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Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)
CS 61C at UC Berkeley with Dan Garcia, Peyrin Kao - Fall 2024
Lecture: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 10:00AM - 11:00AM PT, Dwinelle 155
Recordings will be published to bCourses Media Gallery
Week | Date | Lecture | Discussion | Lab | HW | Project |
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1 | Tue 8/27 | Lecture 0: Intro, Great Ideas | ||||
Wed 8/28 | Lecture 1: Number Representation | Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 9/03 | ||||
Thu 8/29 | ||||||
Fri 8/30 | Lecture 2: C Intro - Basics | Homework 1 Due 9/06 | Project 1: snek Due 9/12 | |||
2 | Mon 9/2 | No Lecture: Holiday | ||||
Tue 9/3 |
Discussion 1: C, Number Rep
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Wed 9/4 |
Lecture 3: C Intro - Pointers, Arrays, Strings
Readings:
K&R 5-6
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Lab 1: C Due 9/05 | ||||
Thu 9/5 | ||||||
Fri 9/6 |
Lecture 4: C Memory Management
Readings:
K&R 7.8.5, 8.7
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3 | Mon 9/9 |
Lecture 5: C Generics
Readings:
K&R 7.8.5, 8.7
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Discussion 2: C
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Homework 2 Due 9/17 | ||
Tue 9/10 | ||||||
Wed 9/11 |
Lecture 6: Floating Point
Readings:
IEEE 754 Simulator
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Lab 2: C Debugging Due 9/11 | ||||
Thu 9/12 | ||||||
Fri 9/13 |
Lecture 7: RISC-V Basics
Readings:
P&H 2.1-2.3
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Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 9/19 B: Due 10/03 | ||||
4 | Mon 9/16 |
Lecture 8: RISC-V Data Transfer
Readings:
P&H 2.9, 2.10
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Discussion 3 | |||
Tue 9/17 | ||||||
Wed 9/18 |
Lecture 9: RISC-V Decision Making
Readings:
P&H 2.6, 2.7, 3.2
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Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 9/18 | Homework 3 Due 9/24 | |||
Thu 9/19 | ||||||
Fri 9/20 |
Lecture 10: RISC-V Procedures
Readings:
P&H 2.8
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5 | Mon 9/23 |
Lecture 11: RISC-V Instruction Formats I
Readings:
P&H 2.5, 2.10
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Discussion 4 | |||
Tue 9/24 | ||||||
Wed 9/25 |
Lecture 12: RISC-V Instruction Formats II
Readings:
P&H 2.5, 2.10
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Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 9/26 | Homework 4 Due 10/01 | |||
Thu 9/26 | ||||||
Fri 9/27 |
Lecture 13: Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader
Readings:
P&H 2.12
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6 | Mon 9/30 |
Lecture 14: Intro to SDS
Readings:
SDS Handout
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Discussion 5 | |||
Tue 10/1 | ||||||
Wed 10/2 |
Lecture 15: Combinational Logic
Readings:
Blocks Handout
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Homework 5 Due 10/15 | ||||
Thu 10/3 | ||||||
Fri 10/4 | Lecture 16: State and Registers | Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 10/24 B: Due 11/07 | ||||
7 | Mon 10/7 |
Lecture 17: Combinational Blocks: MUX and ALU
Readings:
P&H 4.1, 4.3
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Discussion 6 | |||
Tue 10/8 | ||||||
Wed 10/9 |
Lecture 18: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath I
Readings:
P&H 4.4
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Thu 10/10 | ||||||
Fri 10/11 | Lecture 19: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath II | |||||
8 | Mon 10/14 | No lecture: Midterm 8-10PM PT | ||||
Tue 10/15 | ||||||
Wed 10/16 |
Lecture 20: RISC-V Single-Cycle Control
Readings:
P&H 4.6–4.8
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Lab 5: Logisim Due 10/17 | Homework 6 Due 10/22 | |||
Thu 10/17 | ||||||
Fri 10/18 |
Lecture 21: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline I
Readings:
P&H 4.8, 4.10
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9 | Mon 10/21 |
Lecture 22: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline II
Readings:
P&H 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.10
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Discussion 7 | |||
Tue 10/22 | ||||||
Wed 10/23 | Lecture 23: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline III | Homework 7 Due 10/29 | ||||
Thu 10/24 | ||||||
Fri 10/25 | Lecture 24: Caches I | |||||
10 | Mon 10/28 | Lecture 25: Caches II | Discussion 8 | |||
Tue 10/29 | ||||||
Wed 10/30 | Lecture 26: Caches III | Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 10/31 | Homework 8 Due 11/12 | |||
Thu 10/31 | ||||||
Fri 11/1 | Lecture 27: Caches IV | |||||
11 | Mon 11/4 | Lecture 28: Parallelism I - Intro, Amdalh's Law | Discussion 9 | |||
Tue 11/5 | ||||||
Wed 11/6 | Lecture 29: Parallelism II - SIMD | |||||
Thu 11/7 | ||||||
Fri 11/8 | Lecture 30: Parallelism III - TLP | Project 4: CS61kaChow Due 11/21 | ||||
12 | Mon 11/11 | No lecture: Holiday | ||||
Tue 11/12 | Discussion 10 | |||||
Wed 11/13 | Lecture 31: Parallelism IV - Concurrency | Lab 7: Parallelism Due 11/14 | Homework 9 Due 11/26 | |||
Thu 11/14 | ||||||
Fri 11/15 | Lecture 32: Parallelism V - PLP | |||||
13 | Mon 11/18 |
Lecture 33: Guest Lecture
Readings:
P&H 5.7, 5.8
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Discussion 11 | |||
Tue 11/19 | ||||||
Wed 11/20 |
Lecture 34: Virtual Memory I
Readings:
P&H 5.7-5.8
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Thu 11/21 | ||||||
Fri 11/22 | Lecture 35: Virtual Memory II | |||||
14 | Mon 11/25 | [HW Only] Lecture 36: MapReduce, OS | Discussion 12 | |||
Tue 11/26 | ||||||
Wed 11/27 | No Lecture: Holiday | Homework 10 Due 12/03 | ||||
Thu 11/28 | ||||||
Fri 11/29 | No Lecture: Holiday | |||||
15 | Mon 12/2 | [HW Only] Lecture 37: ECC / RAID | Discussion 13 | |||
Tue 12/3 | ||||||
Wed 12/4 | [HW Only] Lecture 38: I/O, Warehouse-Scale Computing | |||||
Thu 12/5 | ||||||
Fri 12/6 | Lecture 39: Summary, What's Next? | |||||
16 | Mon 12/9 | RRR Week | ||||
Tue 12/10 | RRR Week | |||||
Wed 12/11 | RRR Week | |||||
Thu 12/12 | RRR Week | |||||
Fri 12/13 | RRR Week | |||||
17 | Mon 12/16 | Final: 8-11AM PT |