15-410 Projects

Project Handouts

• Project 1
  • Project One Handout
  • Project One Support Code
  • Project One Hand-in Page
• Project 2
  • Project Two Lecture OpenOffice PPT PS PDF
  • Project Two Handout PDF PS
  • Project Two Support Code
  • Project Two Hand-in Page
  • update.pl
  • syscall_int.h
  • Index to PRCS documentation (for 1.3.2-cmu)
  • PRCS documentation (for 1.3.2-cmu)
  • Project Two note: this is a simplified version of Project 2 compared to what was given to OS students last semester. The necessary consequence, however, is that there have been changes to the assignment and to the documentation. It will be helpful to both you and us to look over the documentation soon and contact course staff for clarifications. It is likely that the .qa bboard will be the best venue for this.
• Project 3
  • Project Three Lecture PPT PDF
  • Project Three Handout PDF
  • Project Three Support Code
  • Index to PRCS documentation (for 1.3.2-cmu)
  • PRCS documentation (for 1.3.2-cmu)
  • Project Three Hand-in Page (covers checkpoints)
  • Project Three/Four Hurdle Page
• Project Four Options

Partner Registration

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Important Project-Related Documents

About your 15-410 AFS Space

Here we explain the care and feeding of your 15-410 AFS volume. In the event of trouble, please (re-)read this for advice.

15-410 Software Setup Guide

This is the installation guide for the software we'll be using in this course. It also contains information about some files you will commonly see in the Project tarball (such as the Makefile, update.pl, and simics-linux.sh).

Simics Command Guide

Our guide to useful Simics commands

Simics User Guide

This is Virtutech's "user manual" for Simics. It covers many different things (perhaps the single most important piece of information is the existence of the 'help' command in Simics). In order to view it, you need to register with Virtutech (this is free and usually fast).

Intel x86 documentation

These three Intel reference guides are extremely comprehensive and actually very well written. Do take the time to look over them, they will be useful in doing each of your projects. These documents are hundreds of pages - do NOT attempt to print them out (at least, not on a campus printer).

• Intel architecture guide. Explains the basic organization of the processor and fundamental concepts like the execution environment, procedure calls and interrupts, and I/O.

• Intel instruction set reference. A long volume documenting each x86 instruction.

• Intel system programming guide. Probably the most interesting of the three documents. Explains privilege levels, segmentation and paging, how to handle interrupts and exceptions, and a host of other things.

x86 Segmentation for the 15-410 student

We don't expect you to fully use the massive crushing power possessed by the IA32 memory management hardware, so you may find this Segmentation Handout useful.

Advice on the dreaded "triple fault"

"Triple fault" isn't a problem per se, but a general class of problems. You may wish to consult our Triple-Fault Advice Page.

PRCS revision control software

• PRCS Sourceforge Site
• PRCS Documentation (for 1.3.2 original)

Doxygen Documentation System

• Doxygen Site
• 15-410: Doxygen Documentation

[Last modified Saturday January 10, 2004]