Dr. Yankin Tanurhan is the senior director of Actel Corporation's systems engineering group, where he leads Actel's all new architecture design, IP and MPU engineering, system and HW tools and product validation departments. He is also in charge of Actel's embedded FPGA, embedded processor and DSP activities. Prior to joining Actel he holds senior management positions in system level design area at Synopsys. He also served as the director of the department of electronic systems and microsystems of FZI-Forschungszentrum Informatik, and held senior positions at the Institute of Computer Aided Circuit Design and Informatik Forum in Germany, where he lead international hardware/software codesign projects. He has more than 50 publications in refereed magazines. Dr. Tanurhan holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rheinisch Westfaellische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany and a Dr. Ing. Degree summa cum laude in Embedded Systems from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Karlsruhe, Germany.