HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROPROCESSORS

ANNA UNIVERSITY TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
Tiruchirappalli - 620 024 Regulations 2007
Syllabus
B.E. COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SEMESTER VIII (Common to CSE 8th Semester and IT 7th Semester)
ELECTIVE II
HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROPROCESSORS
(Common to CSE and IT)

UNIT I CISC PRINCIPLES 9
Classic CISC microprocessors − Intel X86 families − Architecture − Register set − Data formats −
Addressing modes − Instruction set − Assembler directives − Interrupts − Segmentation − Paging −
Real and virtual mode execution − Protection mechanism − Task management 8086- 286- 386 and 486
architectures.

UNIT II PENTIUM PROCESSORS 10
Introduction to pentium microprocessor − Special pentium registers − Pentium memory management −
New pentium instructions − Introduction to pentium pro and its special features − Architecture of
pentium II − Pentium III and pentium4 microprocessors.

UNIT III RISC PRINCIPLES 10
RISC Vs CISC − RISC properties and evaluation − On chip register file Vs cache evaluation − Study
of a typical RISC processor − The powerPC − Architecture and special features − Power PC 601 −
IBM RS/6000 − Sun SPARC family − Architecture − Super SPARC.

UNIT IV RISC PROCESSOR 8
MIPS Rx000 family − Architecture − Special features − MIPS R4000 and R4400 − Motorola 88000
Family − Architecture − MC 88110 − MC 88100 and MC 88200.

UNIT V SPECIAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS 8
EPIC architecture − ASIPs − Network processors − DSPs − Graphics/image processors.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOKS
1. Daniel Tabak, “Advanced Microprocessors”, 2nd Edition, TMH, 1995.
2. Brey, B.B., “The Intel Microprocessors −8086/8088- 80186/80188, 80286, 80386, 80486,
Pentium −Pentium Pro Processor, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Architecture,
Programming and Interfacing”, 6th Edition, Pearson Education/PHI, 2002.

REFERENCES
1. www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/itanium2 (Unit V:EPIC)
3. www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-111.html(UnitV:Network Processor)
4. www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily (UnitV:Network Processor)
5. www.national.com/appinfo/imaging/processors.html(UnitV: Image Processor)

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