Peter Ashenden Ashenden Designs Pty. Ltd. PO Box 640 Stirling, SA 5152 Australia Email: peter@ashenden.com.au Phone: +61 8 7127 0078 VoIP: sip://0871270078@sip.internode.on.net

Bio

Dr. Ashenden received his B.Sc.(Hons) and Ph.D. from Adelaide University, South Australia. He is an independent consultant specializing in electronic design automation (EDA). He is actively involved in IEEE and Accellera working groups developing VHDL standards, and is past Chair of the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC). He is the author of The Designer's Guide to VHDL and The Student's Guide to VHDL, coauthor of The Systems Designer's Guide to VHDL-AMS, and author of the forthcoming textbooks Digital Logic Design: An Embedded Systems Approach with VHDL and Digital Logic Design: An Embedded Systems Approach with Verilog.

Dr. Ashenden is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is also a volunteer Firefighter with the SA Country Fire Service.

Clients for whom Dr. Ashenden has consulted include:

• National Semiconductor Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
• Telectronics, Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia
• Motorola Australia Software Centre, Adelaide, Australia
• Centre for Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Adelaide, Australia
• Averstar, Vienna, VA, USA
• OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany
• FTL Systems, Chilworth, UK
• Celoxica Ltd, Abingdon, UK
• Bluehead Software, Lawrence, KS, USA
• Accellera, California, USA
• TM Associates, Oregon City, OR, USA
• University of California Irvine Extension, CA, USA
• EDAptive Computing Inc, Dayton, OH, USA
• Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Cadstone Inc, Lawrence, KS, USA
• The University of Adelaide, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• The University of Adelaide, School of Computer Science