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Acknowledgements,
“The preliminary versions of te complete manuscript fr te frst edition were reviewed by Dr. Hole
Bab of the University of Zagreb, Croatia: Dr. James F Kaiser of Duke University: Dr. Wolfgang FO
Mecklenbräuker ofthe Technical University of Vienna, Austr and De. PP. Vaidyanathan of the Califo
Insite of Technology. A later version was reviewed by Di. Roberto H. Bambmerger of Microsoft Dr.
CChusies Boumann of Purdue University; Dr Kevin Buckley of the University of Minnesota; Dr. Jon A.
Flemming ofthe Texas AM University: Dr. Jerry D. Gibson of the Souther Methodist University Dr
John Gowy of Clemson University: Dis James Haris and Mahmood Nahv of the California Polytechnic
‘University, San Louis Obispo: De Yih-Chyun Jeng of Portland State University; Dr Troung Q-Neyucn of
Boston University: and Dr Andreas Spanias of Arizona State University. Various par ofthe manuscript
were reviewed by Dr. C. Sidney Burrs of Rice Univers Dr. Richard V. Cox ofthe AT&T Laboratories
(Dr lan Galton of the Univers of Califomia, San Diego; Dr. Nikil S. Jayant of dhe Georgia Institute
of Technology: Dr. Tor Ramstad of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim,
Norway. Dr. B. Ananth Shenol of Wright Site Universiy: Dr. Hans W. Schüssler of the University of
Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany; Dr. Richard Schreier of Analog Devices and Dr, Gabor C. Temes of
Oregon State Universi
Reviews forthe second edition were provided by Dr. Winser E, Alexander of North Carolina State
University: De. Sobail A. Dianat of he Rochester Institute of Technology: Dr. Sulush Dutta Roy of he
cian Insite of Technology, New Delhi, Dr. David C: Farden of North Dakota State Univesity: Dr
Abdulnasir Y. Hossein of Sultan Qaboos Univesity, Sultanate of Oman: Dr. James E. Kaiser of Duke
University; Dr. Ramakrishna Kakarala of the Agilent Laboratories; D. Wolfgang FG. Mecklenbräuker of
the Technical University of Vienna, Austria; De Antonio Ortega of the University of Southern California:
Dr Stanley J. Reeves of Auburn University: Dr George Symos of he University of Maryland, College Par
‘and Dr. Gregory A. Wornel ofthe Massachusets Institute of Technology. Various pats ofthe manuscript
{or te second edition were reviewed by Dr. Dimitris Anssassiou of Columbia University: Dr Rajendra
K Arora of the Florida State Universi: Dr, Ramdas Kumaresan ofthe Univesity of Rhode Islan, Dr
Upamanyu Madhow of the University of California, Santa Barbara; De. Urbashi Mita and Randy Moses
YO io State University Dr, Ivan Selesnick of Poyteehnie University, Brooklyn, New York: and Dr Gabor
©. Temes of Oregon Sale Univer
Thank al of them for their valuable comments, which have improved the book tremendously.
Many of my former and present rescoeh student reviewed various portions ofthe manaseipt of both
tions and tested a number of the MarLas programs, In particular, I would like 10 thank Drs. Charles
1D. Creuser, Rajeev Gandhi, Michael Lightstone, Ing-Seng Lin. Luca Lucchese, Debargha Mukherjee,
Norbert Strobel, and Stefan Thumhoter, and Messrs. Serkan Hatipoplu, Zhai He, E Leipnik, Michael
Moore. and Mylene Queiroz de Faria, Lam also indebted al former students in my ECE 158 and ECE.
258A classesat the University of California, Santa Barbara, for ther feedback over the years, which helped
eine the book.
"thank Goutam K. Mitra and Alicia Rodriguez for the cover design ofthe book, Finally 1 thank
Patricia Monchon for her assistance inthe preparation ofthe LaTeX files ofthe second edition.