Eric Monmasson (eric.monmasson@cyu.fr) earned his Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Ingénieurs d’Electrotechnique d’Electronique d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse, France, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Since 2003, he has been a full professor at CY Cergy Paris University, Paris, 95031, France. His research interests include field-programmable gate array-based and system on chip--based industrial control systems. He was the chair of the Technical Committee on Electronic Systems-on-Chip of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) from 2008 to 2011. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.