March 26, 2026 -
By Max Maxfield, EEJournal
There are many ways to categorize engineers—to “slice and dice” them, if you will. I’m speaking figuratively, of course (we don’t want anyone to get any unfortunate ideas…especially since… the incident). Just sticking to the electronics realm, we have analog and digital, hardware and software, those who simulate and those who solder, those who document and those who don’t—and the French.
As you may recall, I’m a hardware design engineer by trade. The reason I mention this here (in addition to the fact that I just like hearing myself say it) is that design engineers and verification engineers are like two sides of the same coin. Design engineers spend a lot of time and effort creating interesting and unexpected bugs, while verification engineers get all the fun of finding and fixing them.