Course Guides

We prepared these guides on various topics relevant to CS107E students. Hope you find them useful.

Review

• Electricity basics
• Binary and hexadecimal number representations
• Intro to bitmasking
• Using the unix command line

Kit and Tools

• Bill of Materials (BOM) for course parts kit
• Recommendations for hand tools
• Soldering guide for soldering pins onto the MangoPi

Installation

• Setup WSL (only on Windows)
• Install developer tools (riscv toolchain and xfel)
• Setup git and mycode repo
• Install tio for USB-serial device

Mango Pi

• Powering the Mango Pi
• Using xfel as a bootloader
• Reference card with pinout (printed copy in your kit)
• Serial communication over uart
• Meet your GPIO pins
• Program your GPIO pins

Risc-V

• One page of RISC-V

Development tools/process

• The git workflow used for labs and assignments in CS107e
• Using git for version control
• Bare metal programming using gcc
• make and Makefiles
• Using gdb in simulation mode
• Binary utilities (binutils)
• Advice on software testing