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We introduced the design and development tools called fuzzy logic, threshold logic, and perceptrons and presented a brief high‐level overview of how fuzzy logic compares with the traditional crisp logic and other possible sources of additional information. The topics discussed are contributing to and pushing the limits of several very interesting technologies.

The full book can provide a powerful tool for the student in the traditional undergraduate electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computing science programs as well as the practicing engineer.

Our goal in introducing the technologies and designing systems based upon those technologies covered in the book is to help people solve today's and tomorrow's interesting and challenging problems. We stress very strongly that the traditional design, test processes, and formal methods (particularly including safety and reliability) do not go away; rather they become more relevant as we move to ever‐increasingly complex systems.

As you work through the book, try to remember a couple of things. People use our products – our designs can affect people's lives. Once again, always do your best to make your designs as safe and as reliable as you can for each application. Remember too that the cost of a product isn't limited to the cost of the parts that make it up. We also have to consider costs of building, selling, supporting, and adding new features to your design.

Remember that good system designers and designs proceed using a minimum of six steps:

 ✓ Requirements Definition

 ✓ System Specification

 ✓ Functional Design

 ✓ Architectural Design

 ✓ Prototyping

 ✓ Testing

Finally, remember that our responsibility for a design doesn't end with design release. Also, we stress that a good, solid, and reliable design always begins with a firm foundation. Without that, everything we add later is fragile. Good luck, have fun, and learn from each design.