| Instructor(s) | Dr. Rasha Kashef [Coordinator] Office: ENG329 Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 556484 Email: rkashef@torontomu.ca Office Hours: Virtual By Appointment | Calendar Description | Topics include: Operating systems basic concepts. Hardware and software features required for operating systems. Process management; scheduling, inter-process communication and synchronization, process starvation, deadlocks. Memory management, virtual memory, and file systems. The major lab project will involve developing operating system modules. (Formerly COE 518). | ||||||||||||
| Prerequisites | CEN 199 and COE 318 and COE 428 | ||||||||||||||
| Antirequisites | None | ||||||||||||||
| Corerequisites | None | ||||||||||||||
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| Learning Objectives (Indicators) | At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
NOTE:Numbers in parentheses refer to the graduate attributes required by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). | ||||||||||||||
| Course Organization | 3.0 hours of lecture per week for 13 weeks | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Assistants | TBA | ||||||||||||||
| Course Evaluation |
Note: In order for a student to pass a course, a minimum overall course mark of 50% must be obtained. In addition, for courses that have both "Theory and Laboratory" components, the student must pass the Laboratory and Theory portions separately by achieving a minimum of 50% in the combined Laboratory components and 50% in the combined Theory components. Please refer to the "Course Evaluation" section above for details on the Theory and Laboratory components (if applicable). | ||||||||||||||
| Examinations | 1) There will be 10 weekly virtual in-class quizzes (No Quiz in Week 1, reading week, nor in the week of the midterm exam) 2) Midterm exam is in Week 8 (Exact date will be posted on D2L), the exam is closed book Virtual Online exam (covers weeks 1-7). The midterm exam is an in-class Online Exam through D2L. 3) The Final exam will be scheduled during exam period, Virtual Exam, two hours, closed-book (covers weeks 1-13). | ||||||||||||||
| Other Evaluation Information | IMPORTANT: Students must achieve passing grades in both the theoretical and the laboratory components of the course in order to pass the course. That means the student must pass 50% of the theory components and 50% of the Lab components All the Labs have to be done individually. Labs will be weekly and will start from Week 2. Labs are In-person (Attendance is Mandatory) Lab due dates will be announced on D2L. Late lab assignments will not be accepted and will receive a mark of 0. Two week labs carry double weight than one week labs. | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Lectures will be virtual Online through Zoom. Lectures will be delivered as a mix of synchronous and asynchronous delivery. Labs are In-Person (Attendance is Mandatory). You will receive a zero mark if you are not attending your lab in-person (unless accommodation is provided and approved) | ||||||||||||||
| Other Information | None | ||||||||||||||
Week | Hours | Chapters / | Topic, description |
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1 | 2 | Introduction to computing systems and operating systems. | |
1-2 | 2 | Process Description and Control. | |
2-3 | 2 | Processes threads and microkernels. | |
3-4 | 6 | Mutual exclusion and synchronization | |
4-6 | 6 | Deadlock and Starvation | |
6-8 | 6 | Virtual memory and memory management | |
8-10 | 6 | Scheduling algorithms | |
10-13 | 6 | I/O Management Disk scheduling and File Management |
Week | L/T/A | Description |
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2 | - | Lab 1: Review C Programming |
3 | - | Lab 2: Shell Programming |
4 | - | Lab 3: Process Management |
5 | - | Lab 4: Inter Process Communication |
7 | - | Lab 5: Threads |
8 | - | Lab 6: Synchronization |
9 | - | Lab 7: Multi-threading (Monitors) |
10 | - | Lab 8: Producer Consumer Topics |
12 | - | Lab 9: Dining Philosophers |
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