Activity | Credits | Period | Academic staff | Timetable |
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Teoria | 9 | I sem. | Tiziano Villa | |
Laboratorio | 3 | II sem. | Nicola Drago |
Knowledge and understanding: students wiil learn the theory and practice to realize an algorithm in hardware, exploring a spectrum of options ranging from dedicated specialized devices to programs on a general-purpose processor; they will understand how a processor works and how an high-level program is translated into machine language and then executed; they will understand the organization of a computer system and of the operating systems running on it, with the related issues of correctness and efficiency.
Capabilities to apply knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to design specialized hardware for simple algorithms; translate simple programs from an high-level specification to machine language; write shell scripts using system calls in C in the UNIX environment; manage an information system, especially for what the installation and maintenance of applications and resources is concerned.
Computer Architecture.
Fundamentals: information coding, Boolean functions, arithmetic.
Digital design: combinational circuits, sequential circuits, special purpose architectures (control unit + data path), programmable units.
Computer architecture: basic principles, instruction set, processor, memory hierarchy, I/O organization.
Practical exercises: assembly programming of LC-3 architecture.
Operating systems.
Evolution and role of the operating system. Architectural concepts. Organization and functionality of an operating system.
Process Management: Processes. Process status. Context switch. Process creation and termination. Thread. User-level threads and kernel-level threads. Process cooperation and communication: shared memory, messages. Direct and indirect communication.
Scheduling: CPU and I/O burst model. Long term, short term and medium term scheduling. Preemption. Scheduling criteria. Scheduling algorithm: FCFS, SJF, priority-based, RR, HRRN, multiple queues with and without feedback. Algorithm evaluation: deterministic and probabilistic models, simulation.
Process synchronization: data coherency, atomic operations. Critical sections. SW approaches for mutual exclusion: Peterson and Dekker's algorithms, baker's algorithm. HW for mutual exclusion: test and set, swap. Synchronization constructs: semaphores, mutex, monitor.
Deadlock: Deadlock conditions. Resource allocation graph. Deadlock prevention. Deadlock avoidance. Banker's algorithm. Deadlock detection e recovery.
Memory management: Main memory. Logical and physical addressing. Relocation, address binding. Swapping. Memory allocation. Internal and external fragmentation. Paging. HW for paging: TLB. Page table. Multi-level paging. Segmentation. Segment table. Segmentation with paging.
Virtual memory: Paging on demand. Page fault management. Page substitution algorithms: FIFO, optimal, LRU, LRU approximations. Page buffering. Frame allocation: local and global allocation. Thrashing. Working set model. Page fault frequency.
Secondary memory. Logical and physical structure of disks. Latency time. Disk scheduling algorithms: FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN, LOOK, C-LOOK. RAID.
File System: file, attributes and related operation. File types. Sequential and direct access. Directory structure. Access permissions and modes. Consistency semantics. File system structure. File system mounting. Allocation techniques: adjacent, linked, indexed. Free space management: bit vector, lists. Directory implementation: linear list, hash table.
I/O subsystem: I/O Hardware. I/O techniques: programmed I/O, interrupt, DMA. Device driver and application interface. I/O kernel services: scheduling, buffering, caching, spooling.
Practical exercises: system-level and shell programming with C.
Written test for the theoretical part with questions and exercises (3/4 of the final grade).
Programming projects and written test for the laboratory (1/4 of final grade).
Activity | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
Teoria | R.Katz, G.Borriello | Contemporary logic design (Edizione 2) | Pearson Education International | 2005 | 0-13-127830-4 | |
Teoria | Y.N. Patt, S.J. Patel | Introduction to Computing Systems (Edizione 2) | McGrawHill | 2004 | 978-0-07-246750-5 | |
Teoria | Franco Fummi, Mariagiovanna Sami, Cristina Silvano | Progettazione Digitale (Edizione 2) | McGraw-Hill | 2007 | 8838663521 | |
Teoria | A. Silberschatz - P.B. Galvin - G. Gagne | Sistemi Operativi. Concetti ed esempi. (Edizione 8) | Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori | 2009 | 978-88-7192-569-1 |
Title | Format (Language, Size, Publication date) |
Architettura - Cap. 1-10 CLD Borriello-Katz |
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Architettura - Dispense LC-3 Patt |
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Architettura - Lezioni Vahid |
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Lezione Storia dei Sistemi di Calcolo |
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Lezioni UCB Sistemi Operativi (fino a lez. 15) |
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XX-TV Temi d'esame |
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2018 Elaborato SHELL.pdf |
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2018-Elaborato System CALL.pdf |
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2018 Modalità di svolgimento esami.pdf |
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BASH Esercizi Script.pdf |
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Esercizi 1- System Call UNIX.pdf |
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Esercizi 2- System Call UNIX.pdf |
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Esercizi di base SHELL.pdf |
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Esercizi LC3 - Stringhe e funzioni.pdf |
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IstructionSET-LC3 |
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LC3-Esercizi Aggiuntivi-1.pdf |
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Lezione1-LC3.pdf |
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Lezione2-LC3.pdf |
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Lezione3-LC3.pdf |
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Lucidi - Unix Shell.pdf |
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SystemCallUnix-OLDVersion.pdf |
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SystemCallUnix.pdf |
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TrovaCaratteriLC3.asm.pdf |
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