Lectures related to Limited Direct Execution: Operating System Control Techniques

Process Protection and Efficient Execution

Explores process execution, protection, and efficient OS mechanisms for secure and reliable multi-program environments.

Architecture Essentials: Understanding Computer Systems

Provides an overview of computer architecture, focusing on the von Neumann architecture and its components, including the CPU and memory management units.

The Role of Operating Systems: Foundations and Functions

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

Process Abstraction: Managing Execution and Resources

Covers process abstraction in operating systems, focusing on execution management and resource allocation for concurrent program execution.

Register Renaming: Techniques and Architectures

Covers register renaming techniques essential for eliminating execution hazards in modern processors.

Isolation and Protection: Ensuring Process Security

Covers the concepts of isolation and protection in computer systems, focusing on process security and resource management techniques.

Virtual Machine Monitor: Construction and Functionality

Explains the construction and functionality of a Virtual Machine Monitor, focusing on virtualization techniques and memory management.

VLIW Architectures: Compilers and Instruction Level Parallelism

Covers VLIW architectures and compilers, focusing on instruction level parallelism and optimization techniques.

Dynamic Scheduling in Processors: Enhancing Instruction Execution

Covers dynamic scheduling in processors, focusing on out-of-order execution and managing instruction dependencies effectively.

Processes: Overview and Management

Covers the basics of processes in operating systems, including creation, memory layout, state transitions, virtualization, APIs, and program execution.

Booting and x86

Explores the booting process, x86 architecture, memory referencing, I/O communication, ATA commands, and memory-mapped I/O.

Virtual Memory: Principles and Mechanisms

Covers the principles and mechanisms of virtual memory in computer systems, focusing on isolation, efficiency, and the role of the Memory Management Unit.

Traps and Interrupts: Mechanisms for Operating System Control

Explains traps, interrupts, and exceptions, detailing their roles in operating system control and process management.

MIPS Functions and Stack

Explains MIPS functions, stack usage, calling convention, and register management.

Isolation mechanisms

Explores isolation mechanisms in operating systems, focusing on process separation and hardware isolation in x86 architecture.

X86 and ARM: Processors Evolution and Microarchitectures

Explores the evolution and microarchitectures of x86 and ARM processors, from early designs to modern advancements.

Memory Virtualization: Page-Based Management Techniques

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

Memory Virtualization: Address Space Abstraction and Management

Covers memory virtualization, focusing on address space abstraction and the management of memory resources by the operating system.

Shell and OS organization

Covers system calls, kernel space, process management, file descriptors, pipes, and hardware isolation in OS organization.

Virtualization Principles: Mechanisms and Applications

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