ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

          First and foremost I must acknowledge, with love and appreciation, the encouragement, the patience, the understanding and the support of my family, Zühre Sozeri, Nermin AKSIN and Ýbrahim AKSIN.

          I wish to thank Prof. Dr. Ugur Çilingiroglu, the supervisor of this thesis for his countless useful comments and suggestions. I must salute his respectable character permitting us to communicate with him as an engineer, as a student, as a colleague and as a friend.

          I extend gratitude to my colleague Dr. Ali Zeki, Dr. Banu Pamir, Sualp Aras and specially Dr. Barbaros Sekerkiran for their many helpful and constructive remarks during the development of the original ideas in this thesis.

          Finally, I acknowledge ETA ASIC Design Center supporting me with its software and hardware infrastructure during all phases of the work.

Devrim AKSIN
24.4.1999

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