Rich Edelman is a Verification Technologist specializing in helping customers adopt and deploy the UVM and OVM. Rich has worked in ASIC companies, EDA consulting, EDA start-ups, and 2 of the big three. Rich first got involved with the AVM while developing his “RPS training class”, which was an easy way for people to learn about the AVM. Rich’s verification interests range from DPI and transaction recording to register modeling, sequences and class-based debug. Rich has published many related conference papers, including a Best Paper on SystemVerilog DPI at DVCON, and various transaction recording papers with IPSOC. Rich received a BSEE, a BSCS and an MSCS from Washington University in St. Louis