Computer Science and Engineering Knowledge Center

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Operating System - Online Knol Book

Operating System - Knol Book

Authors

Narayana Rao

Operating System:

Processes, Threads, Inter-process communication, Concurrency, Synchronization, Deadlock, CPU scheduling, Memory management and virtual memory, File systems, I/O systems, Protection and security.

(Listen to Berkeley lectures on most of the topics in the above syllabus

http://academicearth.org/lectures/introduction-what-is-an-operating-system-anyway )

Introduction, What is an Operating System Anyway???
Concurrency: Processes, Threads, and Address Spaces
Thread Dispatching
Cooperating Threads
Synchronization
Readers-Writers; Language Support for Synchronization
Tips for working in a Project Team/ Cooperating Processes and Deadlock
Deadlock (continued) - Thread Scheduling
Scheduling (continued) - Protection: Kernel and Address Spaces
Address Translation
Address Translation 2, Caching and TLBs
Caching and TLBs 2, Caching and Demand Paging
Page Allocation and Replacement
Page Allocation and Replacement 2, Survey of I/O Systems
File Systems and Disk Management
Queueing Theory, Filesystems
Filesystems, Naming, and Directories
Networks and Distributed Systems
Network Protocols
Network Protocols III
Network Communication Abstractions/RPC
Protection and Security in Distributed Systems II
ManyCore OS and Peer-to-Peer Systems

Role of Operating System

Operating system

System software

What is Windows?

How to speed up Windows XP

Windows 7

Linux

Linux - CentOS flavor

Linux Kernel

New to Linux?

Linux - __init and __initdata

Linux Performance Tuning and Measurement

Windows vs. Linux

Running Windows under Linux

Ubuntu

Ubuntu Minimal Desktop Installation Guide

GNU/Linux

Chrome OS

Mac OS X

NTLDR The NT Boot Loader

OS faqs : Operating Systems Interview Questions And Answers

Unix Scripting Interview Questions

Interesting Web Pages

UC Berkeley Onine Lectures Audio

http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2398/Operating-Systems-and-System-Programming-Fall-2009

Collected Knols

Comments

Invitation to Knol Authors

Please indicate your knols relevant to this book collection.

Please write knols on topics on which knols are not there presently.

Narayana Rao - 19 Jan 2011

Short urls

http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3847

Narayana Rao - 19 Jan 2011

Computer Science and Engineering - Curriculums

Authors

Narayana Rao

Collected Knols

Syllabus - First Year Computer Science and Engineering - SNDT University, Mumbai
Syllabus - Second Year - Computer Science and Engineering - SNDTU
Syllabus of SNDT University UMIT Mumbai
Syllabus - Computer Science - Engineering - Mumbai University
Syllabus - Third Year - Computer Science and Engineering - SNDTU
SNDT University UMIT, Mumbai
Syllabus - Computer Science and Engineering Subjects - IIT Kanpur

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Interface Usability - Principles of User Interface Design

Good listing is given at

http://bokardo.com/principles-of-user-interface-design/

Friday, May 11, 2012

Microprocessors and Microcontrollers

History
http://ecourses.vtu.ac.in/nptel/courses/Webcourse-contents/IISc-BANG/Microprocessors%20and%20Microcontrollers/pdf/module1.pdf

Description of Programs
http://ecourses.vtu.ac.in/nptel/courses/Webcourse-contents/IISc-BANG/Microprocessors%20and%20Microcontrollers/pdf/module2.pdf

Interfacing
http://ecourses.vtu.ac.in/nptel/courses/Webcourse-contents/IISc-BANG/Microprocessors%20and%20Microcontrollers/pdf/module3.pdf

Introduction to Microprocessor based control - book chapter
http://www.itswtech.org/Lec/dr.basim/3/lec1.pdf

Advanced Microprocessors - Mumbai University Syllabus and Notes

Syallabus (Downloaded May 2012)
http://www.djscoe.org/Syllabus/Computer/Semester6.pdf

Module - Contents
1 Introduction to Pipelined Processors:
Pipelining: An Overlapped Parallelism, Linear pipelining,
Classification of Pipelined Processors, Principles of designing
pipeline processor, Data Flow computers,
Systolic architecture, Superscalar, Super pipeline and VLI W
processors.
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2 Intel 80386DX Processor:
Detailed study of Block diagram, Signal interfaces, Bus cycles,
Programming model, Operating modes, Address translation
mechanism in protected mode, Memory management, Protection
mechanism.

3 Intel P5 Micro architecture:
Pentium Processor Block diagram, Superscalar operation,
Integer pipeline Stages , Floating point pipeline stages, Branch
prediction logic, Cache unit.

4 Intel P6 Micro architectures:
Introduction to Pentium-Pr o Processor, Special Pentium-Pro
features,
Introduction to Pentium-2 Processor, Pentium-2 software
changes, Pentium-3 processors.

5 Pentium-4 & IA-64 Architectures:
Pentium-4 Net Burst Architecture, IA-64 Itanium Processor
architecture

6 Sun SPARC Architecture:
SPARC Processor, Data Formats, Registers, Memory model.
Study of
SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC architectures

7 Study of System Buses:
Features, classifications, applications of the system buses like I
SA, ATA,
SCSI, PCI and USB. (Study of the buses is without signals and
the timing
diagrams),
BOOKS
1) Computer Architecture and Parallel Procesing: By Hwang & Briggs ( McGr aw
Hill
International edition).
2) Pentium Processor System Architecture: By Tom Shanley & Don Anderson
(Mindshare
Publishing).
3) Intel Microprocessors: By Barry B. Brey (Pearson Education)
4) Advanced Microprocessor: By Roy & Bhurchandi (Tata McGraw Hill).
5) Advanced Microprocessors: By Daniel Tabak (McGraw Hill)
6) The SPARC Architecture Manual (Version 8).
7) Intel Manuals.

Computer Architecture and Parallel Procesing: By Hwang & Briggs ( McGr aw
Hill International edition).
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Computer_architecture_and_parallel_proce.html?id=bN9QAAAAMAAJ

Pentium Processor System Architecture: By Tom Shanley & Don Anderson
(Mindshare Publishing).
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=TVzjEZg1--YC

Intel Microprocessors: By Barry B. Brey (Pearson Education)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=P1jsNwAACAAJ

Advanced Microprocessor: By Roy & Bhurchandi (Tata McGraw Hill).
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KJNpD2KimEsC

80386 and 80486
Internal Architecture
http://ecourses.vtu.ac.in/nptel/courses/Webcourse-contents/IISc-BANG/Microprocessors%20and%20Microcontrollers/pdf/module8.pdf