1. To understand the basic structure and operation of a digital computer.
2. To understand the operations of System bus and handling of I/O Devices.
3. To understand the hierarchical memory system and performance considerations.
4. To gain the knowledge on the design of Arithmetic Logic Unit of digital computer.
5. To understand the design of processing unit & the concepts of pipelining.
Course Outcomes
1. Write the structure of different functional parts of a digital computer system, Analyze the performance of the computer and concepts of machine programming.
2. Explain I/O organization and interrupt handling.
3. Explain the memory types and organization.
4. Explain and write circuit / algorithm for arithmetic unit.
5. Explain Processing Unit and its role.
VTU Syllabus, Author Slides and Old Question Papers