Accellera Announces Call for Nominations for Its Technical Excellence Award Honoring Contributions To Its Design Automation Standards Efforts

Nominations are due April 30, 2005

 

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 6, 2005-- Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on electronic design automation (EDA) standards (based in Napa, CA, USA), announced today its Call for Nominations for its 2nd annual Technical Excellence Award. Nominations are requested by April 30, 2005 . The Award will be presented during the organization’s open Member meeting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 15, 2005 at the Anaheim Convention Center .

"Our electronic design standards achievements are the products of all the individuals who participate in our technical groups,” remarked Dennis Brophy, Chairman of Accellera. "We look forward to recognizing outstanding individuals who have helped us create electronic design standards that benefit our industry.”

 

Accellera’s Technical Subcommittees produce effective and efficient standards for today’s advanced semiconductor designs. Participation comes from Accellera member companies, industry contributors and independents. Technical contributors typically have many years of practical experience developing and using design automation tools.

 

About the Award and Accellera’s Technical Subcommittees

Accellera’s Technical Excellence Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of its technical committee members. The organization will select a single contributor to the Accellera standards development process as its 2005 recipient. All Accellera Technical Subcommittee members are eligible for the award. A nomination form and more information are at www.accellera.org

Accellera's Technical Subcommittees include Formal Verification, Interface, Rosetta, SystemVerilog, Open Verification Library (OVL), Verilog AMS and the OpenKit Initiative. For information about Accellera’s Technical Subcommittees, please visit, www.accellera.org.

 

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 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.

 

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