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About the Author

James K. Peckol, Ph.D., is a Principal Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where he has been named Teacher of the Year three times and Outstanding Faculty twice. He is also the founder of Oxford Consulting, Ltd., a product design and development consulting firm. The author is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and has been presented with the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award.

His background spans over 50 years as an engineer and educator in the fields of software, digital, medical, and embedded systems design and development. Also, the author has published first and second editions of the book Embedded Systems: A Contemporary Design Tool.

As an engineer in the aerospace, commercial, and medical electronics industries, the author has worked on and contributed to the design and development of test systems for military aircraft navigation systems and radar systems, the Apollo color camera, various weather satellites, the Mars Viking Lander, flight control systems for a number of commercial aircraft, production of high‐quality electronic test instruments and measurement systems, and several defibrillation systems. Academic experience spans more than 25 years of developing and teaching software, digital design, fuzzy logic, approximate reasoning, networking, and embedded systems design courses for students from academe and industry with experience ranging from limited hardware or software backgrounds to those at the junior, senior, graduate, and industrial levels.