Below are some of resources that we have deemed rather helpful to deepening understanding of various topics in the class. If there exists a resource that you believe is very useful, but we have not yet included on this website yet, please send an email to cs61c(at)berkeley.edu. We’d love to include it below!

Reference Cards and Cheat Sheets

• RISC-V Green Card: (pdf) (larger print pdf)
• GDB reference card: (pdf)
• Git Resources: (cheat sheet) (flow guide)
• Posters from CS Illustrated (Caches, FP, Number Rep, Pointers/Arrays): (html)
• Venus reference: (link)

Exams

Click this link to view exam resources.

Review Notes / Resources By Topic

Number Representation

• Sean’s number representation notes
• Anusha’s number representation notes
• Allan’s floating number notes

C

• Brian Harvey’s Notes on C: (pdf) ** highly recommended
• Fall 2017 Course Staff C & Memory Notes
• Prof. Hilfinger’s Notes on Memory Management (pdf)
• Sruthi’s C summary notes

RISC-V

• Sruthi’s guide to Verilog on the green sheet
• Nick’s notes on RISC-V calling convention

SDS, Boolean Algebra, and FSMs

• Prof. Wawryznek’s notes on state, blocks, SDS, and boolean logic ** highly recommended
• Dinesh’s Piazza post on Karnaugh maps
• Allan’s Boolean Logic and State Circuit Notes

Single-Cycle Datapath and Control

• Allan’s note on control signals

TA Resources

Summer 2020

• Max: Discussion notes

Spring 2020

• Stephan: Discussion notes

Fall 2019

• Anusha: Discussion notes/slides
• Averal: Discussion notes
• David: Discussion slides
• Greg: Discussion notes
• Jenny: Discussion slides
• Jie: Discussion slides
• Shloak: Discussion slides
• Sruthi: Discussion slides
• Stephan: Discussion notes