The newest elected Board member is Charlie Huang, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., who replaces the previous Board representative from Cadence.
The re-elected Board Members and their representatives are: AMD – Ward Vercruysse, director and fellow; ARM, Inc. - John Goodenough, world wide director Design Technology; IBM Microelectronics – Leon Stock, director, EDA; Intel Corporation - Rahul Goyal, director, EDA Business; LSI - Ameesh Desai, senior director, Design Tools & Methodology; National Semiconductor - James Lin, vice president of Technology Infrastructure; NXP – Barry Dennington, sr. vice president; Sequence Design - Vic Kulkarni, president & CEO and Synopsys - John Chilton, sr. vice president, Marketing & Strategic Development.
“I offer a warm welcome to Charlie as our newest elected Board member, and congratulate all returning Board members. We are extremely pleased to have their insight and expertise on the strategic and business affairs of Si2,” said Steve Schulz, president & CEO.
“I am delighted to join the Si2 Board and look forward to taking an active role in this vital organization,” said Huang. “Si2’s ongoing commitment to developing open and inclusive standards in critical areas such as OpenAccess, library modeling and characterization, DFM, and low-power design flows, drives innovation in EDA and benefits the IC industry and the broader electronics ecosystem.”
The Annual Si2 Member/Guest Meeting will be held on July 27, 2009 from 6-8:00 PM in the Moscone Convention Center, Room 220, in San Francisco, CA. Refreshments will be provided, and all members and guests are encouraged to attend. You do not have to be a member to attend the meeting. All attendees please notify Si2 if you are coming at: http://www.si2.org/?page=3.
About Si2
Si2 is an organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on improving the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured in order to speed time-to market, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of sub-micron design. Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable collaboration through a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 focuses on developing practical technology solutions to industry challenges. Si2 represents nearly 100 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world.
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