Degree Level Course
Computer Systems Design
To learn about the internal organisation of the computer. To learn about the architecture of a computer’s CPU.
Course ID: BSCS3031
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Elective
Pre-requisites: None
Course structure & Assessments
8 weeks of coursework, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.
| WEEK 1 | Course Overview, Building Blocks of Computer Systems |
| WEEK 2 | Foundation of Logical Circuits, Introduction to Boolean Algebra |
| WEEK 3 | Canonical Forms (SOP & POS), Universal Gates and Timing Diagrams |
| WEEK 4 | N- bit Comparator, Multiplexer, Encoder and Decoder |
| WEEK 5 | Adder and PLA, Boolean Logic Simplification, K-maps |
| WEEK 6 | Introduction to Circuit verse, 7 Segment LED Display |
| WEEK 7 | Introduction to Sequential Circuits |
| WEEK 8 | Registers, Counters |
| WEEK 9 | Sequential logic design, FSM Design |
| WEEK 10 | Instruction Set architecture |
| WEEK 11 | ALU Design |
| WEEK 12 | CPU Design |
Prescribed Books
The following are the suggested books for the course:
Computer Organization and Design, 4th Ed, D. A. Patterson and J. L. Hennessy
W. Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture – Designing for Performance, 9th Edition, Pearson, 2013
About the Instructors
Prof. Ayon Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of CSE at IIT Madras. He received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook, NY, and had a three-year stint as a researcher at NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ. His research interests are in designing IoT-based/mobile systems that interact with and interpret (sense) the physical world, spanning both algorithm design as well as end-to-end system prototyping.