Department of Computer Science Course: CS 3725

CS 3725 - Computer Architecture and Operating Systems

Evaluation:

There will be five to seven assignments, approximately one on each of the major sections indicated in the outline. The final assignment will be due in the last two weeks of the semester.

Course outline:

• Brief review of architecture of a simple MIPS-like processor
  • datapath and control
  • a single cycle implementation
  • a multi-cycle implementation
  • interrupts and exceptions

• Foundations of high speed computation
  • pipelining
  • data and resource dependencies
  • hazards and exceptions

• Introduction to operating systems
  • operating systems structures
  • processes and process management
  • process scheduling

• Memory system organization and architecture
  • the memory hierarchy
  • cache memory
  • virtual memory
  • memory and other resource management

• Interfacing and communications
  • I/O control methods
  • The system bus
  • Synchronization and control
  • Dedicated I/O processors

• Scheduling and synchronization
  • process and processor scheduling
  • process synchronization and communication
  • deadlocks

• Parallel processors
  • internal parallelism --- vector processors
  • tightly coupled systems
  • loosely coupled systems

References:

Computer Organization & Design The Hardware/Software Interface (Fifth Edition), by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, Elseveir (2013)
ISBN 9780124077263

Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 9/E , by W. Stallings, Prentice Hall (2012)
ISBN 978-0-13-293633-0

Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach , by Dezso Sima, Terence Fountain, and Peter Karsuk, Addison Wesley (1997)
ISBN 0-201-42291-3

Operating System Concepts, 9th Edition , by A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, and G. Gagne, Wiley (2012)
ISBN 978-1-118-06333-0

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 8E , by W. Stallings Prentice Hall (2015)
ISBN 0-13-380591-3