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John M. Ludden - IBM Systems and Technology Group
Simultaneous Multi-Threading Verification of the POWER5 and POWER6 High-Performance Processors.

Bio

• John Ludden is a senior technical staff member at IBM where he has over 18 years of experience in design verification spanning mainframes, x86 and PowerPC processor based systems.
• He has been the architecture verification lead engineer for IBM's POWER3/4/5/6 processors and is a member of IBM's Verification Advisory Team.
• For the past 14 years, John has worked with IBM's test generation research team in Haifa, Israel to improve instruction-level test generation capabilities in order to address out-of-order execution, symmetric multi-processing and simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) processor verification requirements.
• John received a Corporate Award from IBM for his leadership in defining and executing the POWER5 SMT verification plan. He has co-authored three papers and currently holds two patents in microprocessor verification.
• John received his BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York in 1990.