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Acknowledgments

Special thanks for technical advice go to Alvin Brown, Alon Kfir,
Don Kuk, and Preston Jett, the closest thing to living encyclopedic
reference manuals one could hope to meet. (The reason that the text
contains so few bibliographic references is due to the fact that I never
had to look anything up-I simply asked the relevant expert for the
definitive answer.)
I would also like to thank Dave Thompson from Mentor Graphics,
Tamara Snowden and Robert Bielby from Xilinx, Stuart Hamilton from
NEC, Richard Gordon and Gary Smith from Gartner Dataquest, Richard
Goering from EE Times, high-speed design expert Lee Ritchey from
Speeding Edge, and circuit board technologist Happy Holden from
Westwood Associates, all of whom helped out with critical nuggets of
information ]lust when I needed them the most.
Thanks also to Joan Doggrell, who labored furiously to meet my
ridiculous deadlines. An old friend and expert copy editor, Joan not only
corrected my syntax and grammar, but also offered numerous suggestions
that greatly improved the final result. (In the unlikely event that any
errors did creep in, they can only be attributed to cosmic rays and have
nothing whatsoever to do with me.)
Last but not least, I should also like to mention my daughters-Abby
and Lucie-without whom this book would never have materialized
(they so depleted my financial resources that I was obliged to look for a
supplemental source of income).

- Clive (Max) Maxfield, June 2002