To study fundamentals on computer system architectures. On completion of the course, students should be able to:- understand the design and processor functional units, register set, instruction encoding, assembler programming with case study on a processor design;-  identify some critical issues to achieve performance in processor design and multiprocessing systems;-  understand the basic operations of cache memory and memory system, bus and I/O interface and operations, interrupt handling and design of I/O devices.

For a student to pass the course, at least 30% of the maximum mark for the examination must be obtained.