Operating Systems

• explain the role of the operating system and how computer programs are executed.
• define in own words basic operating system concepts such as processes, threads and scheduling.
• identify strategies for communication and synchronisation among different programs.
• program at the operating system interface.
• explain basic principles for implementing central components of operating systems, e.g. a scheduler or a device driver.
• utilize operating systems for multi-processor systems.
• evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different operating system structures.
• characterize operating systems by various parameters such as functionality and performance.

Operating systems: Processes, threads, scheduling. System calls. Support for synchronization and communication. Operating system organizations. Device drivers. Virtual memory. File systems. Security aspects.

02314/02312/62514/02326/02317/62557/02322, Experience in sequential programming; basic knowledge of computer systems organisation; experience with the C programming language.Knowledge of basic algorithms and data structures.

Lectures, group project and experiments, presentations.

The course is a compulsory course for the BEng. study lines software technology and Computer Engineering(IT-electronics) and is reserved for these.

Parts of the course may be conducted in Danish.