Computer Organization and Architecture

Computer Organization and Architecture: The science and art of designing, selecting, and interconnecting hardware components and designing the hardware/software interface to create a computing system that meets functional, performance, energy consumption, cost, and other specific goals.

(03-08-2022) -- [Lecture 1] Course Introduction and Course Structure -  [Video Lecture]

(04-08-2022) -- [Lecture 2] Levels of Transformation, Cross Compilation -  [Video Lecture]

[Asssignment 1] - Due Date 15 August 

(05-08-2022) -- [Lecture 3]  What is Architecture and Organization? Computing models: Von Neumann model, Register Based, Registers  -  [Video Lecture]

H/W: Learn about the express Memory

Summarize the paper "Memory Performance Attacks: Denial of Memory Service in Multi-Core Systems"

(08-08-2022) -- [Lecture 4]  Control FLow and DataFlow Models, Memory Organization, Load-store and Memory-Memory architectures  -  [Video Lecture]

(10-08-2022) -- [Lecture 5]  Instruction set Architecture and its components. Microarchitecture and its components  -  [Video Lecture]

(11-08-2022) -- [Lecture 6]  Addressing modes: Register/Memory direct and indirect modes, AutoIncrement, Autodecrement, Immediate, PC relative, and base-index offset  -  [Video Lecture]

(12-08-2022) -- [Lecture 7] Representation of Numbers in Decimal, Octal, Hexadecimal and Binary, signed binary number representation, Floating Point Numbers -  [Video Lecture1] [Video Lecture2][Video Lecture3]

(17-08-2022) -- [Lecture 8] Computer Arithmetic: Binary Addition and Subtraction, Ripple carry adder, Carry Lookahead adder - [Video Lecture]

H/W: Derive the complexity of CSA and CLA.

(18-08-2022) -- [Lecture 9] Computer Arithmetic: Multiplication of Binary Numbers, Iterative Algorithm, Booths Algorithm - [Video Lecture]

(22-08-2022) --  [Lecture 10] Computer Arithmetic: Binary Division, Restoring Division Algorithm, Non-Restoring Division Algorithm [Video Lecture]

[ASSISGNMENT 2] Design the circuits for the addition, multiplication and division using logism or using any HDL.

(24-08-2022) --  [Lecture 11] Arithmetic operations for floating-point numbers, Truncation: Chopping, Von Neumann Rounding, and rounding - [Video Lecture]

(25-08-2022) -- [Lecture 12] Introduction to RISC V ISA and Base Integer Version -  [Video Lecture]

(25-08-2022) -- [Lecture 13] RV32I Instructions: R/I/S Format instructions -  [Video Lecture1][Video Lecture2]

(26-08-2022) -- [Lecture 14] RV32I instructions: U/SB/UJ Format instructions, RISCV assembly programs -  [Video Lecture1][Video Lecture2]

(29-08-2022) --  [Lecture 15] Compilation Flow: Compiler, Assembler, Linker and Loader [Video Lecture]

[ASSISGNMENT 3] Design an assembler for RV32I programs.

(30-08-2022) -- [Lecture 16] Digital Logic: Switching Networks, NMOS and PMOS Transistors, Logic Gates, Combinational Circuits  -  [Video Lecture]

(01-09-2022) -- [Lecture 17] Digital Logic: Combinational Logic, Sequential Logic, Registers, SRAM memories - [Video Lecture]

(05-09-2022) -- [Lecture 18] Digital Logic: SRAM Arrays, DRAM Memory, Refresh Logic, ROM, PROM - [Video Lecture]

(12-09-2022) -- [Lecture 19]  -- Processor Design: RISC V  DataPath, Control Path, Fetch Stage, and Decode Stage  - [Video Lecture]

(14-09-2022) -- [Lecture 20] -- Processor Design: Decode, Execute, Memory Access, and Register Write-back Stage - [Video Lecture]

(16-09-2022) -- [Lecture 21] -- Processor Design: Design of Control Path, Hardwired and Microprogrammed Control, Horizontal and Vertical Microprogramming - [Video Lecture]

(19-09-2022) -- [Lecture 22] -- Single-Cycle and Multi-Cycle Processors, Thermal Breakdown, Performance Equation - [Video Lecture]

(21-09-2022) -- [Lecture 23] -- Processor Pipelining: Uniform Pipeline, Ideal Pipeline, Pipeline Diagram, 5-stage pipeline - [Video Lecture]

(05-10-2022) -- [Lecture 24] -- Pipeline Hazards: Data Hazard, Control Hazard, and Structural Hazard - [Video Lecture]

(06-10-2022) -- [Lecture 25] -- Handling RAW Hazards: Software Solution, Dependency-Check Logic, and Scoreboarding - [Video Lecture]

(07-10-2022) -- [Lecture 26] -- Hardware Solution for handling RAW Dependency - Data Forwarding - [Video Lecture]

(10-10-2022) -- [Lecture 27] -- Handling Control Hazards - Stalling Pipeline, Delayed Branching, Branch Prediction - [Video Lecture]

(12-10-2022) -- [Lecture 28] -- Pipeline Hazards Summary | Precise interrupts | Performance Evaluation - [Video Lecture]

(13-10-2022) -- [Lecture 29]  -- Memory System: On-chip and Off-chip Memory, Principle of Locality, Need of Caches -  [Video Lecture]

(17-10-2022) -- [Lecture 30]  -- Cache Mapping Techniques: Direct Mapping - [Video Lecture]

(18-10-2022) -- [Lecture 31] -- Cache Mapping Techniques: Fully Associative Mapping, and Set Associative Mapping - [Video Lecture]

(19-10-2022) -- [Lecture 32] -- Cache Operations, Write-back, and Write-Through Cache, Cache Misses: Compulsory, Capacity, and Conflict Misses, Cache Optimisations: Write Buffer, and Early restart - [Video Lecture]

(31-11-2022) -- [Lecture 33]  -- Virtual Memory: Overlap Problem, Size Problem, Virtual Memory Map, Virtual Address, Physical Address, Segmentation - [Virtual Mem] [Segmentation]

(03-11-2022) -- [Lecture 34]  -- Paging, Page-Tables - Single level, multi-level and Inverted, Translation LookAside Buffer - [Paging] 

(04-11-2022) -- [Lecture 35]  -- Introduction to Multiprocessors, Asymmetric and Symmetric Multiprocessing, Loosely Coupled and Tightly coupled multiprocessors, Multicores - [Multiprocessors] 

(07-11-2022) -- [Lecture 36]  -- Flynn's classification: SISD, SIMD, MISD, MIMD, Multithreading: coarse-grained, fine-grained, and simultaneous multithreading - [Video Lecture] 

(14-11-2022) -- [Lecture 37]  -- MIMD Systems: Coherence and Consistency, Sequentially consistent memory model 

(16-11-2022) -- [Lecture 38]  -- Cache Coherence: Snoopy Protocol and Directory-Based Protocol 

(17-11-2022) -- [Lecture 39]  -- Interconnection Networks: Bisection Bandwidth, Network Diameter, Network Topologies