Introducing your forum Moderator, Dave Goldberg

Dave Goldberg, Synfora, (username DaveG) will be managing this forum as your Formal Verification expert. Dave will be promoting forum discussions through posts on topical industry issues, as well as ensuring your questions are answered in a timely manner.

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David was one of the founding members of Synfora, Inc., where he works as a hardware development engineer.  Prior to working at Synfora, David was an Engineer/Scientist at Hewlett-Packard, working on emerging embedded computing technologies to enable the next generation of smart devices from HP and other device manufacturers.

At Hewlett-Packard, David led VLSI design projects for HP's Enterprise Server Group in both Project Manager and Technical Leadership roles and did hardware development on VLSI chipsets and processors for 7 generations of PA-RISC workstations and servers, including floating-point coprocessors, PA-RISC microprocessors, multiprocessor systems interface ASICs and second-level cache controllers, as well as IO controllers.

Prior to working at Hewlett-Packard, David was an IC designer at Bell Laboratories, working on ASICs for telecommunications switching systems and Unix computer systems.

David holds 2 patents relating to custom IC physical design and has 1 patent pending related to highly reliable computer systems.  He was also the HP representative on the VSIA - Functional Verification Development Working Group.

David received his MSEE degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and holds a Bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University.