CIS 660: Introduction to Operating Systems

CIS 660: Introduction to Operating Systems

Description

Operating system concepts,operating system interface (system calls), process management, memory management, file management, sample operating system

Level, Credits, Class Time Distribution

UG 3 (three hour lectures)

Prerequisites

CIS 560, CIS 570, and CIS 675, or equivalent.

Quarters Offered

Au, Wi, Sp, Su

General Information, Exclusions, etc.

Requires familiarity with C or Modula-2 (WHY?)
Requires familiarity with file organizations (WHY?)

Objectives

Mastery of functions and structures of operating systems and issues in the design of operating system.
Mastery of process management.
Mastery of memory management.
Mastery of concepts of process synchronization and communication.
Familiarity with disc allocation and disc arm scheduling algorithms.

Texts

Operating Systems by Silberschatz and Galvin.

Relationship to ABET Criterion 3

Relationship to CSE Program Objectives

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Topics

No. of Wks.	Topics
2	Introduction to operating systems, overview of advanced computer architectutre concepts (CPU modes of operations, all types of interrupt, clock), disk allocation, disk arm scheduling and (Unix like) file system related system calls.
1	Process concept and (Unix like) related system calls.
1	Process (CPU) scheduling
2 1/2	Process synchronization and interprocess communication (critical section proble, synchronization problems, direct and indirect communication)
1/2	Deadlock.
2 1/2	Memory management (contiguous allocation, paging, segmentation, virtual memory)
1/2	Security.

Grading Plan

Homeworks and Programming assignments	35%
Midterm Exam	25%
Final Exam	40%

Prepared By

Anish Arora (Date: March 31, 1999).