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Having students build their own [[Xinu]] is one of the potential tracks presented for a professor that is [[Teaching With Xinu]]. | Having students build their own [[Xinu]] is one of the potential tracks presented for a professor that is [[Teaching With Xinu]]. | ||
| − | + | Students will learn to extend an operating system by adding kernel level and user level applications. Given a functional Embedded Xinu operating system the students will have to understand and manipulate existing operating system code to create additional operating system features. To add more applications to the operating system students will have to understand the interactions between the program in design and the operating system's device and kernel interaction calls. Programming for embedded devices allows students to engage in development on small resource constrained environments. Through extending the existing Embedded Xinu operating system a student learns to use and understand code not written by the student and develops advanced operating system concepts. | |
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== Course Outcomes == | == Course Outcomes == | ||
Revision as of 08:04, 12 December 2008
Overview
Having students build their own Xinu is one of the potential tracks presented for a professor that is Teaching With Xinu.
Students will learn to extend an operating system by adding kernel level and user level applications. Given a functional Embedded Xinu operating system the students will have to understand and manipulate existing operating system code to create additional operating system features. To add more applications to the operating system students will have to understand the interactions between the program in design and the operating system's device and kernel interaction calls. Programming for embedded devices allows students to engage in development on small resource constrained environments. Through extending the existing Embedded Xinu operating system a student learns to use and understand code not written by the student and develops advanced operating system concepts.
Course Outcomes
Potential Course Structure
An Operating Systems course using the below course outline or something similar will introduce students to some fundamental concepts of operating systems combined with the basics of networking and communications. Topics include: memory management, scheduling, concurrent processing, device management, file systems, networking, security, and system performance. A similar course structure is followed by Dr. Dennis Brylow at Marquette University in his sophomore level Operating Systems course. Most of the assignments where students are building Embedded Xinu are done in teams of two.
Course Outline
| Week | Topics | Assignments | |||||
| 01 | C (basics) and OS Structures, Processes | C Basics | |||||
| 02 | C (functions, control flow) and Processes | ||||||
| 03 | C (pointers, arrays, structs) and Threads | C Structs and Pointers | |||||
| 04 | CPU Scheduling | Synchronous Serial Driver | |||||
| 05 | CPU Scheduling | ||||||
| 06 | Process Synchronization | Context Switch and Non-Preemptive Scheduling | |||||
| 07 | Deadlocks | Priority Scheduling and Process Termination | |||||
| 08 | Main Memory and Virtual Memory | ||||||
| 09 | File System Interface | Preemption and Synchronization | |||||
| 10 | File System Implementation | ||||||
| 11 | Mass-Storage Structure | Delta Queues | |||||
| 12 | I/O Systems | Heap Memory | |||||
| 13 | Protection, Security and Distributed System Structures | Asynchronous Device Driver | |||||
| 14 | Distributed System Structures | ||||||
| 15 | Distributed File Systems | Ultra-Tiny File System |
Books
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Richie, The C Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, 1978.
