Tom Dillinger has more than 30 years of experience in the microelectronics industry, including semiconductor circuit design, fabrication process research, EDA tool development, instruction, and engineering management. He has been responsible for the design methodology development for ASIC, SoC, and complex microprocessor chips for IBM, Sun Microsystems/Oracle, and AMD. He is the author of the book VLSI Engineering and has written for SemiWiki.