David Harris is the Harvey S. Mudd Professor of Engineering Design at Harvey Mudd College. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and his M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. Before attending Stanford, he worked at Intel as a logic and circuit designer on the Itanium and Pentium II processors. Since then, he has consulted at Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Broadcom, and other design companies. David holds more than a dozen patents and is the author of three other textbooks on chip design, as well as many Southern California hiking guidebooks. When he is not working, he enjoys hiking, flying, and making things with his three sons.James Stine is the Edward Joullian Professor of Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His area of research is in computer arithmetic, memory architectures, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) design flow. He is the author of numerous articles on optimization of architectures for use with computer arithmetic as well as interfacing to memory architectures. He is the author of three texts: Digital Datapath Computer Arithmetic with Verilog, Adder Architectures for VLSI Implementations and System on Chip Design Flow and Standard-Cell Library.Sarah L. Harris is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Before attending Stanford, she received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University. Sarah has also worked with Hewlett-Packard, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Nvidia, and Microsoft Research in Beijing. Sarah loves teaching, exploring and developing new technologies, traveling, wind surfing, rock climbing, and playing the guitar. Her recent exploits include researching sketching interfaces for digital circuit design, acting as a science correspondent for a National Public Radio affiliate, and learning how to kite surf. She speaks four languages and looks forward to learning more in the near future.Rose Thompson is a processor architect at Skyworks Solutions, Inc. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and two B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington. She has also designed chips at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Her professional interests include SoC design and veri¿cation, custom instruction set architectures, branch prediction, memory systems, and secure computing. Rose also enjoys biking, hiking, rock climbing, and playing the piano.