Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

CS 61C at UC Berkeley with Charles Hong, Jero Wang, Rosalie Fang - Summer 2023

Lecture: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday 3:30PM - 5:00PM PT, Pimentel 1
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Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Lab	HW	Project
1	Mon 6/19	No lecture: Holiday
	Tue 6/20	Lecture 1: Intro, Number Rep Readings: Course Policies, P&H:2.4, Binary slides Slides Drive		Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 6/26	Homework 1: Number Rep, C Due 6/28
	Wed 6/21	Lecture 2: C Basics Readings: K&R 1-5, C Reference Slides, Brian Harvey's Intro to C Slides Drive	Discussion 1: Number Rep Worksheet Solutions			Project 1: snek Due 6/30
	Thu 6/22	Lecture 3: C Pointers, Arrays, Memory Management Readings: K&R 5-6 Slides Drive
2	Mon 6/26	Lecture 4: C Memory (Mis)Management Readings: K&R 7.8.5, 8.7 Slides Drive	Discussion 2: C Worksheet Solutions	Lab 1: C Due 6/29
	Tue 6/27	Lecture 5: Floating Point Readings: P&H 3.5, 3.9, IEEE 754 Simulator Slides Drive		Lab 1: C Due 6/29
	Wed 6/28	Lecture 6: RISC-V Intro Readings: P&H 2.1-2.3, P&H 2.9, 2.10 Slides Drive	Discussion 3: C, Floating Point Worksheet Solutions	Lab 2: C Debugging Due 6/29
	Thu 6/29	Lecture 7: RISC-V Procedures Readings: P&H 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, P&H 2.8 Slides Drive		Lab 2: C Debugging Due 6/29	Homework 2: Floating Point Due 7/05
3	Mon 7/3	No lecture: Holiday				Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 7/07 B: Due 7/18
	Tue 7/4	No lecture: Holiday
	Wed 7/5	Lecture 8: RISC-V Instruction Format Readings: P&H 2.5, 2.10, P&H 2.5, 2.10 Slides Drive	Discussion 4: RISC-V Worksheet Solutions	Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 7/11
	Thu 7/6	Lecture 9: Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader Readings: P&H 2.12 Slides Drive		Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 7/11	Homework 3: RISC-V, Logic Due 7/12
4	Mon 7/10	Lecture 10: Combinational Logic, FSM Readings: P&H A.3-A.6, State Handout, Blocks Handout Slides Drive	Discussion 5: RISC-V, CALL Worksheet Solutions	Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 7/11
	Tue 7/11	Lecture 11: Synchronous Digital Systems Readings: P&H A.2-A.3, Logic Handout, SDS Handout Slides Drive		Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 7/11
	Wed 7/12	Lecture 12: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath Readings: P&H 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 Slides Drive	Discussion 6: FSM, SDS Worksheet Solutions
	Thu 7/13				Homework 4: Datapath Due 7/19
	Fri 7/14	Midterm 5-7 PM
5	Mon 7/17	Lecture 13: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath Controls, Intro to Pipelining Readings: P&H 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 Slides Drive	Discussion 7: Datapath Worksheet Solutions	Lab 5: Logisim Due 7/20
	Tue 7/18	Lecture 14: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipelining Readings: P&H 4.7, 4.8, 4.10 Slides Drive		Lab 5: Logisim Due 7/20
	Wed 7/19	Lecture 15: Parallelism I - Data-Level Parallelism Readings: P&H 1.7, 1.8, 2.11, 4.10, 4.11, 5.10, 6.1-6.3, 6.5, 6.7, OpenMP Summary Card Slides Drive	Discussion 8: Pipelining Worksheet Solutions	Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 7/20		Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 7/25 B: Due 8/01
	Thu 7/20	Lecture 16: Parallelism II - Thread-Level Parallelism Readings: P&H 1.7, 1.8, 2.11, 4.10, 4.11, 5.10, 6.1-6.3, 6.5, 6.7, OpenMP Summary Card Slides Drive		Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 7/20	Homework 5: Performance Due 7/26
6	Mon 7/24	Lecture 17: Parallelism III - Process-Level Parallelism Readings: P&H 1.7, 1.8, 2.11, 4.10, 4.11, 5.10, 6.1-6.3, 6.5, 6.7, OpenMP Summary Card Slides Drive	Discussion 9: Data and Thread Level Parallelism Worksheet Solutions	Lab 7: Parallelism I - SIMD Due 7/27
	Tue 7/25	Lecture 18: Caches I Readings: P&H 5.1-5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.13, Cache Flowchart Slides Drive		Lab 7: Parallelism I - SIMD Due 7/27
	Wed 7/26	Lecture 19: Caches II Readings: P&H 5.1-5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.13, Cache Flowchart Slides Drive	Discussion 10: Process Level Parallelism, Caches Worksheet Solutions	Lab 8: Parallelism II: OpenMP Due 7/27
	Thu 7/27	Lecture 20: Caches III Readings: P&H 5.1-5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.13, Cache Flowchart Slides Drive		Lab 8: Parallelism II: OpenMP Due 7/27	Homework 6: Caches. Virtual Memory Due 8/02
7	Mon 7/31	Lecture 21: Virtual Memory I Readings: P&H 5.7-5.8 Slides Drive	Discussion 11: Caches Worksheet Solutions	Lab 9: Parallelism III - OpenMPI Due 8/03
	Tue 8/1	Lecture 22: Virtual Memory II Readings: P&H 5.7-5.8 Slides Drive		Lab 9: Parallelism III - OpenMPI Due 8/03
	Wed 8/2	Lecture 23: Warehouse-Scale Computing (Guest Lecture) Slides	Discussion 12: Virtual Memory Worksheet Solutions			Project 4: CS61kaChow Due 8/08
	Thu 8/3	Lecture 24: Dependability, Parity, ECC, RAID Readings: P&H 5.2, 5.5, 5.11 Slides Drive			Homework 7: ECC, Dependability Due 8/09
8	Mon 8/7	Lecture 25: Summary, What's Next? Slides Drive
	Tue 8/8
	Wed 8/9
	Thu 8/10	Final 3-6 PM