Architecture, Operating Systems, Parallel Computing

 (Software/Hardware Interface)

 

CSC445: Description, Objective, Text
 

Description

 

Digital logic, instruction set architectures, microprocessor design; storage management, process synchronization and communications, device management; introduction to parallel architectures, languages and algorithms.

 

Objectives

·        To relate software processing to hardware execution.

·        To study structures and functions of CPU, Control Unit, Memory, Storage devices, Input/output, and system buses of computer hardware systems. 

·        To gain basic concepts of parallel processing.  

Text

Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance,
Sixth Edition, by William Stallings, 2002.

 

Topics:

 

Topics	Reading Chapter	Approximate No. of class
Part I Operating system support
Operating System Support	(Software/Hardware Interface)
Part II Computer Components and Functions
Computer Arithmetic	8	1
Digital Logic	App. A	1
Control Unit Operation	14	1
Computer Components and Functions	1, 3	1
System Buses	3	2
Memory hierarchy & Internal Memory	4	2
External Memory (Storage Devices)	5	1
Input/Output	6	2
(CSC550A) Part III CPU and Parallel Processing
Computer Evolution	2	1
Instruction Sets (Characteristics & Functions)	9	2
Instruction Sets (Addressing modes & Formats)	10	2
CPU structure and function, RISC	11/12	2
Instruction-Level Parallelism and Superscalar Processors	13	2
Parallel Processing	16	2
Parallel Languages and Interfaces	Sup.	1