Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Professor Andrew Brown, the head of the
Electronic Systems Design Group, School of Electronics and
Computer Science, at the University of Southampton, UK. Giving
me the opportunity to first study and then work in his group has led
directly to me being able to write this book. For that I am deeply
grateful. In addition, the continuing support and encouragement of
colleagues and students in the ESD research group has been a con-
stant source of support and ideas.
I also wish to single out Tim Pitts (Elsevier Publishing) who was
instrumental in me starting this project, and also for his encour-
agement to see it through to a conclusion. I also would like to
thank those who have contributed to the production of the book ...