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Introduction to
Computer Organization and
Architecture (COA)
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Why should COA be studied?
Course Objectives
■ Important questions:
■ How are computers organized?
■ How are computers made?
■ How are combinational circuits made?
How may we understand the way computers
work?
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How can computers allow many programs

running concurrently?
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■ What are answers for above questions?

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Course Resource
Book: William Stallings, 2012, Computer
Organization and Architecture: Design for
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Performance, 9th Edition, Prentice Hall.

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Course Description
■ Chapter 1: Introduction
■ Chapter 2: Computer Evolution and Performance"
Chapter 3: A Top-Level View of Computer
Function and Interconnection
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■ Chapter 4: Cache Memory

■ Chapter 5: Internal Memory
■ Chapter 6: External Memory
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Course Description
■ Chapter 7: Input/Output
■ Chapter 8: Operating System Support
■ Chapter 11: Digital Logic
Chapter 12: Instruction Sets: Characteristics and
Functions
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Chapter 13: Instruction Sets: Addressing Modes

and Formats, Assembly Language
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Course Description
■ Chapter 14: Processor Structure and Function
■ Chapter 15: Reduced Instruction Set Computers
Chapter 16: Instruction-Level Parallelism and
Superscalar Processors
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■ Chapter 17: Parallel Processing

■ Chapter 18: Multicore Computers
■ Chapter 19: Control Unit Operation
■ Chapter 20: Microprogrammed Control
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Course plan
■ See it on LMS
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Course Rules
■ How to conduct
■ Prepare contents of the next session at home
■ Following lessons in classrooms
■ Completing chapter assessment in time and Quizzes (via
LMS)

■ Communication
■ Class
■ Interchange by FU-HCM LMS, Forum
■ Discussing actively in your teams and in classrooms
■ Free to question and answer

■ Others
■ Off phone/ No game, no chat in class
■ Use laptops under teacher’s instruction
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Evaluation Strategy
■ Must attend more than 80% of contact hours
(if not, not allow to take exam).
■ Evaluating
■ Exercises (E) 30 %
■ 2 Assignment (A) 30% ( Assembly
programs)
■ Final Exam (FE) 40 %
■ Total score=30%(E)+30%(A)+40% (FE)

■ Pass: All on-going assessment > 0 and Total

score ≥ 5 and Final Examination ≥ 4 (of 10)
■ Retake only the Final Exam when not passed
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How to study?
■ This course is complex knowledge (however, it’s
attractive and exciting), so you need to keep tight
grip on it
■ Read
■ On the books to get the general concept
■ Reference, study, collection from anywhere else (internet,
your classmate, forum …)
■ Attend lectures
■ Listens, understand, then make your own notes
■ Give your explanation about some topic in lectures
■ Ask questions
■ Practice all the exercises, demo to make your sense
■ After classes
■ Discuss your classmate in directly, on forum
■ Do the lab, assignments to submit via LMS, and do more
exercises
■ Build your teams in yourselves to support together in
studying
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Academic Policy
■ Cheating, plagiarism and breach of
copyright are serious offenses under this
Policy.
■ Cheating
■ Cheating during a test or exam is construed as talking,
peeking at another student’s paper or any other clandestine
method of transmitting information.
■ Plagiarism
■ Plagiarism is using the work of others without citing it; that
is, holding the work of others out as your own work.
■ Breach of Copyright
■ If you photocopy a textbook without the copyright holder's
permission, you violate copyright law.
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Enjoy the Course

■ Be enthusiastic about the material

because it is interesting, useful and an
important part of your training as an IT
engineer.
■ We will do our best but we need your
help.
■ So let’s all have fun together with COA!!!
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Chapter 1: Introduction
William Stallings, Computer Organization and
Architecture. 9th Edition
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Objectives
■ Why should we study this chapter?
■ Distinguish architecture and organization
■ What is a hierachical system?
■ What are basic computer functions?
What are main structural components of the
computer?
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Contents
■ 1.1- Organization and Architecture.
■ 1.2- Structure and functions
1.1- Computer Organization and Architecture
• Attributes of a • Instruction set,
system visible to number of bits
the programmer used to represent
various data
• Have a direct
types, I/O
impact on the
mechanisms,
logical execution Architectural
Computer
attributes techniques for
of a program Architecture
include: addressing
memory
Difference
s:
Organization
Computer
al attributes
• Hardware details include:
Organization
transparent to the • The operational
programmer, control units and their
signals, interfaces interconnections
between the computer that realize the
and peripherals, architectural
memory technology specifications
used
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IBM System/370 Architecture
■ IBM System/370 architecture
■ Was introduced in 1970
■ Included a number of models
Could upgrade to a more expensive, faster model without having to
abandon (chối bỏ) original software
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New models are introduced with improved technology, but retain the
same architecture so that the customer’s software investment is
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protected
Architecture has survived to this day as the architecture of IBM’s
mainframe product line
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1.2- Structure and Function
■ Hierarchical system ■ Structure
Set of interrelated The way in which
subsystems components relate to each
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other
Hierarchical nature of
complex systems is essential Function
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to both their design and their

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description The operation of individual

components as part of the
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Designer need only deal with structure

a particular level of the
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system at a time
Concerned with structure
and function at each level
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Functions
A computer can perform
four basic functions:
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● Data processing
● Data storage
● Data movement
● Control
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Periphera Periphera
Operations l1 l2

(a)
Data movement
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environm
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Operations rea
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(b)
Data storage
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Operations

(c)
Data movement
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Operations
(d)
Control
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The
Computer
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✦ CPU – controls the operation of
the computer and performs its
There are four
main
data processing functions
structural ✦ Main Memory – stores data
components
of the ✦ I/O – moves data between the
computer: computer and its external
environment
✦ System Interconnection –
some mechanism that provides
for communication among CPU,
main memory, and I/O
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CPU ■ Control Unit
Controls the operation of the CPU
and hence the computer
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Major structural
components: ■ Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)
Performs the computer’s data
processing function
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■ Registers
■ Provide storage internal to the CPU
■ CPU Interconnection
Some mechanism that provides for
communication among the control
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unit, ALU, and registers

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Exercises
(Write your answers to your notebook)
1.1 What, in general terms, is the distinction between
computer organization and computer architecture?
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1.2 What, in general terms, is the distinction between

computer structure and computer function?
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■ 1.3 What are the four main functions of a computer?

1.4 List and briefly define the main structural
components of a computer.
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1.5 List and briefly define the main structural

components of a processor.
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Chapter 1
Computer Organization ■ Structure
CPU
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Computer Architecture
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■ Main memory
Function ■ I/O
System interconnection
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■ Data processing ■

■ Data storage CPU structural components

Data movement
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Control unit
Control
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■ ALU
■ Registers
■ CPU interconnection
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Internet Resources
- Web site for book
■ [Link]
■ Links to sites of interest
■ Links to sites for courses that use the book
■ Errata list for book
■ Information on other books by W. Stallings
■ [Link]
■ Math
■ How-to
■ Research resources
■ Misc
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computer organization and computer architecture?
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