First day Introduction

Lecture 01

COA by Athar Mohsin

 About Instructor
• My introduction
– Name
– Education
– Teaching Experience
– Specialization
• My contacts
– Cell phone (only incase of emergency)
• 0333-5193236
– E-mail (to send quires, question and doubts)
• atharmohsin@gmail.com

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 Your turn
• Name
• GPA
• Previous knowledge of subject
• Any programming language
– Assembly language

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 About the Course
• Course Title “Computer Organization and
Architecture”
– Subject Code CS 212
– Pre Requisites: Digital Logic Design (CS211)
– Credits 3
– Contact Hrs: 3

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 About Text and Ref book
• Computer Organization and Architecture
– Essentials of Computer Organization & Architecture
• “Linda Null”
– Reference Book
• Computer Architecture and Organization
– 6th edition – “William Stallings”
• Computer System Architecture
– 3rd edition – “M.Morris Mano”

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 Important Information

• Examinations & Grading:

– Sessional 20%
• Quizzes : 5-6 graded – 10 marks
• Assignments: 5-6 - 5 marks
• Term Paper and presentations – 5 marks
– Mid term 30%
– Final Exam 50 %

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 Description

• In-depth description of the computer Organization

and Architecture that includes:
– Main components, data representation, ISA (instruction
set architecture), bus architecture, memory and I/O
interfacing, interrupt handling, memory and IO addressing
network organization etc

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 Goals
• Students should be able to understand the
hardware needed to run the software in a
microcomputer systems
• They should have an in-depth understanding of
– Designing of the components
– Data representation
– bus buffering techniques
– memory, microprocessor-supporting chips:
• Clock Generator and Driver, Bus Controller, USART, DMA
Controller

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 Objectives

• Upon completion of the course, the student

should be able to:
– Describe the operation and interaction between the
CPU, memory and I/O ports
– Gain understanding of the hardware of computer
architecture, bus architecture, memory map, I/O’s and
interfacing devices.

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 Outline of the course

• Introduction to Computer Organization and

Architecture
– Computer Evolution and Performance
– Computer components and functions
– Computer Interconnection Structures
– Bus interconnection
– Execution Unit
– Registers, ALU, CU
– Types of Microprocessor (CISC, RISC)

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 Contents of the course
• Memory Type
– Internal Memory
– External Memory
– Organization and design of Memory
• Input/Output types
– Ports and designing
• Operating Systems Support
• Network architecture
• Instruction Sets

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 Class notes and lecture format

•Power-point slides,
•Post-lecture notes will be available, same day after
the class
•Major portion of the lectures is taken from the
book

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 Background expected

• Logic Design
• Combinational logic, sequential logic
• logic minimization
• Components-multiplexers, memory units, ALU,
Decoder etc

•Number representations

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 Term Paper
• Individual Research Paper
– To impart training to write/ present tech papers
– To agitate the minds to search and explore stuff and latest
trends in the field
• Topics along with abstract are invited by third week and
term paper will be submitted in 13th week
– During 7th week progress presentation on the paper
• Term paper presentation in last three weeks
• Important to note
– Questions will be asked from some selected term papers in the
final exam/viva-voice
– No reminder will be issued for the submission of the paper
– 5 marks will be awarded on:
• Timely submission, originality and relevance
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 General Rules
• Students should attend all classes
– 80% attendance is must
• Student should not miss any Exams,
– student will be assigned a zero mark in any Exam or quiz (including
the final ) for which he or she was absent without an accepted excuse
– No retest, or makeup quiz
• Attendance will be recorded at random intervals or at the
beginning of each lecture,
– instructor reserve the right not to allow any student who comes late
into the classroom
• The instructor may choose to assign quizzes for immediate
verification of student understanding of selected concepts;
– therefore you must be present to avail this benefit.
• NO DISTURBANCE IN CLASS, NO PHONE RINGING, NO
LATE JOINING
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