The authors would very much like to acknowledge the support and contribution of some excellent people, both inside our relevant organizations, at our partners and beyond (those named in the following list are either within Synopsys® or Xilinx® unless otherwise stated). The following people have acted in very many different roles from partner and advisor, through reviewer up to and including contributor of written material. Some are colleagues, some managers and many are technical consultants and R&D professionals inside our two organizations but most noteworthy of all are the industry leaders who are performing FPGA-based prototyping in labs around the world every day, to this last group is this book dedicated.
The FPMM project started with extensive interviews with R&D professionals in our own labs. We have a great deal of internal expertise on FPGA-based prototyping and following folks got us off to a flying start; Alf Larsson, Anders Nagle, Andreas Jahn, Bo Nilsson, David Svensson, David Taylor, Jonas Magnuson, Jonas Nilsson, Martin Johansson, Mathias Svensson, Matthias Lange, Michael Roeder, Michael Schmidt, Ronny Franz, Steffi Sier and Sven Lasch.
Then over the duration of the project many other R&D advisors have joined to make their contribution including, Antonio Costa, Kevin Smart, Nithin Kumar Guggilla, Peter Gillen, Pradeep Gothi, Rajkumar Methuku, Ramanan Sanjeevi Krishnan, Sanjana Nair, Sivaramalingam Palaniappan, Torrey Lewis and Vidyullatha Murthy. To these hard-working people and those above, we offer our thanks for finding the time to help us with the examples, diagrams and insight.
Outside of R&D we have just as a strong a technical expertise in the applications consultants teams and services teams within both Xilinx and Synopsys. Some of these also became long term advisors in our bi-weekly calls discussing many aspects of the use of FPGA-based prototyping in our locales, some provided examples or reviewed drafts. In particular, we want to acknowledge Andy Jolley, Bob Efram, Chuck Banken, David Castle, Davin Lim, Derek Johnson, Tom Fairbairn, Doug Fisher, Edmund Fung, Frederic Rivoallon, Jim Heaton, Jon Talbot, Mark Nadon, Mike Cole, Peter Calabrese, Pradeep Kumar, Robert Perry, Tom Fairbairn, Tom West, Will Cummings and Chelman Wong. To you all, we offer our sincere thanks for your encouragement.
About halfway through, we invited industry leaders to join the FPMM Review Council in order to provide feedback on the drafts which were becoming available at that time. Some went further and took part in interviews and even donated content for the book that you see before you. To all the following reviewers and contributors, we offer our thanks for sharing their insight as leaders in the field of FPGA-based prototyping: Andrew Gardner (ST-Ericsson), Andy O’Brien (Intel Corp.), Brian Nowak (LSI Corp.), Clay Douglass (Intel Corp.), David Stoller (Texas Instruments), Fernando Martinez (NVIDIA Corp.), Gavin Dolling (Displaylink Ltd.), German Fabila Garcia (Intel Corp.), GN Choudhary (STMicroelectronics), Graham Deacon (Imagination Technologies Ltd.), Helena Krupnova (STMicroelectronics), Javier Jimenez (Marvell Hispania), Joel Sandgathe (Microvision Inc.), Justin Mitchell (BBC Research & Development), Sabyasachi Dey (Qualcomm), Scott Constable (Freescale Semiconductor), Spencer Saunders (ARM Ltd.), Steve Ravet (ARM Ltd), Tim Stretch (ST-Ericsson) and Yuji Yoshitani (Fujitsu).
A book is a long project and involves many tasks to bring to completion including editing, formatting, proofreading, drawing, artwork, project planning, funding and copy writing, administration and more besides. We would like to acknowledge the following colleagues both within Synopsys and Xilinx and amongst our partners, who are a credit to their profession: Chris Dace (copy, proofing), David Abada (copy), Frank Schirrmeister (copy), Irene Economou (planning), Jeff Baran (website), Lisa Rivera (production), Nancy Weiss (planning), Phil Dworsky (publishing, legal), Rena Ayeras (artwork, formatting), Rick England (copy), Sheryl Gulizia (PR), Taeko Tanaka (artwork), Tom Sidle (copy), Tony Smith (Perforce info): and Carol Amos (tea, smiles).
There are also some other colleagues in our teams upon whose expertise we were privileged to be able to draw. Thanks to all of you for helping to bring the FPMM to completion: Angela Sutton, Dave Vornholt, Greg Lara, Gunnar Scholl, Janick Bergeron, Jeff Garrison, John Simmons, Karen Bartleson, Larry Vivolo, Laura MacIvor, Markus Willems, Mick Posner, Mike Lux, Mike Santarini, Phil Morris and Robert Smith.
And finally, last but definitely not least, we want to salute the management of both Synopsys and Xilinx who had the vision, the faith and above all, the budget, to see this project through to completion. To roll of honor includes Andrew Dauman, Bruce Jewett, David Tokic, Ed Bard, Gary Meyers, George Zafiropoulos, Heiko Mauersberger, John Koeter, Patrick Dorsey, Rajiv Maheshwary and Steve Trimberger.
Very many thanks to all of the above.
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