Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

CS61C at UC Berkeley with Dan Garcia - Fall 2026

Lecture: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 11:00AM - 12:00PM PT, Gateway 1210
Recordings will be published to bCourses Media Gallery

Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Lab	HW	Project
1	Wed 8/26	Lecture 1: Intro, Great Ideas		Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 8/28
	Thu 8/27				Homework 1: Number Representation Due 9/01
	Fri 8/28	Lecture 2: Number Representation
2	Mon 8/31	Lecture 3: C Intro - Basics	Discussion 1: Number Rep
	Tue 9/1
	Wed 9/2	Lecture 4: C Intro - Pointers, Arrays, Strings		Lab 1: C Due 9/08	Homework 2: C Due 9/08	Project 1: snek Due 9/18
	Thu 9/3
	Fri 9/4	Lecture 5: C Memory Management
3	Mon 9/7	No Lecture: Holiday
	Tue 9/8		Discussion 2: C & Memory Management
	Wed 9/9	Lecture 6: C Generics		Lab 2: C Debugging Due 9/10	Homework 3: C, Floating Point Warm Up Due 9/22
	Thu 9/10
	Fri 9/11	Lecture 7: C Abstract Data Types
4	Mon 9/14	Lecture 8: Floating Point	Discussion 3: C, Floating Point, IEC
	Tue 9/15
	Wed 9/16	Lecture 9: RISC-V Basics & Quest (9/16 - 9/18)		Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 9/17
	Thu 9/17
	Fri 9/18	Lecture 10: RISC-V Data Transfer
5	Mon 9/21	Lecture 11: RISC-V Decision Making	Discussion 4: RISC-V			Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 9/24 B: Due 10/08
	Tue 9/22
	Wed 9/23	Lecture 12: RISC-V Procedures			Homework 4: RISC-V Due 10/02
	Thu 9/24
	Fri 9/25	Lecture 13: RISC-V Instruction Formats I
6	Mon 9/28	Lecture 14: RISC-V Instruction Formats II	Discussion 5: RISC-V Calling Convention
	Tue 9/29
	Wed 9/30	Lecture 15: Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader		Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 10/01
	Thu 10/1
	Fri 10/2	Lecture 16: Intro to SDS
7	Mon 10/5	Lecture 17: Combinational Logic	Discussion 6: Instruction Translation, CALL		Homework 5: CALL, SDS Due 10/13
	Tue 10/6
	Wed 10/7	Lecture 18: State
	Thu 10/8
	Fri 10/9	Lecture 19: Blocks and ALU				Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 10/21 B: Due 11/05
8	Mon 10/12	Lecture 20: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath I	Discussion 7: Boolean Algebra, SDS, FSM
	Tue 10/13
	Wed 10/14	Lecture 21: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath II		Lab 5: Logisim Due 10/15	Homework 6: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath Due 10/20
	Thu 10/15
	Fri 10/16	Lecture 22: RISC-V Single-Cycle Control
9	Mon 10/19	Lecture 23: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline I	Discussion 8: Datapath
	Tue 10/20
	Wed 10/21	Lecture 24: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline II			Homework 7: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline Due 10/30
	Thu 10/22
	Fri 10/23	Lecture 25: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline III
10	Mon 10/26	Lecture 26: Caches I: Performance
	Tue 10/27
	Wed 10/28	Lecture 27: Caches II & Midterm 1 (10/28 - 10/30)		Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 10/29
	Thu 10/29
	Fri 10/30	Lecture 28: Caches III
11	Mon 11/2	Lecture 29: Caches IV	Discussion 9: Pipelining, Hazards		Homework 8: Hardware Performance, Caching Due 11/10
	Tue 11/3
	Wed 11/4	Lecture 30: Parallelism I - Performance, Amdahl's Law
	Thu 11/5
	Fri 11/6	Lecture 31: Parallelism II - SIMD
12	Mon 11/9	Lecture 32: Parallelism III - TLP & Midterm 2 (11/9 - 11/13)	Discussion 10: Caches
	Tue 11/10
	Wed 11/11	No Lecture: Holiday			Homework 9: Parallelism Due 11/17
	Thu 11/12
	Fri 11/13	Lecture 33: Parallelism IV - Concurrency
13	Mon 11/16	Lecture 34: Parallelism V	Discussion 11: Parallelism
	Tue 11/17
	Wed 11/18	Lecture 35: Virtual Memory I		Lab 7: Parallelism Due 11/19	Homework 10: Virtual Memory Due 12/01
	Thu 11/19
	Fri 11/20	Lecture 36: Virtual Memory II
14	Mon 11/23	Lecture 37: [Guest Lecture] - TBD	Discussion 12: More Parallelism, VM
	Tue 11/24
	Wed 11/25	No Lecture: Holiday
	Thu 11/26
	Fri 11/27	No Lecture: Holiday
15	Mon 11/30	Lecture 38: [Guest Lecture] - TBD	Discussion 13: Virtual Memory
	Tue 12/1
	Wed 12/2	Lecture 39: [Guest Lecture] - TBD		OPTIONAL: Lab 8 / Project 4: 61kaChow Due 12/14
	Thu 12/3
	Fri 12/4	Lecture 40: Summary, What's Next?
16	Mon 12/7	RRR Week
	Tue 12/8	RRR Week
	Wed 12/9	RRR Week
	Thu 12/10	RRR Week
	Fri 12/11	RRR Week
17	Mon 12/14	Final: 11:30AM-2:30PM PT