The background volume provides the design specialist with the opportunity to examine the comprehensive design of the RISC processor TOOBSIE "down to the last bit" at any point, or to adopt the design as a whole for their own experiments or the development of their own CAD tools. This includes not only detailed documentation of the instruction set and the complete executable Verilog models but also an extensive graphical gate-level netlist. The complete disclosure of all details is likely to set this work apart from other books, as well as from other major commercial designs.