Tom Anderson

Technical Marketing Consultant |

Tom Anderson is a technical marketing consultant working with multiple EDA vendors, including AMIQ EDA.

His previous roles have included vice president of marketing at Breker Verification Systems, vice president of applications engineering at 0-In Design Automation, vice president of engineering at IP pioneer Virtual Chips, group director of product management at Cadence, and director of technical marketing at Synopsys.

He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

December 30th, 2025

Runtime Elaboration of UVM Verification Code in DVT IDE

DVT IDE actually performs a “run 0” internally to allow all the UVM elaboration to happen. We call this process UVM runtime elaboration to reflect its non-static nature.

December 4th, 2025

11 Myths About the Portable Stimulus Standard

Is the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) living up to its promise of portable verification and validation across levels of hierarchy and platforms?

October 2nd, 2025

Refactoring Tactics for Cleaner RTL and Faster Simulation in Verilog and SystemVerilog

Learn how refactoring improves your Verilog and System Verilog code. Tactics and tools to accelerate simulation, improve RTL, and simplify maintenance.

October 2nd, 2025

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Hardware Design and Verification

Learn what a hardware IDE is and how it works, its role in accelerating HDL design and verification, and how it differs from editors, compilers, and simulators.

October 2nd, 2025

What Is RISC-V & How Does It Work?

Learn what RISC-V is, its benefits and limitations. 101 guide on why is this open-source ISA so popular that it's reshaping processor design.

October 31st, 2024

Adding an AI Assistant to a Hardware Language IDE

AI Assistant a new feature of our DVT IDE family that helps hardware engineers be even more productive when developing code for the design and verification of complex chips. The knowledge contained in LLMs, when combined with our own insight into the design and testbench, enables users to generate, modify, and understand code more easily.

August 6th, 2024

Writing Better Code More Quickly with an IDE and Linting

Verissimo has caught some tricky variable bit width issues where a macro hid that only the lowest order bit was being compared. Both DVT IDE and Verissimo also save a lot of time. In the past, we found that when we wrote or edited code we spent too much time in a compile-debug-fix loop until it was clean. This happened hundreds, maybe thousands, of times on every project. With the ability to find and fix errors interactively within the IDE, that loop is significantly shorter. We get great team style alignment, with more efficient code reviews. So clearly we save many weeks of effort.

October 7th, 2021

Delivering Three Key Aspects of IP Quality

There are three main requirements to IP quality. The most obvious is functional correctness, another is IP robustness, and last but not least, IP maintainability. AMIQ EDA has products that help you meet such requirements.

June 22nd, 2021

11 Myths About Integrated Development Environments

IDEs were introduced to improve the efficiency and accuracy of writing and maintaining code, providing easier file navigation, hierarchical views of the project codebase, etc. However, myths have arisen about IDEs, and this article looks to clear the air.

April 24th, 2018

Making Power Intent Specification Easy

By supporting power intent formats, the same IDE used for design and verification code can ensure consistency across all files