Test 1 Syllabus

CSCE 5610/4610: Computer Architecture

Instructor: Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty

NOTE: This is closed book/text examination.

1. Basics of Computer Architecture and Organization
2. Five classic components of a computer
3. Moore’s Law
4. Different levels of representation of a program
5. Basics of machine instruction
6. Instruction categories of MIPS processor
7. Various instruction architecture design principles
8. Stored program concept
9. Memory organization: big-endian / little-endian
10. Addressing modes
11. Number representation
12. Construction of 32-bit ALU
13. Algorithms/Architectures for binary addition/multiplication/division
14. IEEE 754 floating-point representation
15. Floating-point addition/multiplication algorithms/architectures