EE2012 – COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & ARCHITECTURE

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER & EMERGING SCIENCES, FAST-NU

EE2012 – Computer Organization & Architecture

The goal of this course is to develop a clear understanding of the basic organization of computing systems. It covers logical basis of computer structure, machine
representation of instructions and data, flow of control and basic machine instructions. It also includes processor pipeline designs and memory hierarchy systems.

Statement Attainment
CLO Score→ Exemplary (5) Proficient (4) Developing (3) Beginning (2) Novice (1)
↓ Target
Identify Correctly identify
Appraise working of a Correctly identify Correctly identify Has difficulty labelling
1 Components/Blocks of function of computer 3
computer system. interconnections. computer components. block diagram.
a computer. elements
Has difficulty
Compare elements of a Assemble computer Design cache memory Appraise the integrity Correctly identify
2 understanding memory 4
memory system. memory system hierarchy of stored data. memory components.
hierarchy.
Correctly apply Appraise
Analyze components Correctly apply Appraise integer Has difficulty
arithmetic operations representation of
3 of computer arithmetic operations representation in understanding 3
on floating point floating point numbers
arithmetic. on integers. computer. computer arithmetic.
numbers. in computer.
Appraise Appraise operations of Appraise types of Has difficulty
Appraise instruction Identify elements of
4 characteristics of common instruction operations in machine understanding 3
set design parameters. machine instructions.
machine instructions. set. instructions. computer instructions.
Appraise construction Evaluate performance Has difficulty
Optimize instruction Assemble elements of Appraise CPU register
5 of central processing enhancement by understanding CPU 3
pipeline. CPU instruction cycle. organization.
unit. instruction pipeline. structure.

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