Final Review

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Final Review

• CSE321
• B.Ramamurthy

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Date, Time and Place

• December 8, 2008
• 3.30 - 6.30PM
• Bell 138
• Please bring
• Pencils, pens and erasers.
• This is an open book and open notes exam.

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Topics

• C pointers and structs
• Peripherals and device driver fundamentals (and
  bit operations) Ch. 6 (Pink book)
• Multi-tasking
• Semaphores (xinu)
• Mutual exclusion
• Synchronization
• Real-time scheduling (multi-tasking)
• Priority inversion
• Priority inheritance
• Priority ceiling

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Topics (contd.)

• Address decoding, bus and memory mapped devices
• Task communications
• Signal and signal handlers Ch. 8 (Brown book)
• forks for creating multiple processes
• Pipes for communications
• Class diagram and sequence diagram
• XINU and WRT54GL (general information)
• 8. RMS and Deadline based scheduling

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Format

• One question per topic discussed above.
• Each question may have subsection

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How to study?

• Review class notes
• Understand homework problems and solutions
• Read the text books
• No programming but pseudo code may be required