The lecture notes for CS 433 are derived from the following sources. - Notes developed by Prof. Mark D. Hill, Prof. David A. Wood, and Prof. Gurindar S. Sohi for teaching a computer architecture course at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. - Notes developed by Prof. David Patterson for a computer architecture course at the University of California -- Berkeley. - The text ``Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach'' by John L. Hennessy and David Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., Editions 1 to 6. - Various research papers from the literature. These notes and the above sources are copyrighted by the respective authors. Their use for all purposes other than CS 433 is restricted by the following notice. ******************************************************************* All rights reserved. Except for CS 433, no part of these notes may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the authors. *******************************************************************