Computer Organization and Design

• Course Credits: 4 (3 Lecture hours, 1 Tutorial hour)
• Focuses on computing fundamentals, hardware components, operating systems, digital systems design, instruction set architectures, memory management, and pipelining/parallelism techniques.

Course Outcomes (COs)

• CO1: Setup, configuration, and troubleshooting of computing environments.
• CO2: Development of efficient digital electronics solutions.
• CO3: Analysis and design of sequential circuits using combinational and sequential logic.
• CO4: Understanding of instruction set architectures and their impact on CPU performance and assembly language programming.
• CO5: Analysis and optimization of memory management and cache performance.
• CO6: Understanding of advanced pipelining and parallelism techniques for enhanced processor performance.

Unit I: Introduction to Hardware and Operating Systems

• Covers computing fundamentals, devices, peripherals, interfaces, internal components.
• Includes Windows workstation setup, evaluation, troubleshooting, and exploration of other desktop/mobile operating systems.

Unit II: Digital Systems

• Introduces digital systems, their description, and digital electronics systems.
• Covers combinational circuits, Boolean algebra (NAND, NOR, XOR, TRI-states), functional/structural specifications.
• Uses VerilUOC_Desktop tools (including Logisim, VerilCirc, BoolMin, VerilChart) for design and analysis.
• Explores synthesis tools, propagation time, arithmetic components, and introduction to VHDL.
• Includes a section on large multiprocessors and directory protocols.

Unit III: Sequential Circuits

• Covers sequential circuits, latches, flip-flops, explicit functional descriptions.
• Includes registers, counters, memories, finite state machines, and their implementation.
• Discusses sequential implementation of algorithms and instruction control circuits.
• Details physical implementation, implementation strategies, synthesis tools, testing, and design methods.
• Covers multiprocessor interconnect.

Unit IV: Instruction Set Architecture

• Introduces instruction set architecture (ISA), microcode, machine models, and ISA characteristics.
• Reviews pipelining basics, structural and data hazards.
• Reviews cache performance and classification.
• Covers control hazards (jumps, branches), superscalar architectures, and fetch logic/alignment.

Unit V: Memory Management

• Covers memory protection (base & bound registers, page-based systems, translation, protection, TLB processing).
• Discusses interrupts, exceptions, bypassing, out-of-order processors.
• Explores superscalar architectures (I2O2, I2O1, IO3, IO2I), VLIW architectures, and branch prediction.

Unit VI: Pipelining and Advanced Topics

• Covers advanced caches (cache pipelining, write buffers, multilevel caches, victim caches, prefetching).
• Discusses software memory optimization, non-blocking caches.
• Introduces vector processors and GPUs, including hardware/software/compiler optimization.
• Covers multithreading (SIMD, GPUs, coarse-grained multithreading).
• Discusses parallel programming (sequential consistency, locks, atomic operations, memory fences, semaphores).
• Covers small multiprocessors and cache coherence protocols.

Textbook

• Computer System Architecture by M. (Author's last name is missing from the provided text)

This quiz covers key concepts in computer organization and design as outlined in the CSE211 course. Students will explore hardware components, operating systems, digital systems design, and instruction set architectures, focusing on their implications for performance. Prepare to demonstrate your understanding of both fundamentals and advanced techniques.