Digital Computer Fundamentals

Introduction  to  8085  microprocessor:  -  Organization  of  Microprocessor  based
system,  8085  µp  Architecture,  Concept  of  Address  line  and  Memory  interfacing,
Address  Decoding  and  Memory  Interfacing,  8085  Programming  Model,  Instruction
Classification,  Instruction  Format,  Stack  and  Subroutines,  Developing  Basic  8085
programs.

Introduction  Modern  day  Computer  Systems:  -  Organization  and  Architecture,
Structure and function.

System Buses: - Computer Components, Computer function, PCI: - Features of PCI
bus, Why PCI bus is needed? Concept of PCI Arbitration. 
Internal Memory: - Concept of Cache Memory, Methods of Cache Mapping, Concept
and need for Cache coherency. External Memory: - RAID. 

Input / Output - I/O Modules (What are I/O modules? Why do we require them? Etc.),
Concept of Programmed I/O, Concept of Interrupt Driver I/O, DMA 

Operating  System  Support:-  Basic  Concepts,  Batch,  Multiprogramming  and  Time-
Sharing, scheduling , Scheduling, Memory Management. 

CPU  Organization  -  Register  Organization  (Classification  of  registers),  Instruction
Cycle, Instruction Pipelining. 

Concept of Parallel processing: - Multiprocessing: - Organization, Time-Shared Bus,
Multiport memory, Central Control unit, Multi processors.