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.

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.

December 2nd, 2021

Three Key Aspects Of IP Quality

Functional correctness, robustness, and readability of IP are vital for high-quality, reusable designs.

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.

December 10th, 2020

e Language Users Deserve IDE Support Too

e has unique capabilities that keep it in active use, and IDE features for other languages are also available for e.

September 25th, 2020

Extract Benefit from the Automated Refactoring of VHDL Code

VHDL users benefit greatly from DVT Eclipse IDE, with its deep insight into the language and its easy-to-use GUI.

August 12th, 2020

How IDEs Enable the ‘shift left’ for VHDL

Checking VHDL coding errors on the fly and offering quick fix proposals is a shift left in the development process.

June 2nd, 2020

VHDL Users Also Deserve Efficient Design and Verification

Moving, tracing, and searching across multiple VHDL files helps when debugging errors or trying to understand a design.

January 19th, 2020

Accelerate Your UVM Adoption and Usage with an IDE

The UVM Browser View is an intuitive entry point for exploring a UVM-based testbench, with elements grouped by categories.

November 21st, 2019

Accelerating the Adoption of Portable Stimulus

PSS support in DVT Eclipse IDE makes learning the DSL much easier and saves time in common operations, even for experts.