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Company Profile

Mr. Mills is a senior hardware design engineer with over 20 years of experience. During this time he has worked on numerous ASICs including CMOS devices, ECL devices (137 MHz and 274 MHz), and a high voltage (15 volt) mixed analog/digital device. Mr. Mills has employed top-down design methodology for over 12 years and is proficient in Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL.

Mr. Mills has developed and implemented top-down ASIC design flows for a number of companies. His specialty is design tool integration and design tool flow automation. Through his work in developing and integrating top-down design flows, he has taught a number of methodology classes, which include ASIC design flow, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, Synopsys synthesis, DFT, BSD (1149.1), and makefile automation. Mr. Mills is a certified instructor of Verilog and SystemVerilog courses for Sutherland HDL, Inc., and Sunburst Design, Inc..

Mr. Mills has served as Technical Chair for many SNUG Conferences (Synopsys Users Group). Please refer to Resume for a detailed listing of the conferences.

Mr. Mills has authored and co-authored several papers. Please refer to Papers for a complete listing of titles, and links to the full text.

Mr. Mills has worked for L3 Communications, US Robotics, Honeywell, Microchip, and a number of other companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, and is a member of IEEE.