COMP 311 (Fall 2026)

Monday / Wednesday 3:35-4:50 in Murphey 0116

A working draft of the syllabus can be found here!

Office Hours

TA OH: in SN143

M/W: 10am-3pm; T/Th: 10-11am, 3-5pm; Fridays: 10-12pm

Course Links

Assignments

Gradescope

1:1 Meeting Sign-Ups

miniRISC-V Simulator

miniRISC-V Programming Reading

RISC-V Reference Guide

RISC-V Datapath Guide

In-Class Practice Solutions

Textbooks:

• Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface by David Patterson and John Hennessey. PDF
• The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas by David Patterson and Andrew Waterman. PDF

Course Schedule

Full-Semester Schedule Here. Subject to change!

Week 1

Monday 8/17:

• FDOC!! :)
• Lecture 0: Welcome! Introduction
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Wednesday 8/19:

• Lecture 1: RISC-V Registers, Operands, Arithmetic Instructions
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Week 2

Monday 8/24:

• Lecture 2: The Bits Inside a Register
• Slides
• In-class Practice
• WA1 Released. Due 8/31

Wednesday 8/26:

• Lecture 3: R vs. I-Type Instructions, Loads, Stores
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Week 3

Monday 8/31:

• Lecture 2: Loads, Stores, Memory Access
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Wednesday 9/2:

• Quiz 1
• Lecture 5: Branches
• Slides

Week 4

Wednesday 9/9:

• Lecture 6: Jumps, Procedures + Using the Stack
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Week 5

Monday 9/14:

• Lecture 7: Stack Review, Calling Convention
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Wednesday 9/16:

• Quiz 2
• Lecture 8: Intro to Digital Logic!!!
• Slides
• Lab 1 Released. Due 10/1 at 11:59pm

Week 6

Wednesday 9/23:

• Lecture 9: Transistors, CMOS Gates
• Slides
• In-class Practice
• WA2 Released. Due 10/5

Week 7

Wednesday 9/28:

• Lecture 10: CMOS Gates, Representing Logic
• Slides
• In-class Practice

Wednesday 9/30:

• Lecture 11: In-Class Digital Activity, Basic Circuit Design
• Slides
• In-class Digital Exercise
• Starter Code