Schedule

Below is a preview of our week-by-week plan for the entire quarter. There may be slight adjustments and rearrangements as we go. The schedule for the final project is set and will not change.

In the readings below, K&R refers to Kernighan and Ritchie's classic text The C Programming Language (accessible via Stanford's subscription to Safari Books Online). Nick Parlante's EssentialC is another great C reference. Please do the recommended readings before lecture for best effect!

Week 1
Lecture Mon 1/6	RISC-V architecture ( slides, code ) Here is a link to the Ripes simulator demoed in lecture. Our one-page guide to RISC-V. (Not light reading, but the real deal on the design of RISC-V) Andrew Waterman's PhD Thesis, "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecuture" https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.pdf
Lab/assign	Lab 0: Orientation ( writeup ) Please do the Lab 0 prelab preparation before coming to lab.	Assignment 0: Git oriented ( writeup )
Lecture Fri 1/10	RISC-V assembly and machine code ( slides, code ) Here is a link to the Ripes simulator demoed in lecture. Our one-page guide to RISC-V. Enjoy Danny Cohen's article Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace on the history of little-endian vs. big-endian.
Week 2
Lecture Mon 1/13	From Assembly to C ( slides, code ) Our one-page guide to RISC-V. Brush up on C basics (syntax, data types, operators, control structures) via your favorite C reference; sections 1-2 of Nick Parlante's EssentialC; or chapters 1, 2, and 3 of K&R. Skip content on I/O and standard libraries (we are bare metal!) Read Dennis Ritchie's account of the history of C Try out the Compiler Explorer demoed in lecture Read our guides on make and gcc
Lab/assign	Lab 1: Getting to know your Mango Pi ( writeup ) Please do the Lab 1 prelab preparation before coming to lab.	Assignment 1: Larson Scanner ( writeup )
Lecture Fri 1/17	C Pointers and Arrays ( slides, code ) Review EssentialC chapters 3 and 6 (postpone heap and memory management for later) or K&R 5.1-5.4. C `volatile` can be subtle and tricky. See GeeksForGeeks advice on correct use and John Regehr's blog on what NOT to do with volatile
Week 3
Lecture Mon 1/20	MLK Day (no lecture)
Lab/assign	Lab 2: Below C Level ( writeup ) Prelab to prep before lab.	Assignment 2: Clock
Lecture Fri 1/24	C Functions
Week 4
Lecture Mon 1/27	Communication and the Serial Protocol
Lab/assign	Lab 3: Debugging and Testing	Assignment 3: String Formatting
Lecture Fri 1/31	Modules, Libraries, and Linking
Week 5
Lecture Mon 2/3	Memory Management
Lab/assign	Lab 4: Linked and Loaded	Assignment 4: Stack and Heap
Lecture Fri 2/7	C Mastery
Week 6
Lecture Mon 2/10	Keyboards and the PS/2 Protocol
Lab/assign	Lab 5: Keyboard Surfin'	Assignment 5: Keyboard and Simple Shell
Lecture Fri 2/14	Graphics and the framebuffer
Week 7
Lecture Mon 2/17	Presidents Day (no lecture)
Lab/assign	Lab 6: Drawing into the Framebuffer	Assignment 6: Graphics Library and Console
Lecture Fri 2/21	Interrupts
Week 8
Lecture Mon 2/24	Interrupts, cont'd
Lab/assign	Lab 7: Mango Pi, Interrupted	Assignment 7: System Monitor with Interrupts
Lecture Fri 2/28	Project
Week 9
Lecture Mon 3/3	Sensor Input
Lab/assign	Lab 8: Project Team Meeting 1	Final Project
Lecture Fri 3/7	Output
Week 10
Lecture Mon 3/10	Number Representation and Arithmetic
Lab/assign	Lab 9: Project Team Meeting 2
Lecture Fri 3/14	Wrap or There and Back Again
Week 11
	Final Project Demo session Fri 3/21 at 9:00 am Code submission due Fri 3/21 at 11:59 pm