I/O Systems and Device Management

4 hours

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Session Overview

Advanced I/O systems including I/O hardware, application I/O interface, kernel I/O subsystem, device drivers, and performance optimization techniques.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, you should be able to:

Master I/O hardware components: buses, controllers, ports, and device registers
Understand polling, interrupt-driven I/O, and Direct Memory Access (DMA)
Implement I/O software layers: interrupt handlers, device drivers, device-independent I/O
Design buffering, caching, and spooling mechanisms for I/O optimization
Analyze block and character device interfaces
Apply I/O scheduling and performance optimization techniques

Course Materials

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I/O Systems Complete Reference (70 pages)

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Device Driver Architecture and Implementation

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DMA Controller Operation and Programming

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Interrupt Handling and I/O Processing

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Buffer Management and I/O Optimization

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Linux Device Driver Development Tutorial

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I/O Performance Analysis and Tuning

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Device Driver Programming Project

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