Paolo Ienne is a Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, where he heads the Processor Architecture Laboratory (LAP). He received the Dottore in Ingegneria Elettronica degree from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from the EPFL in 1996. From 1990 to 1991, he was an undergraduate researcher with Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K. From 1992 to 1996, he was a Research Assistant at the Microcomputing Laboratory (LAMI) and at the MANTRA Center for Neuro-Mimetic Systems of the EPFL. In December 1996, he joined the Semiconductors Group of Siemens AG, Munich, Germany (which later became Infineon Technologies AG). After working on datapath generation tools, he became Head of the embedded memory unit in the Design Libraries division. In 2000, he joined EPFL. His research interests include various aspects of computer and processor architecture, reconfigurable computing, on-chip networks and multiprocessor systems-on-chip, and computer arithmetic. Dr. Ienne was a recipient of the DAC 2003 Best Paper Award. He is or has been a member of the program committees of several international workshops and conferences, including Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), the International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), the IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), and the Workshop on Application-Specific Processors (WASP). He is a cofounder of Mimosys, a company providing tools for the automatic customization of embedded processors.

Rainer Leupers is a Professor for Software for Systems on Silicon at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science with honors from the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1992 and 1997. From 1997 to 2001 he was the chief engineer at the Embedded Systems group at the University of Dortmund. During 1999–2001 he was also a project manager at ICD, where he headed industrial compiler and processor simulator tool projects. Dr. Leupers joined RWTH in 2002. His research and teaching activities comprise software development tools, processor architectures, and electronic design automation for embedded systems, with emphasis on compilers for application specific processors. He authored several books and numerous technical papers on design tools for embedded processors, and he served in the program committees of leading EDA and compiler conferences, including the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), and the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). Dr. Leupers received several scientific awards, including Best Paper Awards at DATE 2000 and DAC 2002. He has been a cofounder of LISATek, an EDA tool provider for embedded processor design, acquired by CoWare Inc. in 2003.