FSU COP4610 / CGS 5765
Principles of Operating Systems (Fall 2025)
Instructor
Andy Wang
(aawang@fsu.edu)
Teaching Assistants
TBA
(cop4610t@cs.fsu.edu, subject: cop4610)
Textbook
Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 10th Edition
Announcements
[Aug 25] Welcome to COP4610!
Lecture Slides
Lecture 1 (8/26/2025)
Course Syllabus
(PDF)
Course Information
(PPT)
Introduction and History
(PPTX)
Lecture 2 (8/28/2025)
Concurrency: Threads, Address Spaces, and Processes
(PPTX)
Genesis: From Raw Hardware to Processes
(PPTX)
Homework 1 (posted on Canvas)
Reading: Chapters 1 and 2
Lecture 3 (9/2/2025)
CPU Scheduling
(PPT)
Reading: Chapter 5
Homework 2 (posted on Canvas)
Applying for Graduate Schools
(PPTX)
Lecture 4 (9/4/2025)
Round robin example
(PPT)
Cooperating Threads
(PPT)
Reading: Sections 4.1
Synchronization
(PPT)
Implementing Mutal Exclusion
(PPT)
Reading: Sections 6.4 - 6.5
Lecture 5 (9/9/2025)
Implementing Mutal Exclusion
(PPT)
Reading: Sections 6.4 - 6.5
Project 1 Hints
(PPT)
Semaphores and Bounded Buffer
(PPT)
More on Semaphores
(PPT)
Homework 3 (posted on Canvas)
Homework 4 (posted on Canvas)
Lecture 6 (9/11/2025)
Deadlocks
(PPT)
Reading: Chapter 8
Lecture 7 (9/16/2025)
Exam review
(PPT)
Lecture 8 (9/18/2025)
Exam 1 in class (please bring your ID)
Lecture 9 (9/23/2025)
Monitors, Condition Variables, and Readers-Writers
(PPT)
Reading: Section 7.1.1
Concurrency Conclusion
(PPT)
Optional: Why threads are a bad idea, by John Ousterhout
(PPTX)
Homework 5 (posted on Canvas)
Lecture 10 (9/25/2025)
Memory Protection
(PPT)
Address Translation
(PPT)
Homework 6 (posted on Canvas)
Reading: Sections 9.1 - 9.4
Lecture 11 (9/30/2025)
Project 2 release
Lecture 12 (10/2/2025)
Project Office Hours
Lecture 13 (10/7/2025)
Exam 1 Debrief
Lecture 14 (10/9/2025)
Address Translation
(PPT)
Lecture 15 (10/14/2025)
Caching and TLBs
(PPT)
Virtual Memory
(PPT)
Reading: Sections 10.1 - 10.6
Homework 7 (posted on Canvas)
Lecture 16 (10/16/2025)
Device Management and Disk Management
(PPT)
Reading: Sections 11.1-11.2, 12.1-12.4 File Systems
(PPT)
Reading: Sections 12.1 - 12.3, 13.1 - 13.4
Useful Resources
Discussion board
Lab resources
Lab Web page
Cross-Referecing Linux
Books
Arpaci-Dusseau, Arpaci-Dusseau, Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Kernighan, Ritchie,
The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
awang@cs.fsu.edu
Last modified on: January 1, 2025