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Brian Bailey is an independent engineering consultant working in the fields of Electronic System Level (ESL) methodologies and functional verification of embedded systems. He was previously chief technologist for verification at Mentor Graphics, where he pioneered work on hardware/software co-design and co-verification. He is the editor for the EETimes Designlines and a contributing editor to EDN. Embedded systems are the point where hardware and software come together, and this is where Brian Bailey has spent most of his working career, first as a tool developer, then as an architect, and later as a technology writer. He has concentrated on the impact that hardware and software can have on each other and the ways in which this is changing over time into the heterogeneous, concurrent, connected applications of today. He has published seven books, given talks around the world, chairs international standards committees, and sits on the technical advisory board for several EDA companies. He graduated from Brunel University in England with a first class honors degree in electrical and electronic engineering.

Max Maxfield is editor in chief of All Programmable Planet, a site about all things programmable. He received his BSc in Control Engineering in 1980 from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, UK. He began his career as a designer of central processing units (CPUs) for mainframe computers. Over the years, Max has designed everything from silicon chips to circuit boards, and from brainwave amplifiers to steampunk "Display-O-Meters." He has also been at the forefront of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for more than 20 years.

Max has authored and co-authored a number of books, including Designus Maximus Unleashed! (banned in Alabama), Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics, EDA: Where Electronics Begins, FPGAs: Instant Access, and How Computers Do Math.

Fanny Mlinarsky has 28 years of experience developing data communication and test products. As President of octoScope (2006–present) she is responsible for the development of wireless test solutions. From 2001 to 2006 she was founder and CTO of Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor of WiFi, WiMax, and LTE test systems. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment (1993–2001). She has published more than 50 articles and whitepapers on wireless technologies and standards and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. She actively participates in industry standards development at IEEE and 3GPP.