Lectures related to Midrange computer

Explores the power of registers and arrays in computer systems.

Delves into alternative programming methods for the Thymio robot and the integration of a Raspberry Pi for enhanced capabilities.

Threads: Concurrency and Parallelism in Computer Systems

Covers the thread abstraction in computer systems, focusing on concurrency, parallelism, and the management of threads using the POSIX API.

The Role of Operating Systems: Foundations and Functions

Covers the essential role of operating systems in managing hardware and enabling applications across various devices.

Principles of Computer Systems: Fundamentals & Abstractions

Covers the fundamentals of building computer systems, emphasizing modularity, abstraction, and scalability in system design.

Performance: Hardware and Software Optimization

Explores hardware and software optimization for system performance, emphasizing the importance of reducing delay per gate and improving architecture.

Locking Primitives: Avoiding Race Conditions in Threads

Covers locking primitives necessary to prevent race conditions in multithreaded programming, focusing on mutual exclusion and atomic operations.

Shell Redirection: Understanding Process Management

Covers how the shell manages processes and demonstrates output redirection in UNIX-like systems.

Persistent Storage: Understanding Magnetic Disks and Their Performance

Covers persistence in computer science, focusing on magnetic disks and their performance characteristics, including seek time, rotational latency, and disk scheduling algorithms.

Exceptions: Control Flow and Handling

Explores exceptions, interrupts, faults, and their handling in computer systems, emphasizing the complexities of writing exception handlers.

Fragmentation and Segmentation: Memory Management Techniques

Covers fragmentation and segmentation, focusing on memory management techniques and their implications for system performance.

Basic Cache Coherence

Introduces the basics of cache coherence, covering cache organization, coherence protocols, and challenges in multi-level cache hierarchies.

Memory Management: Address Space Abstraction

Explains address space abstraction, focusing on memory management, stack and heap structures, and their roles in dynamic memory allocation.

Virtualization Principles: Mechanisms and Applications

Covers the principles and mechanisms of virtualization, including multiplexing, aggregation, and emulation, with a focus on virtual memory implementation.

Information Systems: Overview

Covers the overview of information systems, data modeling, managing data, and the distinction between data and information.

Memory Virtualization: Page-Based Management Techniques

Discusses page-based virtual memory, focusing on its mechanisms, benefits, and address translation techniques.

Aggregation and Emulation: Resource Management in Computer Systems

Covers aggregation and emulation techniques for managing computer system resources effectively.