460 Course Plan

                CPTS 460 COURSE PLAN
                     Fall, 2023

TITLE : Operating Systems and Computer Architecture

TEXT (REQUIRED): Embedded and Real-time Operating Systems,
                 K.C. Wang, Springer International AG, 2017


TEXT (MAIN Reference): Design and Implementation of the MTX Operating System,
                       K.C. Wang, Springer International AG, 2015



ASSIGNMENTS:   This website and samples/ directory.

INSTRUCTOR : K. C. Wang, Professor of EECS, Sloan 321; 
                 kwang@eecs.wsu.edu
                 Office Hours: Tu, Th 9-10 AM via ZOOM only


Goal of Course: Design and implement a REAL embedded operating system that actually works.

                    TOPICS COVERED:

1. Introduction to Operating Systems:
    Unix/Linux, MTX. computer system and operations, system development 
    software, PC emulators, link C and assembly programs.

2. Booting OS

3. ARM Archicture, ARM programming and embedded systems
     
4. Processes:
    Concept and implementation of processes; process states,
    context switching, process scheduling.  

5. Process management: 
      fork, wait, exit, exec, signals, pipes in Unix/Linux and Wanix. 
   Processes in (microKernel based) OS:
      Micro vs. Monnolithic Kernels, tasks, servers and user processes in Minix; 

6. Process Synchronization:  
    The process model; mutual exclusion and critical regions, 
    Implementation of low-level mutual exclusion primitives.
    Synchronization primitives; events, event queues, semaphores.

7. Process Communication:    
    High-level process synchronization constructs; messages.

8. Process Control:      
    Scheduling algorithms. Dead lock and starvation problems.

9. Memory Management:
    Memory management schemes  
    Paging and Virtual memory

10. I/O device drivers:         
    Interrupts and interrupt processing
    Interraction between interrupt handler and process.
    Design and implementation of I/O drivers;

11. File Systems: 
    Review of EXT2 file system.
    NFS and RFS based on UDP and TCP/IP

11. Real-time OS
                   ASSIGNMENTS and REQUIREMENTS 

1.  2 Exams:                  60%

2.  Programming Assignments : 40%
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1. All Assignments are INDEPENDENT WORK !!  Absosulely no COPYING!!

2. Oral Quiz will be given during demo of your work.


                   SYSTEM SOFTWARE:

1. Website: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~cs460/samples Directory:
            Sample Lab Assignments Solutions

2. Computers:
   Your laptops running Ubuntu Linux version 22.04

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3. Development Software: (Ubuntu users)

READ Chapter 2.5: Tool Chain

Install ARM Cross Compiling packages:

     sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi
     sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm
   
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