While writing “The Ten Commandments for Effective Standards”, I stumbled across the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab. It’s quite an undertaking, and we’re all benefiting from their efforts. I wanted to learn more about what goes on at the InterOperability Lab and if it might pertain to EDA software. Today I had the pleasure of talking with Jon Beckwith and Bob Noseworthy, senior and chief engineers at the Lab. They gave me enough information to write another book, but for now I’ll just summarize our conversation.