About Grant Martin
Grant Martin is a Chief Scientist at Tensilica, Inc. in Santa Clara, California. Before that, Grant worked for Burroughs in Scotland for 6 years; Nortel/BNR in Canada for 10 years; and Cadence Design Systems for 9 years, eventually becoming a Cadence Fellow in their Labs. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics (Combinatorics and Optimisation) from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1977 and 1978.
Grant is a co-author or co-editor of nine books dealing with SoC design, SystemC, UML, modelling, EDA for integrated circuits and system-level design, including the first book on SoC design published in Russian. His most recent book, “ESL Design and Verification”, written with Brian Bailey and Andrew Piziali, was published by Elsevier Morgan Kaufmann in February, 2007.
He was co-chair of the DAC Technical Programme Committee for Methods for 2005 and 2006. His particular areas of interest include system-level design, IP-based design of system-on-chip, platform-based design, and embedded software. Grant is a Senior Member of the IEEE.