Resources

Common Errors

We have compiled a list of common errors you might run into for this course.

Exams

See the exam resources page.

Textbooks

• Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition, 1st or 2nd ed. by David Patterson, and John Hennessy
• The C Programming Language, 2nd ed. by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
• The Datacenter as a Computer by Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle (PDF)

Reference Cards

• CS 61C Reference Card: PDF
  • v2.0.0: Fixed note about sltiu's immediate sign extension
  • v3.0.0: Update datapath to match lecture
    • Single-cycle: Moved immediate generator to be physically under the regfile, though no behavioral changes.
    • Pipelined: Moved immediate generator from EX to ID
    • Pipelined: Moved WBMux from MEM to WB, and modified the relevant pipeline registers
  • v4.0.0: Fix pipelined control logic errors
    • Move ImmSel to ID's control logic
    • Move PCSel to MEM's control logic
  • v4.0.1: Move ECC page to end
  • v5.0.0: Remove ECC page, combine datapath pages to one page, change instruction descriptions to be more similar to textbook standards
  • v5.0.1: Fix two typos, rename elements on the datapath
• GDB Reference Card: PDF
• Venus Reference: HTML

Review Notes by Topic

Number Representation

• Sean Farhat's number rep notes
• Anusha's number rep notes
• Allan Yu's floating point notes

C

• Prof. Harvey's notes on C
• Prof. Hilfinger's notes on memory management

RISC-V

• Nick Riasanovsky's calling convention notes
• Sruthi's Verilog notes

SDS, Boolean Algebra, FSMs

• Prof. Wawryznek's notes on state, blocks, SDS, and boolean logic