Encarnación Castillo received an MS and PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, she was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electronics and Computer Technology, University of Granada, where she is currently an Associate Professor. She has authored more than 50 technical papers for international journals. Her current research interests include IP protection of very-large-scale integration (VLSI)- and field-programmable-gate-array-based systems, as well as residue number system arithmetic, VLSI and FPL signal processing systems, and the combination of digital and analog programmable technologies for smart instrumentation for biosignal processing. She also serves regularly as a reviewer for IEEE journals.