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Primary Authors
Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Joseph T. Buck, Wan-Teh Chang, Michael J. Chen, Brian L. Evans, Edwin E. Goei, Soonhoi Ha, Paul Haskell, Chih-Tsung Huang, Wei-Jen Huang, Christopher Hylands, Asawaree Kalavade, Alan Kamas, Allen Lao, Edward A. Lee, Seungjun Lee, David G. Messerschmitt, Praveen Murthy, Thomas M. Parks, José Luis Pino, Gilbert Sih, S. Sriram, Michael C. Williamson, Kennard White.
Other contributors
Anindo Banerjea, Jeff Bier, Philip Bitar, Rachel Bowers, Andrea Casotto, Stefan De Troch (IMEC), Rolando Diesta, Martha Fratt, Eric Guntvedt, Mike Grimwood, Alireza Khazeni, Ed Knightly, Ichiro Kuroda (NEC), Erick Hamilton, Richard Han, David Harrison, Holly Heine, Wai-Hung Ho, John Hoch, Sangjin Hong, Steve How, Phil Lapsley, Jonathan Lee, Wei-Yi Li, Brian Mountford, Maureen O'Reilly, Sun-Inn Shih, Mario Jorge Silva, Rick Spickelmier, Gregory Walter, Anders Wass, Andria Wong, Anthony Wong, Chris Yu (NRL).
Principal Sponsors
Government: Advanced Research Projects Agencies (ARPA), The United States Air Force, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Technology (ONT) via the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and the State of California MICRO Program.
Industry: Bell Northern Research (BNR), The Alta Group of Cadence Design Systems, Dolby Laboratories, Hitachi America, Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics, Lockheed-Martin, Mentor Graphics, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Rockwell, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).The Ptolemy project is an ongoing research project focusing on design methodology for heterogeneous systems. Additional support for further research is always welcome.
Copyright © 1990-1997
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About the Cover
The image on the cover shows the retrogade motion of a planet, in which it appears to stop in its orbit and reverse direction before continuing on. Claudius Ptolemy, an astronomer from the second century A. D, codified the Greek geocentric view of the universe, and rationalized the apparent retrograde motion of the planets using epicycles. The Ptolemaic system remained the accepted wisdom until the Polish scholar Copernicus proposed a heliocentric view in 1543.
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