LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Gerd Ascheid
RWTH Aachen University
Gerd Ascheid is a full professor at the Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology department of RWTH Aachen University, heading
the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems. He was co-founder
of CADIS GmbH, which commercialized COSSAP. Prior to joining the
university in 2003 he was Senior Director for Professional Services in Wire-
less and Broadband Communications at Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View,
California. His research interest is in wireless communications, MPSoC
architectures and design tools.
Göran Bilski
Xilinx, Inc.
Göran Bilski is a principal engineer at Xilinx where he has architect
and designed the soft processor MicroBlaze. He is also involved in the
overall direction of the embedded processing at Xilinx. His prior works
includes system engineering for space applications, processor architec-
ture design, ASIC and FPGA developments. He has 20 years of industry
experience of embedded processing and holds several US patents in this
area. He earned his M.S. in Computer Science from Chalmers Technical
University, Sweden.
Philip Brisk
University of California, Los Angeles
Philip Brisk is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the
University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Bachelor’s and Mas-
ter’s Degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Los
Angeles, in 2002 and 2003 respectively, while working in the Embedded
and Reconfigurable Systems Laboratory. His research interests include
compilers and synthesis for embedded systems.
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Newton Cheung
VaST Systems Technology Corporation
Newton Cheung received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland in 2002, and
the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of New
South Wales in 2005. He has been working at VaST Systems Technology
Corporation as an engineer since 2005. His research interests include
design automation methodology, customizable/extensible proc