Claudio Talarico is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gonzaga University. He has also worked at Eastern Washington University, University of Arizona, University of Hawaii, and in industry where he held both engineering and management positions in the area of VLSI integrated circuits. The companies he worked for include Infineon Technologies in Sophia Antipolis, France, IKOS Systems in Cupertino, CA and Marconi Communications, in Genova, Italy. His main areas of expertise are the design of low power and high performance digital and mixed analog-digital VLSI integrated circuits and systems, the design and analysis of embedded systems on chip, hardware/software co-design of embedded systems, and computer-aided design methodologies.