About the editor RAVENDER GOYAL is Product Manager in the PCB Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, Oregon. He is responsible for high speed digital and RF/ Telecom system design strategy. Previously, he was director of foundry services and design automation at Anadigics, Inc., developing GaAs-based analog, digital, and RF circuits. He received a master of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1979, and an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1981. Mr. Goyal, a senior member of IEEE, has authored more than 45 technical journal, conference, and invited papers and is the coauthor of the book Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits: Technology and Design. He is a member of the Editorial Board and the Technical Program Committee of IEEE/MTTs.