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xviii PREFACE

Professor Cindy Norris of Appalachian State University, Professor Bin Mu of the Uni-
versity of New Brunswick, and Professor Kenrick Mock of the University of Alaska kindly
supplied homework problems.
Aswin Sreedhar of the University of Massachusetts developed the interactive simula-
tion assignments and also wrote the test bank.
Professor Miguel Angel Vega Rodriguez, Professor Dr. Juan Manuel Sánchez Pérez, and
Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio Gómez Pulido, all of University of Extremadura, Spain prepared the
SMPCache problems in the instructors manual and authored the SMPCache User’s Guide.
Todd Bezenek of the University of Wisconsin and James Stine of Lehigh University
prepared the SimpleScalar problems in the instructor’s manual, and Todd also authored the
SimpleScalar User’s Guide.
Thanks also to Adrian Pullin at Liverpool Hope University College, who developed
the PowerPoint slides for the book.
Finally, I would like to thank the many people responsible for the publication of the
book, all of whom did their usual excellent job.This includes my editor Tracy Dunkelberger,
her assistant Melinda Haggerty, and production manager Rose Kernan.Also, Jake Warde of
Warde Publishers managed the reviews; and Patricia M. Daly did the copy editing.