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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
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his is my third book and I have been very fortunate to get help from many people around
me in all of these projects. Professor Shahid Bokhari at the University of Engineering and Tech-
nology Lahore, Pakistan, provided valuable suggestions while I was creating table of contents
for this book. In fact he proposed a mini table of contents about what should be included in the
book to make it useful both for the developers and students of computer science and engineer-
ing. I am grateful for his continued support.
Mike Schoenborn, Amgad Fahmy, and Greg Ratcliff at Peco II Inc. continuously encour-
aged me during the time I was writing the manuscript and I am thankful to all of them. I am also
thankful to Victor Kean for providing his life experiences both in real social life and software
development.
I am also thankful to Jill Harry and Mary Sudul at Prentice Hall PTR for bearing with me
and pushing me to meet deadlines which really helped bring this book to the market in time.
Drew Streib did a great job in reviewing the manuscript and giving very useful suggestions
to improve it. Thanks Drew.
Jim Shappell at Arcom Control Systems provided x86 based board for testing embedded
development examples and remote debugging. Cole Creighton at Artesyn Communication Prod-
ucts provided PowerPC based board for cross-platform development testing purpose. I am
thankful to both of them for their help in developing the manuscript of this book.