Synfora Forms 'Dream Team' Technical Advisory Board.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Synfora introduced the members of its newly formed Technical Advisory Board (TAB): Dr. Edward H. Frank of Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM BRCM Broadcom Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) BRCM Master Chief Boilermaker (USN rating) ); Dr. Wen-mei W. Hwu of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Dr. Vinod Kathail, Synfora's CTO said, "We are pleased to be able to tap into the experience of these academic and industrial luminaries. Understanding leading-edge user requirements and where current research is going will be critical to us being able to offer the best solution to the design community." "I'm pleased to advise Synfora through the TAB," said Dr. Frank, vice-president of Research and Development at Broadcom. "The ever-increasing complexity of chip designs has created a compelling need for higher level tools." Said Dr. Hwu, Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific , "Higher-level synthesis has been a major research topic for many years. There are great opportunities for this field to benefit from advanced compilation techniques in the coming decade. I'm delighted to provide input and guidance to a company that is at the forefront of this innovation." "PICO Pico (pē`kō) [Port.,=peak], island (1991 pop. 15,129), 167 sq mi (433 sq km), Horta dist., in the N Atlantic, one of the central Azores. It takes its name from the volcanic mountain, Pico Alto [high peak], which rises to 7,711 ft (2,350 m). technology has a solid foundation, and creating efficient hardware from a sequential, un-timed algorithm is going to be critical as design complexity increases and time to market demands remain constant or increase," said Dr. Malik, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756. . "I'm pleased to contribute as an advisory board member to Synfora's plans for the future." Synfora president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Simon Napper, said, "We have a vision of enabling designers to rapidly create complex hardware using a sequential programming model. PICO technology is based on world-class research and technology development. The addition of such a high-powered TAB will empower us to further focus on developments that address complex industry needs such as low cost, lowest power, and highest performance." About Dr. Edward H. Frank Edward H. Frank, Ph.D., is the vice-president of Research and Development at Broadcom. Dr. Frank is responsible for ensuring that Broadcom's engineering teams use state-of-the-art architectures and development methodologies. He works closely with the company's business units in creating product strategies and roadmaps, and in communicating Broadcom's technical and product vision to its customers. Among his significant contributions to Broadcom is his leadership in the development of the company's 802.11 products. Dr. Frank joined Broadcom as senior director of engineering of Home and Wireless Networking in May 1999, following Broadcom's acquisition of Epigram, Inc., of which he was a co-founder and where he was vice-president of Research and Development from 1996 to 1999. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Frank was vice-president of engineering for computer workstation maker NeTpower, Inc., which he co-founded. From 1988 to 1993, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he co-architected several generations of Sun SPARCstations and was a principal member of Sun's Green Project, which developed the precursor to the Java cross-platform web programming language. Dr. Frank received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . Dr. Frank is a named inventor in 37 U.S. patents and is a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University. About Dr. Wen-mei W. Hwu Dr. Wen-mei W. Hwu is the Sanders-AMD-Endowed Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest is the architecture, implementation, and software for high-performance computer systems. Dr. Hwu is the director of the University's IMPACT lab, which, since 1987, has delivered new compiler and computer architecture technologies to the computer industry. For his contributions to the areas of compiler optimization and computer architecture, he received the Eta Kappa Nu Eta Kappa Nu (ΗΚΝ) is a national electrical and computer engineering honor society in the United States founded in October 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award; the Xerox Award for Faculty Research; the University Scholar Award of the University of Illinois; the Eta Kappa Nu Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award; the ACM-Sig-Arch Maurice Wilkes Award; the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award Although many awards have added Grace Hopper's name to them since her death in 1992, the original Grace Murray Hopper Awards have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. ; and the Tau Beta Pi This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award. Dr. Hwu is a Fellow of 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. and the ACM. He serves on the Executive Committee of the MARCO/DCARPA C2S2 and GSRC GSRC Gigascale Silicon Research Center GSRC Georgia Society for Respiratory Care GSRC Graduate Studies Research Center Focus Research Centers, and on the GELATO ge·la·to n. pl. ge·la·ti An Italian ice cream or ice. [Italian, from past participle of gelare, to freeze; see gelatin.] Strategy Council. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . About Dr. Sharad Malik Dr. Malik is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. His research spans all aspects of electronic design automation (EDA), with a current focus on synthesis and verification of digital systems and embedded computer systems. Dr. Malik has received the President of India's Gold Medal for academic excellence; the IBM Faculty Development Award; an NSF Research Initiation Award; a Princeton University Rheinstein Faculty Award; and the NSF Young Investigator Award. He has also received the Walter C. Johnson Prize for Teaching Excellence and the Princeton University Engineering Council Excellence Teaching Award. Dr. Malik received Best Paper awards for papers presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ), and the ACM/IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe Design Automation and Test in Europe, or DATE is a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation. It is typically held in March or April of each year, alternating between France and Germany. (DATE). Dr. Malik has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Signal Processing, Design Automation for Embedded Systems, and IEEE Design and Test. He is an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, and the editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation. The author of numerous papers and book chapters, Dr. Malik is the author of the book, Static Timing Analysis for Embedded Software. He is a fellow of the IEEE, and currently serves as the associate director of the MARCO/DARPA Gigascale Systems Research Center, a multi-university effort to define and develop system design methodology with a ten-year horizon. Dr. Malik received a B. Tech. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. About Synfora Founded in 2003, Synfora, Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. is the leading provider of application engine synthesis (AES) software used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synfora's technology helps to reduce fixed design costs and dramatically speed chip development and time-to-market. Synfora targets companies in the audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security segments of the IC design market. The company's investors are ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment Ventures, Foundation Capital, and U.S. Venture Partners. For the latest news and information on Synfora, visit www.synfora.com. Synfora and the Synfora logo are trademarks of Synfora, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective companies. |
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