In addition, the new edition has been expanded and updated coverage of design topics beyond processor performance, including power, reliability, availability, and reliability. CD System Requirements PDF Viewer CD material includes PDF documents that you can read with a PDF viewer such as Adobe, Acrobat or Adobe Reader. The contents have been verified under Windows XP with the following browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0, Firefox 1.5, on Mac OS X (Panther) with the following browsers: Internet Explorer 5.2, Firefox 1.0.6, Safari 1.3, and under Mandriva Linux 2006 with the following browsers : Firefox 1.0.6, Konqueror 3.4.2, Mozilla 1.7.11. You can find content that does not display properly if your display is not set to at least a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. Operating Systems This CD can be used under any operating system that includes an HTML browser and PDF viewer. Increased coverage on achieving parallelism with multiprocessors. Case studies latest technology from industry including the Sun Niagara Multiprocessor, AMD Opteron, and Pentium 4. Three review attachment, are included in the printed volumes, review the basic principles and main text medium dependent. Eight reference appendix, collected on CD, covering various topics including specific architectures, embedded systems, application specific processors - some guest authored by subject experts.