Pradeep Salla manages the Verification team at Mentor Graphics India. He is responsible for driving and supporting the Verification technology team and also develop markets for Mentor Graphics in India. Prior to Mentor Graphics, he has worked in various organizations such as Renesas Electronics, Nokia & MindTree and has a total experience of about 13 years in Functional Verification. He received his Master’s in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and B.E from Bangalore University. His area of expertise include architecting reusable testbenches at IP, Subsystem and SoC level, Power Aware verification, Design for Software Debug among others.