ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the help of a number of
people, and I would like to express my gratitude to all of them. Rod Far-
row, Cary Ussery, Alec Stanculescu, and Ken Scott answered a multitude
of questions about some of the vagaries of VHDL. Mark Beardslee and
Derek Palmer for their review of parts of the third edition. Their com-
ments were both helpful and insightful. Paul Krol developed the chart in
Chapter 7 that describes generics. Keith Irwin helped define the style of
some of the chapters. Hoa Dinh and David Emrich for answering a lot
of questions about FPGA synthesis. Thanks to John Ott and Dennis Bro-
phy for making the ModelSim and Leonardo Spectrum software available
during the writing and for the software on the CD. Thanks to Derek
Palmer and Robert Blake of Altera for making the MaxPlus II software
available and answering questions. Finally thanks to Endric Schubert,
Mark Beardslee, Gernot Koch, Olaf Poeppe, Matt Hall, Michael Eitel-
wein, Ewald Detjens, and William Vancleemput for all of their hard work
with Bridges2Silicon.