ELEC4075 - 01A - Engineering Operating Systems

Students will learn the fundamentals of operating systems concepts and architectures for various platforms such as personal computers, mobile, networked and real-time embedded systems. Coverage shall include operating systems architecture, concepts and methods for managing processes and threads, main memory, file systems, I/O management and real-time systems. Detailed examples are taken from several operating systems, emphasizing the techniques used in UNIX variants. Concepts and techniques will be demonstrated using lab experiments using UNIX- like system such as Linux or QNX.