Matthew Ballance is a Product Engineer and Portable Stimulus Technologist at Siemens EDA, working with the inFact Portable Stimulus product and the Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group. Over the past 20 years in the EDA industry, he has worked in product development, marketing, and management roles in the areas of hardware/software co-verification, transaction-level modeling, IP encapsulation and reuse, and Portable Test and Stimulus.