Resources

Textbook: Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (RISC-V Edition). Available online via Brown libraries.

Supplemental textbook: Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (5th Edition). Available online via Brown libraries.

Course software

• Development Environment Setup Guide

RISC-V resources

• RISC-V spec v.2.2
• riscv-gnu-toolchain (see also examples in setup guide)

Figure 2.1 from P&H:

Ripes resources

• Ripes documentation
• VSRTL documentation

gem5 resources

• 1952Y gem5 Resource
• Learning gem5
• gem5 Gear-up slides
• gem5 Gear-up recording

Note: since the gearup has been recorded, the command to build gem5 from the course devenv has changed to build-gem5 and the command to run gem5 has changed to /gem5_build/gem5.debug. The riscv-gnu-toolchain is already installed in the devenv (more info can be found in the setup doc).

Final Project resources

• Final Project Gear-up slides
• Final Project Gear-up recording
• gem5 FS mode resources
• On Oscar, see /oscar/data/csci1952/ for some example files