Chris Spear
Chris brings over twenty five years of EDA expertise to Siemens EDA customers and is currently a Functional Verification Principal Instructor with <a href="https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/eda-training/" target="_blank" title="Siemens EDA Learning Services">Siemens EDA Learning Services</a>. Holding a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Chris has developed deep roots in the EDA industry, including as a Principal Application Consultant with Synopsys. Chris is also an industry author, writing the 2012 best-selling “<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781461407140" target="_blank" title="SystemVerilog for Verification">SystemVerilog for Verification</a>” and developing the IEEE standard for random seeding and File I/O PLI package that is part of SystemVerilog. Having taught thousands of engineers around the world, Chris is driven by a passion for learning new techniques and then helping others learn best practices for hardware verification. Outside of work, you may see Chris bicycling over 10,000-foot mountain passes.
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SystemVerilog Oct 27, 2021 Chris Spear Track
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- Cliff Cummings
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- Brian Craw
- Adam Rose
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- Farhad Ahmed
- Jin Zhang
- Mathew Yee
- Gordon Allan
- Harmel Sangha
- Joe Hupcey
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- Thomas Ellis
- Ivan Ristic
- John Aynsley
- Sriram Hariharan
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- Dominic Lucido
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- Shubhankar Deshmukh
- Jim Lewis
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- Matthew Ballance
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- Charles Battikha
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- Larry Lapides
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- Chuck Seeley
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