Course Instructor: Octavian Purdilă.

The Operating Systems Design course is an advanced course about the concepts that are used throughout the operating systems. The course is focused on a deep analysis of the operating system kernel and its subsystems. The analysis is performed on the Linux and Windows NT kernels. Its objectives are: understanding how the kernel's role in an operating system and how it and its subsystems work; understanding the basic mechanisms dealing with the kernel: concurrency, processes, I/O processing, scheduling, virtual memory, etc. The course aims at fixing the theoretic aspects through related homeworks; the homeworks take the shape of kernel modules that interract directly with the operating system kernel.

Syllabus:

• Introduction.
• System calls.
• Deferrable functions.
• Address space.
• Physical memory.
• Virtual memory.
• Filesystems.
• Networking.
• Assembly and linking.