Design Technology Council Elects New Chairman.Business Editors & High Tech Writers LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 The Design Technology Council (DTC DTC See: Depository Transfer Check DTC See: Depository Trust Company DTC See Depository Trust Company (DTC). ), a group of leading semiconductor and systems design companies, announced today that Greg Spirakis, vice president architecture group and director of design technology at Intel, was elected as its new chairman. The DTC is comprised of representatives from Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, 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) Corporation, Intel, Lucent Technologies, 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. Corporation, Philips Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments. Spirakis' term as chairman runs from June 2001 - June 2002. As chairman of the DTC, Spirakis has assumed the responsibility of overseeing the strategic direction of the council. "Our two main priorities are focused on tool interoperability via the OpenAccess community efforts and on 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. vendor quality," said Spirakis. "We are working hard to expand the level of participation by companies in the DTC, and I believe that this will position us to more strongly influence change in the industry." At Intel, Spirakis is responsible for developing the computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive technologies used to design architecture microprocessors. He joined Intel in 1982 as an EPROM EPROM in full erasable programmable read-only memory Form of computer memory that does not lose its content when the power supply is cut off and that can be erased and reused. reliability engineer and has since held a variety of technical and management roles, including positions as yield manager, design manager and Q & R manager. He has received three Intel Achievement Awards. Spirakis holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . About the DTC The Design Technology Council (DTC) is a group of semiconductor and system design companies, which acts as a voice of the EDA customer base to promote strategic solutions through the identification of gaps between projected EDA capabilities and the future needs of the semiconductor and system design community. The DTC is an industry organization, which operates under the auspices of Si2. About Si2 Silicon Integration Initiative “Si2” redirects here. For other uses, see Si2 (disambiguation). Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is a non-profit consortium of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA, and manufacturing companies, focused on improving the way integrated circuits are , Inc. (Si2) provides engineering consultation and services to industry-leading silicon, electronic systems and EDA companies for synergistic, multi-company efforts focused on improving productivity and costs in the design and production of integrated silicon systems. The organization represents members throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Si2, visit www.si2.org. |
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