Textbook needed for the course:
(revised JAC 1/00)
Advanced Operating System Concepts,
A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, and G. Gagne
Topical outline of course:
Instruction Set Architectures (2 weeks)
CISC and RISC: ISA evolution and tradeoffs
Instruction formats, number of operands, addressing modes
Controller implementation: state machine vs. microprogramming
Effect of ISA on microarchitecture implementation
Effect of ISA on the compiler
Pipelining (4 weeks)
Pipelining basics
Pipeline stages: fetch, decode, execute, memory write-back
Hazards and solutions
Branch prediction and delayed branches
Case Studies
Memory Systems (3 weeks)
Memory hierarchy
Basic organization of caches, interleaved memory
Virtual memory basics, memory management
Deadlocks
Segmentation and protection
Case Studies
Process Management (3 weeks)
Processes, threads, and CPU scheduling
Synchronization and concurrency management
Deadlocks, protection, and security
Case Studies
I/O Architectures (2 weeks)
Bus hierarchies, device drives
Interrupts, DMA, polling
Disk structures, I/O scheduling
File allocation and file systems
LANs, network interfaces, basic interprocessor communciation
Case Studies
Laboratory Assignments
Architecture simulation
Operating system project