Foundation of Computer System (CS 541)

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Syllabus

Review of Concepts of Computer Architecture: Study of an existing CPU: architecture, instruction set and the addressing modes, assembly language programming. Control unit Design: instruction interpretation, hardwired and micro-programmed methods of design. Pipelining and parallel processing, RISC and CISC paradigms, I/O Transfer techniques: programmed, interrupt-driven and DMA; Memory organization: hierarchical memory systems, cache memories, cache coherence, virtual memory.

Review of Concepts of Operating Systems: Processes, threads, Unix fork-exec model, Unix signals, synchronization, Inter process communication, scheduling, memory management.

Review of Concepts of Computer Networks: link layer protocols, local area networks (Ethernet and variants), routing, transport layer protocols. Concepts of distributed networked systems: Virtualization, distributed file systems, mass storage systems, recovery and fault tolerance, content networking including multimedia delivery.

Reference Books:

  1. A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin and G. Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 7th Ed, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
    Operating System Concepts (7th Edition) (put.poznan.pl)
  2. J. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top down approach, 3rd Ed, Pearson India, 2004.
    Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Edition (ucg.ac.me)
  3. M. Singhal and N. Shivratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems, McGraw Hill, 1994.
  4. A. S. Tanenbaum and Van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Prentice Hall India, 2007.
  5. David A Patterson and John L Hennessy, Computer Organisation and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994. ISBN 1-55860-281-X.

Classes

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Lecture #Link To ClassTopic CoveredRemarks
1Class 1: 7 Aug 2023Instruction Set Architecture & Design
2Class 2: 11 Aug 2023Processing Unit Design
3class 3 : 14 Aug 2023Processing Unit Design
Pipelining
4Class 4: 17 Aug 2023Pipelining
5Class 5: 18 Aug 2023Pipelining
RISC
Weekend Doubt ClearingWeekend Class : 19 Aug 2023
6Class 6: 21 Aug 2023Problem Solving Class
7Class 7: 23 Aug 2023Fundamentals of Computer System
8Class 8: 25 Aug 2023
9Class 9: 31 Aug 2023

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