Acknowledgments

I have been fortunate to benefit from the support of numerous people during the writing, review, and production phases of this book. I would like to express my thanks here.

Even after several rounds of self-editing, it is possible that typos or subtle mistakes have eluded the author. Sometimes, an explanation that is clear to the author may not be so to the reader. And, occasionally, the author may have missed a point or a recent development. A detailed review of the book by others thus becomes necessary. The following individuals meticulously reviewed various chapters, discovered my mistakes, and made valuable suggestions:

Ali Afsahi (Broadcom)

Pietro Andreani (Lund University)

Ashkan Borna (UC Berkeley)

Jonathan Borremans (IMEC)

Debopriyo Chowdhury (UC Berkeley)

Matteo Conta (Consultant)

Ali Homayoun (UCLA)

Velntina del Lattorre (Consultant)

Jane Gu (University of Florida)

Peng Han (Beken)

Pavan Hanumolu (Oregon State University)

Daquan Huang (Texas Instruments)

Sy-Chyuan Hwu (UCLA)

Amin Jahanian (UCI)

Jithin Janardhan (UCLA)

Shinwon Kang (UC Berkeley)

Iman Khajenasiri (Sharif University of Technology)

Yanghyo Kim (UCLA)

Abbas Komijani (Atheros)

Tai-Cheng Lee (National Taiwan University)

Antonio Liscidini (University of Pavia)

Shen-Iuan Liu (National Taiwan University)

Xiaodong Liu (Lund University)

Jian Hua Lu (UCLA)

Howard Luong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Elvis Mak (University of Macau)

Rabih Makarem (Atheros)

Rui Martins (University of Macau)

Andrea Mazzanti (University of Pavia)

Karthik Natarajan (University of Washington)

Nitin Nidhi (UCLA)

Joung Park (UCLA)

Paul Park (Atheros)

Stefano Pellerano (Intel)

Jafar Savoj (Xilinx)

Parmoon Seddighrad (University of Washington)

Alireza Shirvani (Ralink)

Tirdad Sowlati (Qualcomm)

Francesco Svelto (University of Pavia)

Enrico Temporiti (ST Microelectronics)

Federico Vecchi (University of Pavia)

Vijay Viswam (Lund University)

Vidojkovic Vojkan (IMEC)

Ning Wang (UCLA)

Weifeng Wang (Beken)

Zhi Gong Wang (Southeast University)

Marco Zanuso (UCLA)

Yunfeng Zhao (Beken)

Alireza Zolfaghari (Broadcom)

I am thankful for their enthusiastic, organized, and to-the-point reviews.

The book’s production was proficiently managed by the staff at Prentice Hall, including Bernard Goodwin and Julie Nahil. I would like to thank both.

As with my other books, my wife, Angelina, typed the entire second edition in Latex and selflessly helped me in this three-and-a-half-year endeavor. I am grateful to her.

—Behzad Razavi