Stone develops a proper understanding of the design process by treating the various trade-offs that exist in designing choices, and shows how good designs make efficient use of technology.FeaturesTeaches techniques for the design and analysis of high-performance machines - Develops students' intuition for design by treating various tradeoffs that exist in design choices - Discusses many important topics: RISC architectures, interconnection meshes, Cache coherent and multiprocessors, and Cache Memory. - Includes enhanced descriptions of RISC Processors - Expands material on Cache Memory Analysis - Current technology in RISC with a focused look on super scalar - Additional memory models and techniques for doing Cache design - New porposals for coherent memory systems in System C parallel processors - Both design and thought problems and problems with limiting parameters are provided 0201526883B04062001