Four‎-time winner of the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook of the year award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association‎,‎ Computer Organization and Architecture‎:‎ Designing for Performance provides a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of computer organization and architecture‎,‎ covering not just processor design‎,‎ but memory‎,‎ I/O‎,‎ and parallel systems‎.‎ Coverage is supported by a wealth of concrete examples emphasizing modern RISC‎,‎ CISC‎,‎ and superscalar systems‎.‎ Undergraduates and professionals in computer science‎,‎ computer engineering‎,‎ and electrical engineering courses will learn the fundamentals of processor and computer design from this award‎-winning text‎.‎ The eighth revision has been updated to reflect major advances in computer technology‎,‎ including multicore processors and embedded processors‎.‎ Interactive simulations have been expanded and keyed into relevant sections of text‎.‎