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Syllabus
Review of Concepts of Computer Architecture: Study of an existing CPU: architecture, instruction set and the addressing modes, assembly language programming. Control unit Design: instruction interpretation, hardwired and micro-programmed methods of design. Pipelining and parallel processing, RISC and CISC paradigms, I/O Transfer techniques: programmed, interrupt-driven and DMA; Memory organization: hierarchical memory systems, cache memories, cache coherence, virtual memory.
Review of Concepts of Operating Systems: Processes, threads, Unix fork-exec model, Unix signals, synchronization, Inter process communication, scheduling, memory management.
Review of Concepts of Computer Networks: link layer protocols, local area networks (Ethernet and variants), routing, transport layer protocols. Concepts of distributed networked systems: Virtualization, distributed file systems, mass storage systems, recovery and fault tolerance, content networking including multimedia delivery.
Reference Books:
- A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin and G. Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 7th Ed, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
Operating System Concepts (7th Edition) (put.poznan.pl) - J. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top down approach, 3rd Ed, Pearson India, 2004.
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Edition (ucg.ac.me) - M. Singhal and N. Shivratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems, McGraw Hill, 1994.
- A. S. Tanenbaum and Van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Prentice Hall India, 2007.
- David A Patterson and John L Hennessy, Computer Organisation and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994. ISBN 1-55860-281-X.
Classes
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| Lecture # | Link To Class | Topic Covered | Remarks |
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| 1 | Class 1: 7 Aug 2023 | Instruction Set Architecture & Design | |
| 2 | Class 2: 11 Aug 2023 | Processing Unit Design | |
| 3 | class 3 : 14 Aug 2023 | Processing Unit Design Pipelining | |
| 4 | Class 4: 17 Aug 2023 | Pipelining | |
| 5 | Class 5: 18 Aug 2023 | RISC | |
| Weekend Doubt Clearing | Weekend Class : 19 Aug 2023 | ||
| 6 | Class 6: 21 Aug 2023 | Problem Solving Class | |
| 7 | Class 7: 23 Aug 2023 | Fundamentals of Computer System | |
| 8 | Class 8: 25 Aug 2023 | ||
| 9 | Class 9: 31 Aug 2023 | ||
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