Accellera Re-Elects Officers, Announces Plans.NAPA, Calif. -- Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on language-based design standards, today announced that its Board has re-elected all its officers at a Board meeting earlier this month. In addition, the organization announced plans for the next year. Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development, Mentor Graphics, was elected Accellera's chair for a fifth term. Shrenik Mehta, director, Frontend Technologies - ASICs & Processors, Sun Microsystems, was elected vice chair for a 3rd term. Dave Kelf, vice president of marketing, Novas Software, was elected treasurer for a second term. Karen Bartleson, director of interoperability, Synopsys, was elected secretary for a fifth term. "Accellera works with our members and the electronics industry to create standards that address design complexity and improve the way designers create and verify circuits and systems," said Dennis Brophy, Accellera chairman. "I am pleased to continue as Accellera's chair to support the development and delivery of critical standards that benefit designers throughout the world as we forge stronger ties with well-respected international organizations like the 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. ." Accellera Corporate member companies include: ARM Ltd., Artisan Components, Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Freescale Semiconductor, 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) , Intel Corp., 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. , Mentor Graphics, National Semiconductor, 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, NVIDIA, Real Intent, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys Inc. and Verisity. Accellera Plans In the next year, Accellera plans to continue to work with and strengthen its relationship with the IEEE Standards Association The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is a leading developer of global industry standards in a broad-range of industries, including:
For a list of Accellera-supported technical activities, please visit http://www.accellera.org/subcom.html. About Accellera Accellera provides design standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. standards that lower the cost of designing commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are provided to the IEEE standards body for formalization and ongoing change control. For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org.
Acronyms
EDA - Electronic Design Automation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
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