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Mark Olen

Mark Olen is currently a Functional Verification Technologist at Mentor Graphics Corp. He has spent thirty years in semiconductor design verification and manufacturing test, and has authored papers in the areas of intelligent testbench automation, design for test technology, and semiconductor manufacturing test automation. He wrote his first testbench in 1981 at Raytheon, and went on to spend ten years working at Teradyne in the ATE and DFT industries. He became Vice President of Cascade Microtech's thin film wafer probe division, before co-founding Lighthouse Design Automation where graph-based Intelligent Testbench Automation was first successfully applied to semiconductor design verification. Mark graduated from MIT with a BS in EE&CS.

Who Knew VIP?

Who Knew VIP?

January 14, 2015
“Who Knew?” about verification IP (VIP), was the theme of a recent DeepChip post by John Cooley on December 18. ...
By Mark Olen
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Happy Halloween from ARM  TechCon

Happy Halloween from ARM TechCon

October 30, 2013
MENTOR GRAPHICS AT ARM TECHCON This week ARM® TechCon® 2013 is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from...
By Mark Olen
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Walking in the Desert or Drinking from a Fire Hose?

Walking in the Desert or Drinking from a Fire Hose?

July 26, 2013
You don’t need a graphic like the one below to know that multi-core SoC designs are here to stay.  This one...
By Mark Olen
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Virtual Emulation for Debugging

Virtual Emulation for Debugging

July 27, 2012
A system-level verification engineer once told me that his company consumes over 50% of its emulation capacity debugging failures. According...
By Mark Olen
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Intelligent Testbench Automation - Catching on Fast

Intelligent Testbench Automation - Catching on Fast

June 28, 2012
Graph-Based Intelligent Testbench Automation While intelligent testbench automation is still reasonably new when measured in EDA years, this graph-based verification...
By Mark Olen
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Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

December 14, 2011
Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen...
By Mark Olen
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