Thorsten Grotker was born in 1965 in Monchengladbach, Germany. He received a diploma and doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Aachen University of Technology. Thorsten joined Synopsys in 1997, working in the areas of system level design and hardware verification. Ulli Holtmann was born in 1964 in Hildesheim, Germany. He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig and received his doctorate in 1995. He joined Synopsys in 1995 as an R&D engineer. From 1995-2000, he worked at the U.S. headquarters in Mountain View, and since then in Herzogenrath, Germany. Holge...