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Acknowledgments
I thank the management of my present employer, Philips, for giving me the
support to go ahead with the book. Any work of mine has always been
incomplete without the blessings of my dear mother. And last but not least I
would like to thank my wife, Bhargavi, for spending some cold days alone
when I was busy penning down the pages for this book.
Raghavan
I would like to thank all the people who made this work possible. First my
mother, who used to tell me to work for the book whenever she saw me
roaming here and there, like any mother telling her kid to study. I also express
thanks to my father who kept on asking me about the status ...