Computer Organization and Architecture

Computer Organization

Professor Mazad Zaveri

About Course: The course covers: Architecture of micro-computer/Central Processing Unit (CPU); Concept of Instruction Set Architecture. Understanding the building blocks of micro-computer: Data memory, Instruction Memory, Register Set, Address decoding, Arithmetic-logic Unit (ALU), timing pulse generator, Program Counter (PC), Stack Memory and stack pointers, I/O registers, control unit (Hardwired Control, Microprogrammed-ROM based Control), etc.

Project: Design a simple RISC processor using a digital logic simulation tool (Logisim) and Verilog HDL.