Jef van Meerbergen received the Electrical Engineering Degree and the Ph.D. degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1975 and 1980, respectively. In 1979 he joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He was engaged in the design of MOS digital circuits, domain-specific processors and general-purpose digital signal processors. In 1985 he started working on application-driven high-level synthesis. Initially this work was targeted towards audio and telecom DSP applications. Later the application domain shifted towards high-throughput applications. The Phideo paper received the best paper award at the 1997 ED&TC conference. His current interests are in system level design methods, heterogeneous multiprocessor systems and reconfigurable architectures. Jef van Meerbergen is a Philips Research Fellow and Associate Editor of "Design Automation for Embedded Systems". He is a part-time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.