UNIT I: GATE NETWORKS AND LOGIC DESIGN - FLIP-FLOPS - RS FLIP-FLOP - D FLIP-FLOP - K FLIP-FLOP - REGISTERS - PARALLEL-IN-PARALLEL-OUT - SERIAL-IN-SERIAL-OUT - PARALLEL-IN-SERIAL-OUT - SERIAL-IN-PARALLEL-OUT - COUNTER - SYNCHRONOUS COUNTER - ASYNCHRONOUS COUNTER - ARITHMETIC & LOGIC UNIT - ADDER DESIGNS.
2. DIGITAL CIRCUITS & DESIGN - S.SALIVHANANAN, S.ARIVAZHAGAN - VIKAS PUBLICATING HOUSE PVT LTD,2002.
UNIT II: PROCESSING UNIT - FUNDAMENTALS CONCEPTS - EXECUTION OF A COMPLETER INSTRUCTION - MULTIPLE BUS ORGANIZATION - HARDWARE CONTROL - MICRO PROGRAMMED CONTROL.
UNIT III: I/O ORGANIZATION - ACCESSING I/O DEVICES - INTERRUPTS, DMA-BUSES-INTERFACE CIRCUITS - STANDARD I/O INTERFACES.
UNIT IV: MEMORY - BASIC CONCEPTS - RAM - ROM - CACHE MEMORIES - VIRTUAL MEMORIES - MEMORY MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS.
UNIT V: BASIC CONCEPTS OF PIPELINING - INSTRUCTION QUEUE - DATA HAZARDS - INSTRUCTION HAZARDS - SUPERSCALAR OPERATIONS.
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1. COMPUTER ORGANIZATION - V.CARD HAMACHAR, ZRONOKO, G.VRANESIC, SOFTWARE O.ZAKY - TATA MCGRAWHILL PUBLICATIONS 4TH EDITION 1996.2. DIGITAL CIRCUITS & DESIGN - S.SALIVHANANAN, S.ARIVAZHAGAN - VIKAS PUBLICATING HOUSE PVT LTD,2002.