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Don Mills, founder of LCDM-Engineering, is an engineer and independent contractor with over 17 years of ASIC, mixed signal and system design experience and for the last four years has been a certified instructor of Verilog and Verilog Synthesis courses for Sunburst Design, Inc. Mr. Mills has employed top-down design methodology for over nine years, and is proficient in both Verilog and VHDL.

Mr. Mills has developed and implemented top-down ASIC design flows for a number of companies. His specialty is integrating tools to automate design flows. Through his work in developing and integrating top-down design flows, he has developed and taught a number of methodology classes, which include ASIC design flow, Verilog, VHDL, Synopsys synthesis, DFT, BSD (1149.1), and makefile automation.

Mr. Mills has served as Technical Chair for seven Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) Conferences since 1998. He is currently serving as Technical Chair for the SNUG Conference 2003 Europe, hosted in Munich, Germany. Mr. Mills has authored and co-authored five papers which have been presented at past SNUG Conferences.

Mr. Mills is a member of the IEEE 1364 Verilog Standards Committee, and participates on the Accellera System Verilog Basic Committee and the System Verilog Enhancements Committee.

Mr. Mills holds a BSEE from Brigham Young University.

Note from Cliff Cummings - Don Mills is one of the most recognized names in the Synopsys design community. Don chaired San Jose SNUG just prior to Tim Wilson and has also chaired Boston-SNUG and Germany-SNUG. Don is a great teacher with an excellent design background. I often send Don to teach the tough classes where engineers are transitioning from VHDL to Verilog, because he is proficient in both languages and can answer the tough VHDL-related questions too. Don is often requested by companies that had him for previous Sunburst Design training courses - the sign of a great instructor.