Exploring Operating System Fundamentals

Name: Exploring Operating System Fundamentals
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Virtual Memory and Input/Output Management

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Created byDr. Poornima Selvaraj

Last updated 8/2025

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What you'll learn

understand the basic concepts of operating system
Explore the virtual memory in details
Learning the basics of Input Output management
Gaining knowledge on memory management

Course content

2 sections • 27 lectures • 6h 16m total length

Introduction to Operating System12:26
Explore how an operating system mediates user and hardware communication, allocates resources, and coordinates program execution, from bootstrapping with firmware to the kernel and system software.
Computer System Oraganization25:26
Explore how computer hardware and the operating system coordinate input, output, and memory, including devices, buffers, drivers, interrupt handling, DMA, and secondary and tertiary storage.
Computer System Architecture15:51
This lecture explains computer system architecture, from cores and CPUs to multiprocessor and cluster designs, covering symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing, shared memory, fault tolerance, and SAN storage.
Operating System Operations14:17
Boots from ROM into main memory, loads the kernel, and starts system services. Covers trap handling, system calls, multiprogramming and multitasking, and user versus kernel modes.
Resource Management13:28
Explore how the operating system manages resources—processes, memory, and storage—through CPU scheduling, memory management, disk scheduling, and file system management with access control.
Protection and Security4:24
Explore how protection enforces user authorization while security safeguards data, and see how usernames, passwords, group access, and read or modify permissions govern banking app access.
Kernel Data Structures23:42
Explore kernel data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees (binary, binary search), hash functions and maps, and bitmaps in main memory, focusing on space and time complexity.
Computing Environment19:56
Explore evolving computing environments, from client-server and peer-to-peer networks to cloud and mobile computing, and examine real-time embedded systems with sensors and IoT.
Operating System Services13:03
Explore free software, open source software, and hybrid systems with examples like Gentoo and macOS. Understand operating system services, including user interfaces, program execution, I/O, file systems, and security.
System Calls and Types of System Calls18:53
Learn how system calls and APIs let user programs access operating system services, perform read and write operations, and support categories like process control and file management.
System Programs8:26
Discover how system software provides file management, compilation, linking, and loading to convert main.c into an executable, and how it enables runtime process communication via virtual connections.
Operating System Design and Implementation8:17
Explore operating system design and implementation by examining user and system goals, policy versus mechanism, and how low-level implementations in assembly and C shape kernels, drivers, and schedulers.
Operating System Structure15:54
Explore operating system structures: monolithic, layered, modular, and microkernel, and learn how these designs affect performance, extensibility, debugging, and portability.
Operating System Debugging11:21
Learn debugging and performance tuning for operating systems via failure analysis, crash dumps, and log files, and monitor with tracing tools such as ps, top, vmstat, iostat, and BPF.
Building and Booting an Operating System11:29
Explore how to build and boot an operating system from source, configure the kernel, compile and install steps, and the boot process from bootstrap to root filesystem.

Process Concepts19:15
Explore how the operating system manages processes, memory layouts (text, data, heap, stack), and CPU scheduling. Understand process states, process control blocks, and threading concepts, including multithreading on multi-core systems.
Process Scheduling14:16
Explore how multiprogramming maximizes CPU utilization by managing ready and wait queues, differentiating CPU bound and input-output bound processes, and performing context switches and preemption.
Operations on Processes13:07
Explore how processes are created and terminated, including parent and child relationships, fork and exec, and resource allocation for child processes, process IDs, plus concepts like zombie and orphan processes.
Interprocess Communication5:50
Examine inter-process communication between independent and cooperating processes, highlighting information sharing and modularity, and compare shared memory versus message passing as methods of data exchange.
Communication in Client-Server Systems14:35
Explore client-server communication using sockets and remote procedure calls, including IP and port addressing, connection oriented and connectionless models, marshalling, and reliability mechanisms like at most once and exactly once.
Threads and Multicore Programming14:59
Explore threads and multicore programming, comparing single-threaded and multi-threaded processes, and explain concurrency, parallelism, synchronization, load balancing, and speedup via Amdahl's law.
Multithreading Models5:21
Explore multithreading models, many-to-one, one-to-one, and many-to-many, and how user and kernel threads interact under user and kernel modes.
Thread Libraries10:44
Explore thread libraries and their APIs for creating and managing threads in multithreaded environments, including user and kernel space, and examples using Pthreads, asynchronous or synchronous threading, and join.
Implicit Threading17:15
Explore implicit threading in operating systems, including thread libraries, thread pools, and fork-join, with OpenMP, Grand Central Dispatch, and TBB for efficient concurrent execution.
Threading Issues13:56
Explore threading issues including fork and exec behavior, signal handling, asynchronous and deferred cancellation, and the role of thread local storage in user and kernel thread mappings.
Process Synchronization and Critical-Section(CS) Problem10:02
Learn how process synchronization prevents data inconsistency and race conditions by regulating access to shared data and critical sections with mutual exclusion, progress, bounded waiting, and kernel modes.
Solutions to CS Problem - Peterson's Solution, Hardware Support and Mutex Locks20:20
Explore solutions to the critical section problem, from Peterson's software algorithm to hardware approaches using test and set, compare and swap, and mutex locks.

Requirements

Basic hardware knowledge about computers
No programming experience needed

Description

An operating system course typically covers fundamental concepts and advanced topics related to operating systems, which are essential software that manage computer hardware resources and provide services for computer programs. Operating system courses typically combine theoretical knowledge with practical exercises to give students a comprehensive understanding of how operating systems work, their design principles, and their role in modern computing environments. The course may also explore recent trends and emerging technologies in operating system design and implementation. A deep dive on Virtual memory concept, paging, segmentation is performed in this course so a complete knowledge regarding virtual memory can be gained. I/O hardware components, Device management, buffering, caching gives a basic idea on input and output management. Students may clearly understand how memory and device management is performed in real time operating systems. The page replacement algorithms helps students to understand how swapping mechanisms are done and how the operating system manages multi programming by swapping the pages among various process in the system. Similarly how cache memory is managed to provide frequently used pages to the processor. By having these basic knowledge students can code these operations for practice. More contents are planned to upload in future covering all topics in operating systems

Who this course is for:

Engineering students who have the basic knowledge on computer architecture
Students who are curious to learn about the hardware and system software interpretations
Those who are interested to learn in depth about virtual memory

Exploring Operating System Fundamentals

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Introduction to Operating Syatems and Basic Functions15 lectures • 3hr 37min

Process Management12 lectures • 2hr 40min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: