Teaching fundamental design concepts and the challenges of emerging technology‎,‎ this textbook prepares students for a career designing the computer systems of the future‎.‎ In‎-depth coverage of complexity‎,‎ power‎,‎ reliability and performance‎,‎ coupled with treatment of parallelism at all levels‎,‎ including ILP and TLP‎,‎ provides the state‎-of‎-the‎-art training that students need‎.‎ The whole gamut of parallel architecture design options is explained‎,‎ from core microarchitecture to chip multiprocessors to large‎-scale multiprocessor systems‎.‎ All the chapters are self‎-contained‎,‎ yet concise enough that the material can be taught in a single semester‎,‎ making it perfect for use in senior undergraduate and graduate computer architecture courses‎.‎ The book is also teeming with practical examples to aid the learning process‎,‎ showing concrete applications of definitions‎.‎ With simple models and codes used throughout‎,‎ all material is made open to a broad range of computer engineering/science students with only a basic knowledge of hardware and software‎.‎