10MCA13 Fundamentals of Computer Organization syllabus for MCA


Unit-1 Number Systems and Logic Gates 7 hours

Counting in Decimal and Binary, Place Value, Binary to Decimal Conversion, Decimal to Binary Conversion,Hexadecimal Numbers, Octal Numbers, Bits, Bytes, Nibbles, and Word Size, The AND Gate, The OR gate, Theinverter and Buffer, The NAND gate, the NOR Gate, The exclusive OR gate, The Exclusive NOR Gates, TheNAND Gate as an universal Gate, Gates with More than two inputs, Using Inverters to convert gates.

Unit-2 Combining Logic Gates and Arithmetic Circuits 9 hours

Constructing Circuits from Boolean Expression, Drawing a circuit from a Maxterm Boolean Expression, TruthTables and Boolean Expressions, Sample Problem Simplifying BooleanExpression, Karnaugh Maps, KarnaughMaps with three variables, Karnaugh Maps with four variables, more Karnaugh Maps, using Demorgan’sTheorem, Binary Addition, Half Adders, Full Adders, Three BitAdders, Binary Subtraction, ParallelSubtractors, IC Adders, Binary Multiplication,Binary Multipliers, 2s Complement Notation, Addition and Subtraction, 2s Complement adders/subtractor

Unit-3 Basic Structure of Computer 6 hours

Computer Types, Functional Units, Basic Operational Concepts, Bus structures, Performance, Memory Locationand Addresses

Unit-4 Machine Instruction and Programmes 8 hours

Memory Operations, Instructions & Instruction Sequencing, Addressing Modes, Assemble Language, BasicInput/Output Operations

Unit-5 Input/Output Organization 8 hours

Accessing I/O Devices, Interrupts, Direct Memory Accesses, Buses 240, Interface Circuits

Unit-6 Memory Systems 8 hours

Some Basics concepts, Semiconductors RAM Memories, Read-Only Memories, Cache Memories, VirtualMemories

Unit-7 Arithmetic Unit 6 hours

Addition & subtraction of Signed Numbers, Design of Fast adders, Multiplication of Positive Numbers, Signed-Operand Multiplication, Fast Multiplication, Integer divisionFloating-Point Numbers & Operations

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