About the Editor

Kim R. Fowler has spent over 30 years in the design, development, and project management of medical, military, and satellite equipment. His interest is the rigorous development of diverse, mission-critical, embedded systems. He co-founded Stimsoft, a medical products company, in 1998 and sold it in 2003. He also has worked for JHU/APL designing embedded systems, for a company now part of Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing that built digital signal processing boards, and consulted for both commercial companies and government agencies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and lectures internationally on systems engineering and developing real-time embedded products. He has been president of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement society and an adjunct professor for the Johns Hopkins University Engineering Professional Program. He has published widely and has written three textbooks—this book is his fourth. He has 18 patents—granted, pending, or disclosed. He is currently a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Kansas State University to finally get his PhD.