Ming-Bo Lin is a Professor of Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Professor Lin received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the National Taiwan Institute of Technology, Taipei, his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been teaching the courses related to the field of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics for over twenty-five years. He was an adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University. His research interests include VLSI system designs, mixed-signal integrated circuit designs, parallel architectures and algorithms, and embedded computer systems. He has published numerous journal and conference papers in these areas. In addition, he has directed the designs of over fifty ASICs and has been consulted in industry extensively in the fields of ASIC, SoC, and embedded system designs. He is a senior member of IEEE. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He chaired the Workshop on Computer Architectures, Embedded Systems, and VLSI/EDA in National Computer Symposium (NCS) 2009. During the past twenty-five years, Professor Lin has translated two books and authored about thirty books (include revisions), especially including the following English textbooks 1. Ming-Bo Lin, Digital System Designs and Practices: Using Verilog HDL and FPGAs, John Wiley & Sons, 2008. (ISBN: 9780470823231) 2. Ming-Bo Lin, Introduction to VLSI Systems: A Logic, Circuit, and System Perspective, CRC Press, 2012. (ISBN: 9781439868591)