Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

CS61C at UC Berkeley with Lisa Yan - Spring 2026

Lecture: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 11:00AM - 12:00PM PT, Evans 10
Recordings will be published to bCourses Media Gallery

Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Lab	HW	Project
1	Wed 1/21	Lecture 1: Intro, Great Ideas Slides Drive Video		Lab 0: Intro, Setup Due 1/27
	Thu 1/22				Homework 1: Number Representation Due 1/29
	Fri 1/23	Lecture 2: Number Representation Readings: L02 Notes Slides Drive
2	Mon 1/26	Lecture 3: C Intro - Basics	Discussion 1: Number Rep			Project 1: snek Due 2/12
	Tue 1/27
	Wed 1/28	Lecture 4: C Intro - Pointers, Arrays, Strings		Lab 1: C
	Thu 1/29
	Fri 1/30	Lecture 5: C Memory Management			Homework 2: C Due 2/05
3	Mon 2/2	Lecture 6: C Generics	Discussion 2: C & Memory Management
	Tue 2/3
	Wed 2/4	Lecture 7: C Abstract Data Types		Lab 2: C Debugging
	Thu 2/5
	Fri 2/6	Lecture 8: Floating Point			Homework 3: C, RISC-V, Floating Point Warm Up Due 2/17
4	Mon 2/9	Lecture 9: RISC-V Basics	Discussion 3: Floating Point
	Tue 2/10
	Wed 2/11	Lecture 10: RISC-V Data Transfer		Lab 3: RISC-V, Venus
	Thu 2/12
	Fri 2/13	Lecture 11: RISC-V Decision Making				Project 2: CS61Classify A: Due 2/26 B: Due 3/05
5	Mon 2/16	No Lecture: Holiday
	Tue 2/17		Discussion 4: RISC-V
	Wed 2/18	Lecture 12: RISC-V Procedures & Quest (2/18-2/20)		Lab 4: RISC-V Calling Convention Due 2/19	Homework 4: RISC-V Due 3/03
	Thu 2/19	Quest (2/18-2/20)
	Fri 2/20	Lecture 13: RISC-V Instruction Formats I & Quest (2/18-2/20)
6	Mon 2/23	Lecture 14: RISC-V Instruction Formats II	Discussion 5: RISC-V Calling Convention
	Tue 2/24
	Wed 2/25	Lecture 15: Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Loader
	Thu 2/26
	Fri 2/27	Lecture 16: Intro to SDS
7	Mon 3/2	Lecture 17: Combinational Logic	Discussion 6: Instruction Translation, CALL
	Tue 3/3
	Wed 3/4	Lecture 18: State			Homework 5: CALL, SDS Due 3/10
	Thu 3/5
	Fri 3/6	Lecture 19: Blocks and ALU				Project 3: CS61CPU A: Due 3/19 B: Due 4/09
8	Mon 3/9	Lecture 20: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath I	Discussion 7: Boolean Algebra, SDS, FSM
	Tue 3/10
	Wed 3/11	Lecture 21: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath II		Lab 5: Logisim Due 3/12	Homework 6: RISC-V Single-Cycle Datapath Due 3/19
	Thu 3/12
	Fri 3/13	Lecture 22: RISC-V Single-Cycle Control
9	Mon 3/16	Lecture 23: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline I	Discussion 8: Datapath
	Tue 3/17	Midterm: 8-10PM PT
	Wed 3/18	Lecture 24: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline II
	Thu 3/19
	Fri 3/20	Lecture 25: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline III			Homework 7: RISC-V 5-Stage Pipeline Due 4/02
10	Mon 3/23	No Lecture: Holiday
	Tue 3/24	No Lecture: Holiday
	Wed 3/25	No Lecture: Holiday
	Thu 3/26	No Lecture: Holiday
	Fri 3/27	No Lecture: Holiday
11	Mon 3/30	Lecture 26: Caches I	Discussion 9: Pipelining, Hazards
	Tue 3/31
	Wed 4/1	Lecture 27: Caches II		Lab 6: CPU, Pipelining Due 4/02
	Thu 4/2
	Fri 4/3	Lecture 28: Caches III			Homework 8: Hardware Performance, Caching Due 4/14
12	Mon 4/6	Lecture 29: Caches IV	Discussion 10: Caches
	Tue 4/7
	Wed 4/8	Lecture 30: Parallelism I - Intro
	Thu 4/9
	Fri 4/10	Lecture 31: Parallelism II - SIMD
13	Mon 4/13	Lecture 32: Parallelism III - TLP	Discussion 11: Parallelism
	Tue 4/14
	Wed 4/15	Lecture 33: Parallelism IV - Concurrency		Lab 7: Parallelism Due 4/16	Homework 9: Parallelism Due 4/23
	Thu 4/16
	Fri 4/17	Lecture 34: Parallelism V - MIMD Architectures
14	Mon 4/20	Lecture 35: Virtual Memory I	Discussion 12: More Parallelism
	Tue 4/21
	Wed 4/22	Lecture 36: Virtual Memory II		TBD: Lab 8 / Project 4: 61kaChow Due 4/23
	Thu 4/23
	Fri 4/24	Lecture 37: Lecture 37: OS Basics			Homework 10: Virtual Memory Due 4/30
15	Mon 4/27	[Lec Only]: Guest Lecture	Discussion 13: Virtual Memory
	Tue 4/28
	Wed 4/29	Lecture 39: Guest Lecture
	Thu 4/30
	Fri 5/1	Lecture 40: Summary, What's Next?
16	Mon 5/4	RRR Week
	Tue 5/5	RRR Week
	Wed 5/6	RRR Week
	Thu 5/7	RRR Week
	Fri 5/8	RRR Week
17	Mon 5/11
	Tue 5/12	Final: 7-10PM PT