Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
| Period | From | To |
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| I semestre | Oct 1, 2018 | Jan 31, 2019 |
| II semestre | Mar 4, 2019 | Jun 14, 2019 |
| Session | From | To |
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| Sessione invernale d'esame | Feb 1, 2019 | Feb 28, 2019 |
| Sessione estiva d'esame | Jun 17, 2019 | Jul 31, 2019 |
| Sessione autunnale d'esame | Sep 2, 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione Estiva | Jul 17, 2019 | Jul 17, 2019 |
| Sessione Autunnale | Nov 20, 2019 | Nov 20, 2019 |
| Sessione Invernale | Mar 17, 2020 | Mar 17, 2020 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sospensione attività didattica | Nov 2, 2018 | Nov 3, 2018 |
| Vacanze di Natale | Dec 24, 2018 | Jan 6, 2019 |
| Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 19, 2019 | Apr 28, 2019 |
| Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2019 | May 21, 2019 |
| Vacanze estive | Aug 5, 2019 | Aug 18, 2019 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Science and Engineering Teaching and Student Services Unit.
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Academic staff
Study Plan
The 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 enrolment year.
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2° Year
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3° Year
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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 (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S02717
Credits
12
Coordinatore
Also offered in courses
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
The teaching is organized as follows:
Teoria mod. 1
Teoria mod. 2
Laboratorio
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide the theory and practice to implement an algorithm in hardware, exploring a spectrum of options ranging from dedicated specialized devices to programs on a general-purpose processor. The students 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 cor-rectness and efficiency.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to design specialized hardware for simple algo-rithms; 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 mod. 1 | R.Katz, G.Borriello | Contemporary logic design (Edizione 2) | Pearson Education International | 2005 | 0-13-127830-4 | |
| Teoria mod. 1 | Y.N. Patt, S.J. Patel | Introduction to Computing Systems (Edizione 2) | McGrawHill | 2004 | 978-0-07-246750-5 | |
| Teoria mod. 1 | Franco Fummi, Mariagiovanna Sami, Cristina Silvano | Progettazione Digitale (Edizione 2) | McGraw-Hill | 2007 | 8838663521 | |
| Teoria mod. 2 | Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron | Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Edizione 3) | Pearson; 3 edition (March 12, 2015) | 2015 | 978-0134092669 | |
| Teoria mod. 2 | Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne | Sistemi operativi. Concetti ed esempi. (Edizione 9) | Pearson | 2014 | 9788865183717 |
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
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Architettura - Cap. 1-10 CLD Borriello-Katz
(en, 745 KB, 18/11/19)
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Architettura - Lezioni LC3
(it, 6577 KB, 02/02/20)
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XX-TV Temi d'esame
(it, 4241 KB, 19/12/19)
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EASO-M0 Storia dei sistemi di calcolo
(en, 3172 KB, 15/12/19)
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EASO-M1 Processi
(en, 1048 KB, 08/12/19)
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EASO-M2 Sincronizzazione dei processi
(en, 1109 KB, 19/12/19)
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EASO-M3 Gestione dei processi
(en, 1858 KB, 15/01/20)
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EASO-M4 Memoria
(en, 2296 KB, 18/02/20)
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2020-03-20 EserciziBaseScript.pdf
(it, 170 KB, 20/03/20)
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2020-Elaborato BASH.pdf
(it, 259 KB, 15/04/20)
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2020-Elaborato SystemCall.pdf
(it, 108 KB, 15/05/20)
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Corso shell UNIX (BASH)
(it, 4992 KB, 11/03/20)
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Elenco comandi di SHELL.pdf
(it, 236 KB, 20/03/20)
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Esercizi utilizzo comandi di shell
(it, 83 KB, 11/03/20)
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IstructionSet.pdf
(it, 43 KB, 17/01/20)
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LC3 - Esercizi.pdf
(it, 292 KB, 30/01/20)
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LC3 - Lezione1.pdf
(it, 475 KB, 16/01/20)
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LC3 - Lezione2.pdf
(it, 540 KB, 16/01/20)
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LC3 - Lezione3.pdf
(it, 409 KB, 16/01/20)
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ModalitàDiEsame2020.pdf
(it, 327 KB, 30/01/20)
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Shell_EserciziScript.pdf
(it, 20 KB, 27/03/20)
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SystemCallLucidi.pdf
(it, 1538 KB, 15/04/20)
Type D and Type F activities
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Graduation
List of theses and work experience proposals
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| Correlated mutations | Various topics |
Attendance
As stated in point 25 of the Teaching Regulations for the A.Y. 2021/2022, attendance at the course of study is not mandatory.Please refer to the Crisis Unit's latest updates for the mode of teaching.
