Ali SAYINTA recieved his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.) in Turkey. He joined ELIMKO (industrial automation and control devices manufacturing company) where he worked as a designer for microcontroller based control devices, being responsible for both HW and FW development. He is currently working for Alcatel Microelectronics in Istanbul as a design engineer. He is involved in activities on developing design methodologies for complex system designs, platform based designs and system modelling using SystemC.