Andy Meyer has over 20 years experience in hardware design on. He received his BS from the University of Illinois, and his MSCE from the University of Massachusetts. Andy won a 1981 fellowship to the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. Andy is currently the Chief Technical Officer and founder of ASIC Alliance Corporation, a design and design verification consulting company with headquarters in Woburn, MA. Andy has experience in many hardware domains, especially in the communications area, and is also the original developer of TestBenchPlus, an EDA tool for high-level verification.