ECE153A Outline (revised on 10/9/2001)

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Date	Topic	Reading	Note
9/25	Lab introduction and signup	-	Covered by Anshuman
9/27	Course overview	OSC #1, #2	Lecture Notes
10/2	Real-time Applications - Interactive DTV	-	Covered by Raju, Zoran, and Anshuman
10/4	Major hardware blocks, instruction sets	-	Lecture Notes, Covered by Prof. Wang
10/9	Interrupts, system calls, process creation/termination	OSC #3	Lecture Notes
10/11	Processes and threads, Lab assignment I	OSC #4, #5	Lecture Notes
10/16	Process scheduling	OSC #6	Lecture Notes
10/18	Real-time systems	Handout	Lecture Notes
10/23	Real-time scheduling	Handout	Same as above
10/25	Real-time scheduling	-	NA
10/30	IO scheduling	OSC #13, #14
11/1	Midterm review
11/6	Midterm	-
11/8	File systems	OSC #12
11/13	Device drivers I	Handout
11/15	Device drivers II	Handout
11/20	Memory management, DMA	OSC #9, #10	Covered by Anshuman
11/22	Thanksgivings holoday
11/27	Power management	Handout
11/29	Hardware software co-design	Handout
12/4	Course review	Handout
12/7-14	Final	-