CT213 - Computing Systems Organisation

Course Syllabus

CPU review and operating systems concepts(type, structure, building blocks, kernel, processes, scheduling, critical regions and synchronisation, file systems and management).

(2 hours/week, first semester).

Course Details

You can download the course details in powerpoint format here. You are required to review the CT101 course, available here.

Presentations

• Review of Computer Organisation. Programs and Development Tools. CPU, Memory Subsystem and I/O Subsystem Review.
• Programming Models. Instruction Types. Stack-Based Architectures. General Purpose Architectures. Using Stack to Implement Procedure Calls. Calling conventions.
• Modern programmable platform used in labs. Zynq 7000 series with both FPGA and dual Cortex A9 ARM processors.

• System software. Operating systems evolution. Operating systems classification. Operating systems organisation. Building blocks.
• Process Management. Process management organisation. Processes. Threads. System services for process management .
• Scheduler organisation. Scheduler types. Scheduling algorithms. BSD Unix scheduler
• Process Synchronisation. Critical Section. Mutual exclusion and algorithms to deal with mutual exclusion. Semaphores.Inter Process Communication. Messages. Mutual exclusion with messages. Shared memory. Pipes
• Memory Management. Address binding. Virtual Memory. Segmentation. Paging. Operating Systems VM policies. Fetch. Placement. Replacement. Resident set management. Cleaning. Load. Linux and windows memory management
• Device management. I/O system organisation. Direct I/O. Memory mapped I/O. Direct memory access. Buffering. Device drivers.
• File Management. Functional Requirements. Architecture. File Organisation. File Directory (content and structure). Record Blocking. Secondary Storage Management (file allocation and free space management)