To our reviewers, we wish to thank those who spent time providing feedback and suggestions, especially during the formative months of creating floating-point material (no small task): Matthew Swabey, Purdue University; Nicholas Outram, Plymouth University (UK); Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University; Jim Garside, University of Manchester (UK); Gary Debes, Texas Instruments; and David Lutz, Neil Burgess, Kevin Welton, Chris Stephens, and Joe Bungo, ARM.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to those who helped with tools and images, answered myriad questions, and got us out of a few messy legal situations: Scott Specker at Texas Instruments, who was brave enough to take our challenge of producing five lines of assembly code in Code Composer Studio, only to spend the next three days getting the details ironed out; Ken Havens and the great FAEs at Keil; Cathy Wicks and Sue Cozart at Texas Instruments; and David Llewellyn at ARM.
As always, we would like to extend our appreciation to Nora Konopka, who believed in the book enough to produce the second edition, and Joselyn Banks-Kyle and the production team at CRC Press for publishing and typesetting the book.
William Hohl
Chris Hinds
June 2014