Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following people for reviewing this book or for providing me with their advice and feedback:

Alan Tringham, Dan Brook, David Brash, Haydn Povey, Gary Campbell, Kevin McDermott, Richard Earnshaw, Samin Ishtiaq, Shyam Sadasivan, Simon Axford, Simon Craske, Simon Smith, Stephen Theobald and Wayne Lyons.

I would also like to thank CodeSourcery for their technical support, and Luminary Micro for providing images for the book cover, and of course, the staff at Elsevier for their professional work towards the publication of this book.

Finally, a special thank-you to Peter Cole and Ivan Yardley for inspiring me to write this book.