Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

CS61C at UC Berkeley with Justin Yokota - Summer 2026

Lecture: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday 2:00PM - 3:30PM PT, Dwinelle 155
Recordings will be published to bCourses Media Gallery

Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Lab	HW	Project
1	Mon 6/22	Lecture 1: Syllabus/Number Rep/Misconduct		Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 6/26
	Tue 6/23	Lecture 2: C Basics - Pointers & Arrays Readings: L02 Notes			Homework 1: Number Representation + C Due 7/01
	Wed 6/24	Lecture 3: C - String & Memory Readings: L03 Notes
	Thu 6/25	Lecture 4: C - Generics Readings: L04 Notes	Discussion 1: Number Rep	Lab 1: C Due 6/30		Project 1: snek Due 7/03
	Fri 6/26
2	Mon 6/29	Lecture 5: Floating Point Readings: L05 Notes	Discussion 2: C	Lab 2: C Debugging Due 7/02
	Tue 6/30	Lecture 6: Intro to RISC-V Readings: L06 Notes
	Wed 7/1	Lecture 7: RISC-V Procedures Readings: L07 Notes, IEC Prefixes Notes	Discussion 3: C + FP
	Thu 7/2	Lecture 8: RISC-V Instruction Format Readings: L08 Notes, IEEE 754 Simulator		Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus Due 7/07	Homework 2: FP + RISC-V Due 7/08
	Fri 7/3
3	Mon 7/6	No Lecture: Holiday	Discussion 4: RISC-V			Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 7/10 B: Due 7/21
	Tue 7/7	Lecture 9: CALL Readings: L09 Notes
	Wed 7/8	Lecture 10: Combinational Logic, FSM Readings: L10 Notes	Discussion 5: Formats + CALL	Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 7/14
	Thu 7/9	Lecture 11: SDS Readings: L11 Notes			Homework 3: RISC-V + Logic Due 7/15
	Fri 7/10
4	Mon 7/13	Lecture 12: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath Readings: L12 Notes	Discussion 6: CL + FSM
	Tue 7/14	Lecture 13: RISC-V Single Cycle Datapath Controls Readings: L13 Notes
	Wed 7/15	Lecture 14: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipelining Readings: L14 Notes	Discussion 7: Exam Review	Lab 5: Logisim Due 7/21
	Thu 7/16	Lecture 15: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipelining - Hazards Readings: L15 Notes			Homework 4: Datapath Due 7/22
	Fri 7/17
5	Mon 7/20	Lecture 16: Parallelism I - Data-Level Parallelism Readings: L16 Notes	Discussion 8: Datapath	Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 7/23
	Tue 7/21	Lecture 17: Parallelism II - Thread-Level Parallelism Readings: L17 Notes
	Wed 7/22	Review	Discussion 9: Datapath			Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 7/28 B: Due 8/04
	Thu 7/23	No lecture: Midterm		Lab 7: Parallelism Due 7/30	Homework 5: Performance Due 7/29
	Fri 7/24
6	Mon 7/27	Lecture 18: Parallelism III - Process-Level Parallelism Readings: L18 Notes	Discussion 10: Pipelining
	Tue 7/28	Lecture 19: Cache I Readings: L19 Notes
	Wed 7/29	Lecture 20: Cache II Readings: L20 Notes	Discussion 11: DLP/TLP
	Thu 7/30	Lecture 21: Cache III - AMAT + Practice Readings: Datapath Notes		OPTIONAL: Lab 8 / Project 4: 61kaChow Due 8/04	Homework 6: Caches Due 8/05
	Fri 7/31
7	Mon 8/3	Lecture 22: VM I Readings: Datapath Notes	Discussion 12: Caches
	Tue 8/4	Lecture 23: VM II Readings: Control Notes
	Wed 8/5	Lecture 24: Wrap-Up Readings: Pipeline I Notes	Discussion 13: Caches/VM
	Thu 8/6				Homework 7: VM Due 8/10
	Fri 8/7
8	Mon 8/10	No Lecture
	Tue 8/11	No Lecture
	Wed 8/12	Final
	Thu 8/13	No Lecture
	Fri 8/14	No Lecture