Dr. S. Ramachandran is a project officer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has a wide industrial and teaching experience, having worked both in India and USA, designing systems and teaching/guiding students based on FPGAs and Microprocessors. His research interests include developing algorithms, architectures and implementations on FPGAs/ASICs for Video Processing, DSP applications, reconfigurable computing, open loop control systems, etc. He is the recipient of the Best Design Award at VLSI Design 2000, International Conference held at