Test 1 Syllabus

CSCE 2610: Computer Organization

Instructor: Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty

NOTE: This is closed book/text examination.

1. Basics of Digital Computer
2. Types of Computers
3. Hardware / Software layers
4. Instruction set architecture
5. Instruction execution cycle
6. Five components of digital computers
7. Concept of microprocessor
8. Processor trend
9. Chip manufacturing process
10. Instruction categories in MIPS
11. Instruction set design principles of MIPS
12. Registers in MIPS
13. Register versus memory
14. Stored program concept
15. Memory organization
16. MIPS assembly language
17. MIPS machine instruction format
18. Concept of stack pointer
19. MIPS addressing modes
20. Translation Hierarchy for C and JAVA