Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

CS61C at UC Berkeley with Justin Yokota - Summer 2026

Lecture: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday 2:00PM - 3:30PM PT, Dwinelle 155
Recordings will be published to bCourses Media Gallery

Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Lab	HW	Project
1	Mon 6/22	Lecture 1: Syllabus/Number Rep/Misconduct Readings: Number Rep Slides		Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 6/26
	Tue 6/23	Lecture 2: C Basics - Pointers & Arrays Readings: C Basics Slides			Homework 1: Number Representation + C Due 7/01
	Wed 6/24	Lecture 3: C - String & Memory Readings: Pointers & Arrays, C Memory Slides
	Thu 6/25	Lecture 4: C - Generics Readings: C Memory, C Odds and Ends, C Generics Slides	Discussion 1: Number Rep Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)	Lab 1: C Due 6/30		Project 1: snek Due 7/03
	Fri 6/26
2	Mon 6/29	Lecture 5: Floating Point Readings: Floating Point Slides	Discussion 2: C Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)	Lab 2: C Debugging Due 7/02
	Tue 6/30	Lecture 6: Floating Point, RISC-V I Readings: Floating Point, RISC-V Intro Slides
	Wed 7/1	Lecture 7: RISC-V II Readings: RISC-V Data Transfer, RISC-V Decision Making Slides	Discussion 3: C + FP Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)
	Thu 7/2	Lecture 8: RISC-V III Readings: RISC-V Procedures Slides		Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 7/07	Homework 2: FP + RISC-V Due 7/08
	Fri 7/3
3	Mon 7/6	No Lecture: Holiday	No Discussion: Holiday			Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 7/10 B: Due 7/21
	Tue 7/7	Lecture 9: RISC-V Instruction Formats Readings: Instruction Formats Slides
	Wed 7/8	Lecture 10: RISC-V Instruction Formats II and CALL Readings: Instruction Formats II, CALL Slides	Discussion 4: RISC-V Precheck Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)	Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 7/14
	Thu 7/9	Lecture 11: CALL & SDS I Readings: SDS Intro Slides			Homework 3: CALL + Logic Due 7/15
	Fri 7/10
4	Mon 7/13	Lecture 12: SDS II Readings: Slides	Discussion 5: Instruction Translation & CALL Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)
	Tue 7/14	Lecture 13: SDS III Readings: Slides
	Wed 7/15	Lecture 14: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath Readings: Slides	Discussion 6: Boolean Algebra + SDS Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)	Lab 5: Logisim Due 7/21
	Thu 7/16	Lecture 15: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath Controls Readings: Slides			Homework 4: Datapath Due 7/22
	Fri 7/17
5	Mon 7/20	Lecture 16: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipelining I Readings: Slides	Discussion 7: Datapath Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)	Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 7/24
	Tue 7/21	Lecture 17: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipelining II Readings: Slides
	Wed 7/22	Lecture 18: Caches I Readings: Slides	Discussion 8: Midterm Review			Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 7/30 B: Due 8/06
	Thu 7/23	No lecture: Midterm		Lab 7: Parallelism Due 8/04	Homework 5: Performance + Caches Due 7/29
	Fri 7/24
6	Mon 7/27	Lecture 19: Caches II Readings: Slides	Discussion 9: Pipelining Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources Videos (SP24)
	Tue 7/28	Lecture 20: Parallelism I Readings: Slides
	Wed 7/29	Lecture 21: Parallelism II Readings: Slides	Discussion 10: Caches
	Thu 7/30	Lecture 22: Parallelism III Readings:		OPTIONAL: Lab 8 / Project 4: 61kaChow Due 8/04	Homework 6: Parallelism Due 8/05
	Fri 7/31
7	Mon 8/3	Lecture 23: VM I Readings:	Discussion 11: DLP/TLP
	Tue 8/4	Lecture 24: VM II Readings:
	Wed 8/5	Lecture 25: Wrap-Up Readings:	Discussion 12: Caches/VM
	Thu 8/6	Lecture 26: TBD Readings:			Homework 7: VM Due 8/10
	Fri 8/7
8	Mon 8/10	No Lecture
	Tue 8/11	No Lecture
	Wed 8/12	Final
	Thu 8/13	No Lecture
	Fri 8/14	No Lecture