1. Final Review
CSE321
B.Ramamurthy
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B.Ramamurthy

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Format One question per topic discussed above.
Each question may have subsection
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6. How to study? Review class notes
Understand homework problems and solutions
Read the text books
No programming: but pseudo code may be required
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