Doug Smith is an Application Engineering Consultant for Mentor Graphics based in the Austin Texas area where he provides tool, language, and verification methodology support across the Questa simulation and formal functional verification platform. Doug started his career at Sun Microsystems, performing block and fullchip verification as part of the UltraSparcV processor team, and emulated the UltraSparcIII and ASIC chipset for Sun's workgroup servers. Afterwards, he led and managed a team of verification engineers overseas offering SoC and IP verification services on large designs such as TI's OMAP processors and Freescale's GSM radio. He also worked on 802.11 MAC/PHY verification and his team specialized in synthesizable, emulation-friendly verification IP.
Prior to Mentor, he provided application support in formal technologies, and was a subject-matter expert as a trainer and consultant for Doulos, where he delivered training in design best-practices, verification methodologies like UVM, and hardware languages like VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog. Doug holds a masters degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a bachelors degree in Physics from Northern Kentucky University. Currently, he resides in Paige, Texas with his wife and two of his three children as a beekeeper and hobby farmer.