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

• Install WSL (Windows users only)
• Setup of git and mycode repo
• Install developer tools (riscv toolchain and xfel)
• Install CP2102 driver and Minicom 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
• Binary utilities (binutils)
• Advice on software testing

Extras

These resources are not fully fleshed out, but could be helpful starting points to use for projects

• Info on the vector unit of Mango Pi
• Sensors lecture code examples (includes bit bang version of i2c and spi)
• Code to use spi peripheral of Mango Pi
• Implementation of math library of Mango Pi
• Sample code for Neopixel/WS8212