Accellera Elects New Officers; Dennis Brophy Continues as Chair, Shrenik Mehta Elected Vice Chair.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAPA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2002 Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on language-based design standards, today announced that its Board members -- systems, semiconductor and design tool companies -- have elected officers at their meeting last month. Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development at Model Technology, a Mentor Graphics company, was elected Accellera's chair for a third term. Shrenik Mehta, senior engineering manager, Sun Microsystems, was elected vice chair. Steve Wang, vice president and co-founder, Axis Systems, was elected treasurer. Karen Bartleson, director of quality and interoperability, Synopsys, was re-elected secretary for a third term. "Accellera's efforts are the basis for improving the way designers will design circuits and systems in the 21st century, and I am proud to be re-elected chair of an electronics industry organization with momentum and a proven design standards approach," said Dennis Brophy. Shrenik Mehta, vice chair of Accellera added, "Sun is a founding member of Accellera, and as design automation tool users, we are the beneficiaries of Accellera's design standards efforts. I would like to encourage other users and corporations to join the organization and contribute to our standards efforts." Accellera Corporate members include: Antrim Design Systems, Axis Systems, Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Mentor Graphics, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novas Software, Real Intent, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, TransEDA, Verisity Design and Verplex Systems. Accellera's Associate members include: 0-In Design Automation, Forte, FTL (Flash Translation Layer) See flash memory. Systems, Galileo - a Marvell Company, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , IKOS, Intel Corp., the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association, Magma Design Automation Magma Design Automation (NASDAQ: LAVA) is a software company in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. The company was founded in 1997 and maintains headquarters in San Jose, California. , Sequence Design and ST Microelectronics. About Accellera Accellera is an electronics industry organization that drives the worldwide development and use of standards required by systems, semiconductor and design tool companies that enhance a language-based design automation process. This includes support of technical groups involved with developing standards for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1364 (Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. ) and IEEE 1076 (VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. ). For more information, please visit www.accellera.org. For a list of Accellera-supported activities, visit http://www.accellera.org/subcom.html. Notes to editors Pictures are available on request. Acronyms: EDA Electronic Design Automation HDL Hardware Description Language IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE 1076 IEEE VHDL standard IEEE 1364 IEEE Verilog HDL standard VHDL VHSIC (Very High-Speed IC) HDL Accellera acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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