Gordon RussellGordon Russell has been on the academic staff of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne since 1979, where he has been involved in teaching and research into CAD tools for VLSI circuit design ad design for testability techniques. He has also been involved in a number of SERC and DTI funded research projects in these areas. Before joining Newcastle University he spent five years at Edinburgh University, involved in a range of CAD activities, first in the Department of Computer Science, then in the Department of Electrical Engineering and finally in the Wolfson Microelectronics Institute. He is coauthor/coeditor of five books related to testing and other aspects of CAD for VLSI and has given a number of invited lectures at universities throughout Europe on the application of expert systems to test pattern generation and design for testability. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IEE and IEEE. He received his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Strathclyde. Read More Read Less