Studying at the University of Verona
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Study Plan
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Laurea in Bioinformatica - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018
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3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Introduction to computer architecture and operating systems (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S02717
Credits
12
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
The teaching is organized as follows:
Teoria
Laboratorio
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: students wiil learn the theory and practice to realize an algorithm in hardware, exploring a spectrum of options ranging from dedicated specialized devices to programs on a general-purpose processor; they will understand how a processor works and how an high-level program is translated into machine language and then executed; they will understand the organization of a computer system and of the operating systems running on it, with the related issues of correctness and efficiency.
Capabilities to apply knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to design specialized hardware for simple algorithms; translate simple programs from an high-level specification to machine language; write shell scripts using system calls in C in the UNIX environment; manage an information system, especially for what the installation and maintenance of applications and resources is concerned.
Program
Computer Architecture.
Fundamentals: information coding, Boolean functions, arithmetic.
Digital design: combinational circuits, sequential circuits, special purpose architectures (control unit + data path), programmable units.
Computer architecture: basic principles, instruction set, processor, memory hierarchy, I/O organization.
Practical exercises: assembly programming of LC-3 architecture.
Operating systems.
Evolution and role of the operating system. Architectural concepts. Organization and functionality of an operating system.
Process Management: Processes. Process status. Context switch. Process creation and termination. Thread. User-level threads and kernel-level threads. Process cooperation and communication: shared memory, messages. Direct and indirect communication.
Scheduling: CPU and I/O burst model. Long term, short term and medium term scheduling. Preemption. Scheduling criteria. Scheduling algorithm: FCFS, SJF, priority-based, RR, HRRN, multiple queues with and without feedback. Algorithm evaluation: deterministic and probabilistic models, simulation.
Process synchronization: data coherency, atomic operations. Critical sections. SW approaches for mutual exclusion: Peterson and Dekker's algorithms, baker's algorithm. HW for mutual exclusion: test and set, swap. Synchronization constructs: semaphores, mutex, monitor.
Deadlock: Deadlock conditions. Resource allocation graph. Deadlock prevention. Deadlock avoidance. Banker's algorithm. Deadlock detection e recovery.
Memory management: Main memory. Logical and physical addressing. Relocation, address binding. Swapping. Memory allocation. Internal and external fragmentation. Paging. HW for paging: TLB. Page table. Multi-level paging. Segmentation. Segment table. Segmentation with paging.
Virtual memory: Paging on demand. Page fault management. Page substitution algorithms: FIFO, optimal, LRU, LRU approximations. Page buffering. Frame allocation: local and global allocation. Thrashing. Working set model. Page fault frequency.
Secondary memory. Logical and physical structure of disks. Latency time. Disk scheduling algorithms: FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN, LOOK, C-LOOK. RAID.
File System: file, attributes and related operation. File types. Sequential and direct access. Directory structure. Access permissions and modes. Consistency semantics. File system structure. File system mounting. Allocation techniques: adjacent, linked, indexed. Free space management: bit vector, lists. Directory implementation: linear list, hash table.
I/O subsystem: I/O Hardware. I/O techniques: programmed I/O, interrupt, DMA. Device driver and application interface. I/O kernel services: scheduling, buffering, caching, spooling.
Practical exercises: system-level and shell programming with C.
Bibliography
Activity | Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Teoria | R.Katz, G.Borriello | Contemporary logic design (Edizione 2) | Pearson Education International | 2005 | 0-13-127830-4 | |
Teoria | Y.N. Patt, S.J. Patel | Introduction to Computing Systems (Edizione 2) | McGrawHill | 2004 | 978-0-07-246750-5 | |
Teoria | Franco Fummi, Mariagiovanna Sami, Cristina Silvano | Progettazione Digitale (Edizione 2) | McGraw-Hill | 2007 | 8838663521 | |
Teoria | A. Silberschatz - P.B. Galvin - G. Gagne | Sistemi Operativi. Concetti ed esempi. (Edizione 8) | Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori | 2009 | 978-88-7192-569-1 |
Examination Methods
Written test for the theoretical part with questions and exercises (3/4 of the final grade).
Programming projects and written test for the laboratory (1/4 of final grade).
Teaching materials e documents
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Architettura - Cap. 1-10 CLD Borriello-Katz (en, 745 KB, 10/3/17)
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Architettura - Dispense LC-3 Patt (it, 6576 KB, 12/11/17)
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Architettura - Lezioni Vahid (en, 291 KB, 12/4/17)
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Lezione Storia dei Sistemi di Calcolo (en, 3100 KB, 1/9/18)
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Lezioni UCB Sistemi Operativi (fino a lez. 15) (en, 9620 KB, 1/9/18)
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XX-TV Temi d'esame (it, 3534 KB, 1/9/18)
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2018 Elaborato SHELL.pdf (it, 374 KB, 4/8/18)
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2018-Elaborato System CALL.pdf (it, 503 KB, 5/14/18)
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2018 Modalità di svolgimento esami.pdf (it, 146 KB, 4/20/18)
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BASH Esercizi Script.pdf (it, 133 KB, 4/9/18)
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Esercizi 1- System Call UNIX.pdf (it, 175 KB, 5/4/18)
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Esercizi 2- System Call UNIX.pdf (it, 171 KB, 5/14/18)
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Esercizi di base SHELL.pdf (it, 73 KB, 3/26/18)
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Esercizi LC3 - Stringhe e funzioni.pdf (it, 141 KB, 3/23/18)
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IstructionSET-LC3 (it, 43 KB, 3/5/18)
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LC3-Esercizi Aggiuntivi-1.pdf (it, 164 KB, 3/12/18)
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Lezione1-LC3.pdf (it, 262 KB, 3/5/18)
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Lezione2-LC3.pdf (it, 369 KB, 3/9/18)
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Lezione3-LC3.pdf (it, 268 KB, 3/9/18)
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Lucidi - Unix Shell.pdf (it, 4992 KB, 3/26/18)
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SystemCallUnix-OLDVersion.pdf (it, 594 KB, 5/4/18)
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SystemCallUnix.pdf (it, 1538 KB, 5/4/18)
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TrovaCaratteriLC3.asm.pdf (it, 22 KB, 4/20/18)