MTE 241 - Computer Structures & Real-Time Systems

MTE 241

Memory Organization

• Memory Hierarchy
• Bus
• Registers
  • Instruction Decode Cycle
  • Cortex M4 Registers
• Cache
  • Memory Cycle and Memory Bottleneck
  • Cache Optimization
  • Cache Hit, Miss, Replacement
  • Cache Write Policy
  • Banked vs. Unified Cache
  • Multilevel Cache
  • Cortex M4 Cache

Memory Spaces, Mapping, and Protection

• Memory Space and Addresses
• Memory Maps
• Memory Blocks
• Virtual Memory and Paging
• Memory Mapped Input Output
• ARM Architeture

Operating Systems Theory

• OS Intro
• OS Resource Management
• RTOS
• Operating Modes
• Kernelspace and Userspace
• Concurrent vs Parallel
  • Concurrency Problems
• Executables and Threads
• System Calls

Kernels

• Kernel
• Microkernel
• Monolithic Kernel
• Modular Kernel

Programs

• Program vs. Process
• Executables
  • Executable Format

Processes

• Process Intro
• Model of Process in Memory
• Stack
  • Cortex M4 Stack
  • Reset Vector Table
• Heap Memory
• Application Binary Interface

Interrupts

• Interrupt
• Interrupt Flow
  • Interrupt Setup
  • Interrupt Execution
  • Interrupt Return
  • ISR Implementation
    • Re-entrant Functions
• Non-Maskable Interrupt

Multithreading

Scheduling

Time-Based Scheduling

Pre-Emptive Time-Based Scheduling

Synchronization

C language features/concepts

• Pointers
  • void Pointer
  • function Pointer
• C struct
• Memory Alignment
  • Bitfields
• typedef
• extern
• C include
• C define
• Compilation

Resources

• C Book
• A Little C Primer
• Operating Systems