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IEEE COUNCIL on ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LETTERS Is Published by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation IEEE COUNCIL ON ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LETTERS is published by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation. The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) is an organizational unit of the IEEE that has six IEEE member societies, namely: Antennas and Propagation, Circuits and Systems, Computer, Electron Devices, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Solid-State Circuits Societies. The objectives of CEDA include fostering design automation of electronic circuits and systems at all levels, by means of publications, conferences/workshops and volunteer activities. All members of the IEEE can subscribe to the Council’s publications and will receive this LETTERS upon payment of the annual subscription fee of $45.00. To start your subscription, go to http://www.c-eda.org or write to the address below. Member copies of Transactions/Journals are for personal use only. EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KRITHI RAMAMRITHAM CATHERINE GEBOTYS Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay University of Waterloo Mumbai 400 076, India 200 University Avenue West E-mail: [email protected] Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Embedded Security Embedded Sensor Platforms Design and Verification Methodologies and Tools ANAND RAGHUNATHAN PAI H. CHOU YOSINORI WATANABE Purdue University University of California, Irvine and Cadence Research Laboratories National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Cyber-Physical Systems, Real-Time Systems PRABAL DUTTA TAREK ABDELZAHER Embedded Security University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Illinois, GANG QU Urbana-Champaign Reconfigurable Systems University of Maryland RYAN KASTNER Embedded Systems Specification and Modeling University of California, San Diego SANDEEP SHUKLA Digital Signal Processing Architectures Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Embedded Processor Architectures JAMES HOE University RAKESH KUMAR Carnegie Mellon University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Embedded Control and Hybrid Systems PAULO TABUADA Design Methods for Embedded Systems Power Efficient Embedded Systems University of California, DONATELLA SCIUTO JOSE L. AYALA Los Angeles Politecnico di Milano, Italy Complutense University of Madrid, Spain ADVISORY BOARD ANDREAS KUEHLMANN, University of California, Berkeley JACK GANSSLE, Ganssle Group MARILYN WOLF, Georgia Institute of Technology NIKIL DUTT, University of California, Irvine DINESH RAMANATHAN, Cypress Semiconductor FENG ZHAO, Microsoft Research KRITHI RAMAMRITHAM, IIT Bombay, India IEEE OFFICERS CEDA OFFICERS MOSHE KAM, President ANDREAS KUEHLMANN, President GORDON W. DAY, President-Elect DONATELLA SCIUTO, President-Elect ROGER D. POLLARD, Secretary JOHN A. DARRINGER, Past President HAROLD FLESCHER, Treasurer SANI NASSIF, VP—Conferences PEDRO A. RAY, Past President DAVID ATIENZA ALONSO, VP—Finance TARIQ S. DURRANI, Vice President, Educational Activities RAJESH K. GUPTA, VP—Publications DAVID A. HODGES, Vice President, Publication Services and Products SHISHPAL S. RAWAT, VP—Technical Activities HOWARD E. MICHEL, Vice President, Member and Geographic Activities WILLIAM H. 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