Major EDA Users Take the Driver’s Seat
The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) has just announced the formation of the Design Technology Committee (DTC), which will identify emerging design challenges and EDA capability gaps of common interest among EDA users including use models and EDA tool interoperability, standards for EDA model communication and interoperability, and best practices and business models for EDA tool access design flows. The DTC will identify future EDA needs of the system and semiconductor communities by delivering a consensus viewpoint from major EDA users. Founding DTC members include:
- Clive Bittlestone, Texas Instruments Fellow and Architecture Manager
- David Crohn, Senior Engineering Director at Broadcom Corporation
- Martin Foltin, Systems VLSI Lab of HP
- Rahul Goyal, Director of EDA Business at Intel
- Thomas Harms, Director of EDA Alliance Management from Infineon Technologies (Vice Chair)
- Uday Kapoor, Director of Corporate CAD at Sun Microsystems
- Jan-Olof Kismalm, Director of Microelectronics Strategy from Ericsson AB
- Sudhakar Sabada, Vice President of Design Engineering and Technology at LSI Logic
- Leon Stok, Vice President of EDA at IBM Corporation (Chair)
- Ward Vercruysse, Director and CAD/AMD Fellow of Silicon Design Engineering at AMD
- Indavong Vongsavady, CAD Director from ST microelectronics
The DTC also plans to coordinate closely with existing standards development organizations, such as Accellera, the IEEE DA Standards Committee, and the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2).
Nominations for new members are actively being solicited. For more information, contact Thomas Harms, the Design Technology Committee Vice Chair (Thomas.Harms@infineon.com).
