Paolo Faraboschi is a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Cambridge. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 1993 and joined HP Laboratories in 1994. His main interests include compilers, architectures and tools for high-performance instruction-level parallelism in embedded systems. Paolo is currently project manager for the "Custom-Fit Processors" (CFP) project at HP Labs Cambridge. For more technical information about the project you can visit our R&D pages at http://www.hpl.hp.com/cambridge/projects/cfp/.