The following schedule is tentative and subject to change without notice.

Credit: Most of slides for this lecture are based on materials provided by the textbook publisher.

For project submission and automatic grading, we are running a dedicated server at http://sys.snu.ac.kr. If you want to access the sys server outside of the SNU campus, please send a mail to the TAs at snucsl.ta AT gmail.

Project #4: A 6-stage Pipelined RISC-V Simulator

The goal of this project is to understand how a pipelined processor works. You need to build a 6-stage pipelined RISC-V simulator called snurisc6 in Python that supports the most of RV32I base instruction set.

• Project specification and skeleton code available here
• Due date: 11:59PM, December 18 (Saturday).

Project #3: Image Convolution in the RISC-V Assembly Language

In this project, you will implement an image convolution routine using the 32-bit RISC-V (RV32I) assembly language. An image file in the BMP format will be given as an input. The goal of this project is to give you an opportunity to practice the RISC-V assembly programming. In addition, this project introduces various RISC-V tools that help you compile and run your RISC-V programs.

• Project specification and skeleton code available here
• Due date: 11:59PM, November 14 (Sunday).

Project #2: FP10 Representation

The goal of this project is to get familiar with the IEEE 754 floating-point standard by implementing a 10-bit floating-point representation (fp10 for short).

• Project specification and skeleton code available here
• Due date: 11:59PM, October 17 (Sunday).

Project #1: Run-length Encoding

In this project, you need to perform a variant of run-length encoding to the given array of bytes in memory. The purpose of this project is to make you familiar with the binary representations of strings/integers and the logical operations supported in the C programming language. Another goal is to make your Linux or MacOS development environment ready and to get familiar with our project submission server.

• Project specification and skeleton code available here
• Due date: 11:59PM, September 26 (Sunday).

RISC-V Resources

• RISC-V Instruction Set Manual Volume I: User-Level ISA (Version 20191213)
• RISC-V Tutorial (HotChips, 2019)
• RISC-V International