Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

Introduction to computer systems and operating systems: especially dealing with the Linux command line

Technical details for the construction of computer systems:

• Components of digital logic, processor chips, buses and memory technologies: DRAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH
• Instruction set architecture for CISC and RISC
• Microarchitecture of processors: register sets, ALU, caches, pipelining, jump prediction, out-of-order execution and superscalar processors
• Processors for embedded systems, network processors, graphics processors

Advanced operating system topics:

• File system, process management, memory management
• Virtual memory details (paging, MMU ...)
• Details on scheduling algorithms
• Linux system programming (e.g. use IPC and other Syscalls POSIX)

• The students understand the essential processes in a simple digital computer and know how simple operations can be implemented in hardware and software.
• Students know the most important administrative tasks of operating systems: process, memory and file management.
• They understand the basic administrative structures and algorithms that are necessary for these administrative tasks. They know the advantages and disadvantages of some of these algorithms and are therefore able to select the optimal algorithm for specific scenarios.
• Students can use system calls under C (e.g. IPC, fork () etc.), i.e. Create system programs.

Integrated lecture with seminar, lab work and computing practical.

Evaluation of the two exercises je 10%, a digital exam at the end of both parts of the course je 40%.
For a positive grade, a minimum of 50% of the possible points must be achieved across all parts of the examination.

Non applicable

• Tanenbaum, Andrew S.; Austin, Todd (2014): Rechnerarchitektur: Von der digitalen Logik zum Parallelrechner. 6., aktualisierte. Hallbergmoos: Pearson Studium.
• Patterson, David A.; Hennessy, John L. (2021): Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface. 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufmann.
• Tanenbaum, Andrew S.; Bos, Herbert (2016): Moderne Betriebssysteme. 4., aktualisierte. Hallbergmoos/Germany: Pearson Studium. 
• Stallings, William (2017): Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, Global Edition. 9. Aufl. Harlow, Essex: Pearson.
• Glatz, Eduard (2019): Betriebssysteme: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Systemprogrammierung. 4., überarbeitete und aktualisierte. dpunkt.verlag GmbH.

Face-to-face, attandance is mandatory in the operating systems seminars (labs)