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My name is Bill Moore. I received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and have enjoyed a thirty year career in IC design and verification, working for or with over a dozen companies. I am currently a Design Verification Engineering consultant. A compulsive lifelong learner, I have a passion for finding creative solutions to technical problems, and a gift for helping teams and individuals communicate more effectively. I live in San Jose, California–the “Capital of Silicon Valley”–with my wife and son.

In 2022 I was researching possible solutions to widespread nagging problems with documentation in IC projects, such as:

  • Static and stale documentation
  • Documentation that’s asynchronous with implementation
  • Documentation and source code created and maintained on separate systems
  • Rich formatting that makes automation and reuse difficult
  • Technical language barriers between writers and readers from different disciplines

I discovered living documentation and BDD and was intrigued and also a little jealous because as a SystemVerilog enthusiast, I felt left out. So I ported Gherkin to SystemVerilog at my previous employer, Everactive, and got it working on a limited experimental basis on our current project at that time. I don’t work there anymore but before I left, they were gracious enough to release Bathtub as open-source software so I could continue to develop it and share it with the design verification community. I published a paper on Bathtub called “Gherkin Implementation in SystemVerilog Brings Agile Behavior-Driven Development to UVM” (slides) and presented it at DVCon U.S. 2024, the premier conference for IC design and verification professionals, and to my joy it won the third place Stuart Sutherland Best Paper award!

I have tons of plans for this tool and I’m excited to be on this adventure.

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Bathtub home page: https://BathtubBDD.dev

Please Note–The views and opinions expressed by me in these pages and the underlying GitHub repository are mine alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of my employers, clients, partners, or vendors–past, current, or future–or any other organizations which with I am affiliated. Bathtub was begun at Everactive, but currently it is a personal project I work on on my own time.