Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2), a leading research and development joint venture providing standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools, announces the election of its board of directors for 2021-2022. Joining the Si2 board for their first full terms are Aparna Dey, Senior Product Marketing Group Director, Cadence Design Systems, and Do Chang-Ho, Vice President, Computer Aided Engineering Division, SK Hynix.
Re-elected board members are:
- Richard Trihy, vice president, Design Enablement, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
- Roger Carpenter, hardware engineer, Google
- Leon Stok, vice president, Electronic Design Automation Technologies, IBM
- Rahul Goyal, vice president, Intel Corp., director, R&D Strategic Enablement
- Pankaj Kukkal, vice president, EDA, Emulation and Post-Silicon Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies
- Jung Yun Choi, corporate vice president, Electronics Design Technology, Samsung Electronics
- Juan C. Rey, vice president of engineering, Calibre, Siemens EDA
- David DeMaria, corporate vice president, Strategic Initiatives and Market Intelligence, Synopsys
- Keith Green, distinguished member of the technical staff, Texas Instruments
The board elected prior board member, John Lee, general manager and vice-president, Ansys, as an ex-officio board member. Lee will advise the board with regards to Si2’s long-term strategy for design-in-the-cloud, as well as for artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled design.
The Si2 board represents leading semiconductor manufacturers and foundries, fabless companies, and EDA software providers. Si2’s key programs include OpenAccess, a standard application programming interface and reference source code for the design database used by all major chip design software suppliers, and the Compact Model Coalition, which selects and supports industry-standard SPICE simulation models.
