15-410 Operating System Design and Implementation

Units: 12.0 Department: Computer Science Prerequisites: 15-213 Notes: Students who have not satisfied the prerequisite may be require. to complete a skills assessment exercise before or during the firs. week of the semester in order to remain registered in the class. Related URLs: http://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu Operating System Design and Implementation is a rigorous hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of operating systems. The core experience is writing a small Unix-inspired OS kernel, in C with some x86 assembly language, which runs on a PC hardware simulator (and on actual PC hardware if you wish). Work is done in two-person teams, and team programming skills (source control, modularity, documentation) are emphasized. The size and scope of the programming assignments typically result in students significantly developing their design, implementation, and debugging abilities. Core concepts include the process model, virtual memory, threads, synchronization, and deadlock; the course also surveys higher-level OS topics including file systems, interprocess communication, networking, and security. (Graduate) students who have not satisfied the prerequisite at Carnegie Mellon are strongly cautioned - to enter the class you must be able to write a storage allocator in C, use a debugger, understand 2's-complement arithmetic, and translate between C and x86 assembly language. The instructor may require you to complete a skills assessment exercise before the first week of the semester in order to remain registered in the class.

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Spring 2005 times

Sec	Time	Day	Instructor	Location
A	10:30 - 11:20 am	M	Maggs, Eckhardt	WEH 7500
		W	Maggs, Eckhardt	WEH 7500
		F	Maggs, Eckhardt	WEH 7500