DEV300 A Tiny CPU and OS in C#.ppt

DEV300: A Tiny CPU and OS in C# Scott Hanselman Technology Evangelist/Architect Corillian Corporationscott@ Tiny CPU and OSDesign Goals Creation of an Abstract Machine Simulate Running and Scheduling of Processes Provide Paging, Virtual Memory, Memory Protection Each Process scheduled independently Inter-process Communication Tiny CPU and OSDisclaimer Goals Meant to teach C# and exercise libraries Meant to teach basic OS/CPU concepts Meant to simulate OS behaviors NOT GOALS Not meant to get any work done Not meant as a “perfect” simulation CPU and OS The CPU is a 32-bit machine all addresses and registers are 32-bits CPU 10 registers 32-bits wide IP – Instruction Pointer SP – Stack Pointer OS 32 basic OpCodes Each OpCode takes 1 clock cycle Basic DesignObject mapping to actual OS/CPU pieces Basic DesignObject mapping to actual OS/CPU pieces CPU and OS Executed like this from command-line: C: OS 2048 prog1.txt prog2.txt Many Configuration options configuration appSettings add key=PhysicalMemory value=128 / add key=ProcessMemory value=384 / add key=DumpPhysicalMemory value=true / add key=DumpInstruction value=true / add key=DumpRegisters value=true / add key=MemoryPageSize value=16 / add key=StackSize value=16 / add key=DataSize value=16 / /appSettings /configuration Instruction Set Example Example Idle Loop Demo: Basic Programs Manipulating Registers Moving Memory, using the Stack Small Functions Inter-process Communication Tiny OS Memory “Physical Memory” just array of bytes internal static byte[] physicalMemory; Virtual Memory may be much larger! But each Process has it’s own “view” Virtual Memory hidden in code via [] Operator Overloading Tiny OS Memory Tiny OS Memory Tiny OS Memory with small physical memory and paging Tiny OS Memory memory becomes fragmented Major Elements (1 of 2) Typed Collections Generated by Tool unsafe code Like “inline C” Delegates Object-Oriented Function Pointers Object Serialization Memory Page