System Software

Paper Code: 
MCA 425F
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To understand the basic design of various system software.
  • To understand the relationship between system software and machine architecture.
12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to System Software and Software Tools

Language Processing Activities, Fundamentals   of Language Processing & Language Specification, Language Processor Development Tools, Types of device Drivers

14.00
Unit II: 
Software Tools

Software Tools for Program Development, Editors, Debug Monitors, Programming Environments, User Interfaces.

10.00
Unit III: 
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.

12.00
Unit IV: 
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.   

12.00
Unit V: 
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

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  • 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.
REFERENCES: 
  • 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.
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