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System Software
· To understand the basic design of various system software.
To understand the relationship between system software and machine architecture.
Introduction to System Software and Software Tools: Language Processing Activities, Fundamentals of Language Processing & Language Specification, Language Processor Development Tools, Types of device Drivers
Software Tools: Software Tools for Program Development, Editors, Debug Monitors, Programming Environments, User Interfaces.
Assemblers: Basic Assembler functions - Elements of Assembly Language Programming, A Simple Assembly Scheme, A simple SIC assembler , Assembler algorithm and data structures , Machine dependent assembler features , Machine independent assembler features , Literals , Symbol-defining statements , Expressions, Pass Structure of Assemblers, One pass assemblers and Multi pass assemblers - Implementation example.
Macro Processors: Macro definition and Call , Macro Definition and Expansion, Macro Processor, Algorithm and data structures , Machine-independent macro processor features , Nested Macro Calls, Advanced Macro Facilities, Design of a Macro Preprocessor., MASM Macro Processor – ANSI C Macro language.
Compiler and Interpreter: Phases of the Compiler, Aspects of compilation, Memory allocation, Compilation of expressions and control structures, Introduction of Code optimization, Interpreters: Use and overview of interpreters, Pure and impure interpreters.
- Leland L. Beck, “System Software an Introduction to Systems Programming”, 3rdEdition, Pearson Education Asia, 2000.
- Nithyashri, System Software, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2nd edition, 2010.
·John J. Donovan “Systems Programming”, Tata McGraw-Hill Edition, 1972.
·John R. Levine, “Linkers & Loaders”, Harcourt India Pvt. Ltd., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.
·Aho, Sethi, Ullman, “Compiler Principles, Techniques and Tools”, Pearson Education, 2007.
