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.

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Project #4: Extending a 5-stage Pipelined RISC-V Processor

The goal of this project is to understand how a pipelined processor works. In this project, you need to extend the existing 5-stage pipelined RISC-V simulator to support new instructions and a branch prediction scheme using the branch target buffer (BTB).

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

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

In this project, you will implement an image resizing program 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 20 (Sunday).

Project #2: FP Addition

The goal of this project is to get familiar with the IEEE 754 floating-point standard by implementing the addition of two floating-point numbers using integer arithmetic. Specificially, this project focuses on a variation of the 16-bit floating-point format, called SnuFloat16 (or SFP16 for short).

• Project specification and skeleton code available here
• Due date: 11:59PM, October 16 (Sunday).

Project #1: Simplified Image Compression

In this project, you need to perform a simplified image compression on the given grayscale image in memory. The purpose of this project is to make you familiar with the binary representation of integers and the bit-level 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 18 (Sunday).

RISC-V Resources

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