CSE321
B.Ramamurthy
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December 15, 2009
3.30 - 6.30PM
NSC 222
Please bring
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Pencils, pens and erasers.
This is an open book and open notes exam.
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C pointers and structs (class notes) ( this and that )
2.
Peripherals and device driver fundamentals
(and bit operations): Ch. 7 and framebuffer, uart driver
3.
Multi-tasking:
1.
2.
Semaphores (xinu)
Mutual exclusion
3.
Synchronization
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Cyclic executives and designing cyclic schedule
6.
Task communications
5.
Signal and signal handlers
6.
forks for creating multiple processes
(pingpong.c)
7.
Designing with finite state machines (FSM): word problem to design represented as FSM
8.
XINU and WRT54GL (general information)
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One question per topic discussed above.
Each question may have subsection
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Review class notes
Understand homework problems and solutions
No programming: but pseudo code may be required
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