ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jean-Pierre Deschamps received a MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1967, a PhD in computer science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, in 1982, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1983. He has worked in several companies and universities. He is currently a professor at the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. His research interests include ASIC and FPGA design, digital arithmetic, and cryptography. He is the author of six books and about a hundred international papers.

Géry Jean Antoine Bioul received a MS degree in physical aerospace engineering from the University of Liège, Belgium. He worked in digital systems design with PHILIPS Belgium and in computer-aided industrial logistics with several Fortune-100 U.S. companies in the United States, and Africa. He has been a professor of computer architecture in several universities mainly in Africa and South America. He is currently a professor at the State University UNCPBA of Tandil (Buenos Aires), Argentina, and a professor consultant at the Saint Thomas University FASTA of Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires), Argentina. His research interests include logic design and computer arithmetic algorithms and implementations. He is the author of about 50 international papers and patents on fast arithmetic units.

Gustavo D. Sutter received a MS degree in Computer Science from the State University UNCPBA of Tandil (Buenos Aires), Argentina, and a PhD degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. He has been a professor at the UNCPBA, Argentina and is currently a professor at the University Autonoma of Madrid, Spain. His research interests include ASIC and FPGA design, digital arithmetic, and development of embedded systems. He is the author of about 30 international papers and communications.