Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

CS 61C at UC Berkeley with Justin Yokota - Summer 2025

Lecture: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday 2:00PM - 3:30PM PT, Valley Life Sciences 2050
Recordings will be published to bCourses Media Gallery

Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Lab	HW	Project
1	Mon 6/23	Lecture 1: Syllabus, Number Representation Readings: Course Policies, P&H 2-4, Binary Slides Slides		Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 6/29
	Tue 6/24	Lecture 2: C Basics - Pointers & Arrays Readings: K&R 1-5, C Reference Slides, Brian Harvey's Intro to C Slides			Homework 1: Number Representation, C Basics Due 7/02
	Wed 6/25	Lecture 3: C - Strings & Memory Readings: K&R 5-6, 7.8.5, 8.7 Slides
	Thu 6/26	Lecture 4: C - Generics Readings: K&R 7.8.5, 8.7 Slides Drive	Discussion 1: C, Number Rep Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources			Project 1: snek Due 7/09
	Fri 6/27
2	Mon 6/30	Lecture 5: Floating Point Readings: IEEE 754 Simulator Slides	Discussion 2: C Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions Resources	Lab 1: C Due 7/01
	Tue 7/1	Lecture 6: RISC-V I Readings: P&H 2.1-2.3 Slides		Lab 1: C Due 7/01
	Wed 7/2	Lecture 7: RISC-V II Readings: P&H 2.6-2.7, 2.9-2.10, 3.2 Slides	Discussion 3: Floating Point / RISC-V Precheck Worksheet Solutions	Lab 2: C Debugging Due 7/03
	Thu 7/3	Lecture 8: RISC-V III Readings: P&H 2.8 Slides		Lab 2: C Debugging Due 7/03	Homework 2: C Memory, Floating Point, and RISC-V Due 7/09
	Fri 7/4
3	Mon 7/7	Lecture 9: RISC-V IV: Instruction Format Readings: P&H 2.5, 2.10 Slides	Discussion 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions	Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 7/10
	Tue 7/8	Lecture 10: CALL Readings: P&H 2.12 Slides
	Wed 7/9	Lecture 11: Caches I Readings: P&H 5.1-5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.13, Cache Flowchart Slides	Discussion 5: RISC-V ISA, AMAT, CALL Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions
	Thu 7/10	Lecture 12: Caches II Readings: P&H 5.1-5.5, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, Cache Flowchart Slides			Homework 3: RISC-V, Caches Due 7/16	Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 7/14 B: Due 7/21
	Fri 7/11
4	Mon 7/14	Lecture 13: SDS I: Boolean Logic, FSMs Readings: P&H A.2-A.3, A.10, SDS Handout Slides Drive	Discussion 6: Caches Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions
	Tue 7/15	Lecture 14: SDS II Readings: Blocks Handout Slides		Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 7/15
	Wed 7/16	Lecture 15: SDS III Readings: P&H A.3-A.6, 4.8, 4.10, State Handout Slides	Discussion 7: Exam Review
	Thu 7/17	Midterm 7-9PM PT			Homework 4: Boolean Algebra, SDS, FSM, Datapaths Due 7/23
	Fri 7/18			Lab 5: Logisim Due 7/22
5	Mon 7/21	Lecture 16: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath I Readings: P&H 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 Slides	Discussion 8: SDS, Boolean Algebra Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions
	Tue 7/22	Lecture 17: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath II: Control Logic Readings: P&H 4.4, 4.5 Slides				Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 7/29 B: Due 8/05
	Wed 7/23	Lecture 18: RISC-V 5 Stage Pipelining I Readings: P&H 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 Slides	Discussion 9: SDS, RISC-V Datapath Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions	Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 7/24
	Thu 7/24	Lecture 19: RISC-V 5 Stage Pipelining II: Hazards Slides		Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 7/24	Homework 5: RISC-V Datapath, Performance Due 7/30
	Fri 7/25
6	Mon 7/28	Lecture 20: Parallelism I: Performance Programming, Amdahl's Law Slides Drive	Discussion 10: RISC-V Hazards Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions	Lab 7: Parallelism Due 7/31
	Tue 7/29	Lecture 21: Parallelism II: Data-Level and Intro to 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 Slides Drive
	Wed 7/30	Lecture 22: Parallelism III: TLP and Concurrency Readings: P&H 1.7, 1.8, 2.11, 4.10, 4.11, 5.10, 6.1-6.3, 6.5, 6.7 Slides Drive	Discussion 11: DLP, TLP Precheck Precheck Sols Worksheet Solutions
	Thu 7/31	Lecture 23: MIMD, Virtual Memory Readings: P&H 5.7 Slides Drive			Homework 6: Parallelism, Virtual Memory Due 8/06
	Fri 8/1
7	Mon 8/4	Lecture 24: Operating Systems	Discussion 12: Virtual Memory
	Tue 8/5	Lecture 25: ECC + RAID
	Wed 8/6	Lecture 26: TBA	Discussion 13: Exam Review
	Thu 8/7	Lecture 27: TBA		Lab 8: CS61kaChow Due 8/07
	Fri 8/8
8	Mon 8/11	No Lecture
	Tue 8/12	Final: 11:30AM-2:30PM PT
	Wed 8/13	No Lecture
	Thu 8/14	No Lecture
	Fri 8/15