Acknowledgments

There have been many people that have contributed to this project and helped improve the book in numerous ways. We would like to acknowledge the current students in the Reconfigurable Computing Systems lab (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) for reading chapters and providing feedback – sometimes with very short notice. These include William V. Kritikos, Scott Buscemi, Bin Huang, Shanyuan Gao, Robin Jacob Pottathuparambil, Siddhartha Datta, Ashwin A. Mendon, Shweta Jain, Yamuna Rajasekhar, and Rahul R. Sharma. Other colleagues and previous students have also contributed; the authors would also like to thank Brian Greskamp (D.E. Shaw), Srinivas Beeravolu (Xilinx, Inc.), Parag Beeraka (AMD Inc.), and David Andrews (University of Arkansas) for their help. Many of the questions and examples have been adapted from our collaborations with these individuals. Several external reviewers provided valuable feedback. We would like to thank Roy Kravitz (Serveron, A Division of BPL Global), Duncan Buell (University of South Carolina), Cameron Patterson (Virginia Tech), and Jim Turley (Embedded Technology Journal). We would also like to thank the team at Morgan-Kaufmann; in particular, Nate McFadden and Andre Cuello, were instrumental in helping us complete the manuscript on time. Also, we would like to thank Xilinx — they encouraged us to start this project and then gave us the freedom to complete it as we saw fit. Finally, the authors would like to thank ourreak families — Jennie, Joseph, and Hilary — for giving us the time to complete this project. You guys are the best!