About the Author

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Ashok Mehta is an ASIC/CPU design and verification engineer with over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He has worked at companies such as DEC, Data General, Intel, Applied Micro and TSMC. He was an early member of the Verilog technical subcommittees. He is the holder of 19 US Patents in the field of ASIC and 3DIC design and verification. He is also the author of two popular books, one on "SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage" and second on "ASIC Functional Design Verification - A guide to technologies and methodologies". His current interest include 3DIC semiconductor design verification, System Level Modeling (Virtual Platform) and verification methodologies in general.