This course focuses on core concepts about contemporary computer design and associated hardware implementation, which are likely to exist in a contemporary or new machine. The covered computer architecture ideas and concepts all have been examined and utilized successfully enough to permit their discussion in quantitative terms. They include quantitative fundamentals, instruction-level parallelism and its exploitation, memory hierarchy design, thread-level parallelism, data-level parallelism, and domain-specific architectures. The prerequisites for this course include general knowledge about logic design and computer operations (covered in Appendices A, B, and C). You are strongly encouraged to go through those three appendices yourself as soon as possible.