Gordon Allan is the Questa Verification IP Product Manager at Siemens EDA. Gordon was one of the architects and developers of Accellera UVM, and was responsible for the UVM/OVM Methodology Cookbooks published on the Verification Academy website and appreciated by over 65,000 engineers worldwide, as well as several conference papers on Verification topics at DVCon and elsewhere. Prior to joining the EDA industry in 2010 he gained over 18 years of SoC Design and Verification experience in lead engineer and senior consultant roles, working with many of the top semiconductor companies, fabless startups, system houses and EDA companies worldwide and giving him firsthand experience of customers’ challenges from spec to tapeout. Gordon is based in Silicon Valley.