Expectations for Exam number 2

ICOM 4215: Computer Architecture and Organization

Spring 2012, Nayda Santiago

The student will understand chapters 1, 2 and 4 (up to section 4.4). Section 4.5 and on will be covered in the final exam. Chapter 3 was covered by a homework where student identified and worked on modern processor architectures.

The second exam is mostly design. Emphasis will be given to designing subcomponents of the processor.

Important concepts:

□ SRC

o ISA of SRC

□ Register Transfer Notation (RTN)

o RTN and Logic circuits (from behavior to hardware)

□ BUS

o Open collector

o Buffers

□ Processor Design

o Design Process

§ Data path

§ ALU

§ PC

§ IR

· Select Logic

§ Memory subsystem

§ Register File

§ Condition Logic

§ Shift Count

Exam on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:30pm to 2:20pm (50 minutes).