Computer Architecture and Organization

Computer Architecture and Organization

taught by Dr. Ken Williams

Computer Science department of North Carolina A&T State University

This course explores the design of computer systems and their architectures. Topics include central processing unit architecture, microcode, system interconnections, memory systems, input/output systems, interrupt handling, peripherals and communications networks

Textbook

The textbook for COMP375 Computer Architecture and Organization during the Fall 2008 semester is:

Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, Seventh Edition,
by William Stallings, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN: 0131856448

Slides

an Introduction to Architecture

History of Computers Additional information

Assembler Language Additional information

More assembler

Still more assembler

Assembler function calls

Machine language

Memory Access modes

Digital logic

VLSI transistors

Arithmetic

Interrupts

Buses

Memory Technology

Memory Organization

Cache Systems

Cache Mapping

Virtual Memory

Disk operation

RAID disks

I/O controllers

Backing up your data

Microcode 1

Microcode 2

Microcode 3

Microcode 4

Pipelining

Superscalar processors

RISC

Parallel Architectures

SMP Architectures

Benchmarking

Security

Combinatorial Logic

Sequential Logic

Number Representation

Microcode Animation

Microcode Examples PDF format

Cache Simulation PDF format

Example assembler program

Notes on the Powers of 2

Notes on Metric Prefixes

Notes on Byte Ordering

Compulator Simulation