Resources

Textbooks

• Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition, 1st 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
• GDB Reference Card: PDF
• Venus Reference: HTML

Reference card changelog:

• 1.0.0 released 2022-02-09: Initial release
• 1.0.1 released 2022-02-14: Added mul instruction
• 1.1.0 released 2022-03-02: Added exam-related page (ASCII, SI prefixes, etc.)
• 1.2.0 released 2022-05-12: Added single cycle and pipelined datapaths
• 1.2.1 released 2022-05-12: Fixed WBSel mux in single cycle datapath

Exams

See the exam resources page.

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