Press Release

Accellera Elects New Officers
Dennis Brophy Continues as Chair, Shrenik Mehta Elected Vice Chair

NAPA, Calif. - October 15, 2002—Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on language-based design standards, today announced that its Board members-- systems, semiconductor and design tool companies-- have elected officers at their meeting last month.

Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development at Model Technology, a Mentor Graphics company, was elected Accellera's chair for a third term. Shrenik Mehta, senior engineering manager, Sun Microsystems, was elected vice chair. Steve Wang, vice president and co-founder, Axis Systems, was elected treasurer. Karen Bartleson, director of quality and interoperability, Synopsys, was re-elected secretary for a third term.

Accellera's efforts are the basis for improving the way designers will design circuits and systems in the 21st century, and I am proud to be re-elected chair of an electronics industry organization with momentum and a proven design standards approach, said Dennis Brophy.

Shrenik Mehta, vice chair of Accellera added, "Sun is a founding member of Accellera, and as design automation tool users, we are the beneficiaries of Accellera's design standards efforts. I would like to encourage other users and corporations to join the organization and contribute to our standards efforts.

Accellera Corporate members include: Antrim Design Systems, Axis Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Motorola, NEC, Novas Software, Real Intent, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, TransEDA, Verisity Design and Verplex Systems. Accellera's Associate members include: 0-In Design Automation, Forte, FTL Systems, Galileo - a Marvell Company, IBM, IKOS, Intel Corp., the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association, Magma Design Automation, Sequence Design and ST Microelectronics.

About Accellera
Accellera is an electronics industry organization that drives the worldwide development and use of standards required by systems, semiconductor and design tool companies that enhance a language-based design automation process. This includes support of technical groups involved with developing standards for IEEE 1364 (Verilog HDL) and IEEE 1076 (VHDL). For more information, please visit www.accellera.org. For a list of Accellera-supported activities, visit http://www.accellera.org/actitivites

Notes to editors
Pictures are available on request.
Acronyms:
EDA - Electronic Design Automation
HDL - Hardware Description Language
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE 1076- IEEE VHDL standard
IEEE 1364 - IEEE Verilog HDL standard
VHDL - VHSIC (Very High-Speed IC) HDL
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