Professor Khaled BEN KHALIFA received his MSc in physics–microelectronics and his DEA in Materiaux et Dispositive pour l'electronique and a PhD diploma in physics–electronics from the University  of Monastir, Tunisia, in 1999, 2001 and 2006, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor (electrical engineering) in High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, University of Sousse, Tunisia, and Senior Researcher at the “Technologie et Imagerie Médicale Laboratory (LR12ES06)” at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Monastir, Tunisia. His research interests are related to real-time embedded systems, FPGA-based systems, system-on-chip, neural networks and heterogeneous multiprocessor architectures.