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Table of Contents
Course Outline
The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:
Weeks 1 and 2
Introduction: examples of signals and systems in the continuous time (CT) domain, classification of CT signals and systems, elementary signals, signal operations, (chapters 1,2)
Week 3-4
Time-domain Analysis: Linear constant-coefficient differential equations; impulse response; convolutional integral. (Chapter 3)
Week 5-6
Frequency Analysis: Fourier series; CT Fourier transform; properties of Fourier transform; frequency response. (Chapters 4, 5)
Week 7-8
Laplace transform: Laplace transform; properties; Solution of differential equations; LTIC systems analysis using Laplace transform. (chapter 6)
Week 9-10
Process Synchronization (I): critical-section problem & example, bakery algorithm, Peterson’s solution. (chapter 6.1-6.3)
Midterm
Week 7
Process Synchronization (II): hardware solution, semaphore, classic problems (B-B, R-W,_ D-P); high-level tools (monitor). (chapter 6.4-6.8)
Week 8
Deadlock. (chapter 7)
Week 9
Memory Management (I): logical vs. physical memory, address binding, Contiguous memory allocation. (chapter 8.1-8.3)
Week 10
Memory Management (II): paging, segmentation, examples. (chapter 8.4-8.8)
Week 11
Virtual Memory: demand paging, replacement, thrashing. (chapter 9)
Week 12
Protection and Security (chapters 14 and 15)