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Module - Contents
1 Introduction to Pipelined Processors:
Pipelining: An Overlapped Parallelism, Linear pipelining,
Classification of Pipelined Processors, Principles of designing
pipeline processor, Data Flow computers,
Systolic architecture, Superscalar, Super pipeline and VLI W
processors.
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2 Intel 80386DX Processor:
Detailed study of Block diagram, Signal interfaces, Bus cycles,
Programming model, Operating modes, Address translation
mechanism in protected mode, Memory management, Protection
mechanism.
3 Intel P5 Micro architecture:
Pentium Processor Block diagram, Superscalar operation,
Integer pipeline Stages , Floating point pipeline stages, Branch
prediction logic, Cache unit.
4 Intel P6 Micro architectures:
Introduction to Pentium-Pr o Processor, Special Pentium-Pro
features,
Introduction to Pentium-2 Processor, Pentium-2 software
changes, Pentium-3 processors.
5 Pentium-4 & IA-64 Architectures:
Pentium-4 Net Burst Architecture, IA-64 Itanium Processor
architecture
6 Sun SPARC Architecture:
SPARC Processor, Data Formats, Registers, Memory model.
Study of
SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC architectures
7 Study of System Buses:
Features, classifications, applications of the system buses like I
SA, ATA,
SCSI, PCI and USB. (Study of the buses is without signals and
the timing
diagrams),
BOOKS
1) Computer Architecture and Parallel Procesing: By Hwang & Briggs ( McGr aw
Hill
International edition).
2) Pentium Processor System Architecture: By Tom Shanley & Don Anderson
(Mindshare
Publishing).
3) Intel Microprocessors: By Barry B. Brey (Pearson Education)
4) Advanced Microprocessor: By Roy & Bhurchandi (Tata McGraw Hill).
5) Advanced Microprocessors: By Daniel Tabak (McGraw Hill)
6) The SPARC Architecture Manual (Version 8).
7) Intel Manuals.
Computer Architecture and Parallel Procesing: By Hwang & Briggs ( McGr aw
Hill International edition).
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Computer_architecture_and_parallel_proce.html?id=bN9QAAAAMAAJ
Pentium Processor System Architecture: By Tom Shanley & Don Anderson
(Mindshare Publishing).
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=TVzjEZg1--YC
Intel Microprocessors: By Barry B. Brey (Pearson Education)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=P1jsNwAACAAJ
Advanced Microprocessor: By Roy & Bhurchandi (Tata McGraw Hill).
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KJNpD2KimEsC
80386 and 80486
Internal Architecture
http://ecourses.vtu.ac.in/nptel/courses/Webcourse-contents/IISc-BANG/Microprocessors%20and%20Microcontrollers/pdf/module8.pdf
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