NAPA, CA — Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on language-based design standards, has announced that its Board has re-elected all its officers at a Board meeting earlier this month. In addition, the organization announced plans for the next year.
 Clockwise from top left: Dennis Brophy, Shrenik Mehta, Karen Bartleson and Dave Kelf |
Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development at Mentor Graphics, was elected Accellera's chair for a fifth term. Shrenik Mehta, director of Frontend Technologies - ASICs & Processors at Sun Microsystems, was elected vice chair for a third term. Dave Kelf, vice president of marketing at Novas Software, was elected treasurer for a second term. Karen Bartleson, director of interoperability at Synopsys, was elected secretary for a fifth term.
"Accellera works with our members and the electronics industry to create standards that address design complexity and improve the way designers create and verify circuits and systems," said Brophy. "I am pleased to continue as Accellera's chair to support the development and delivery of critical standards that benefit designers throughout the world as we forge stronger ties with well-respected international organizations like the IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers]."
Accellera Corporate member companies include: ARM Ltd., Artisan Components, Cadence Design Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Intel, Magma Design Automation, Mentor Graphics, National Semiconductor, NEC, Novas Software, NVIDIA, Real Intent, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, and Verisity.
In the next year, Accellera plans to continue to work with and strengthen its relationship with the IEEE Standards Association and focus on standardization activities that include Accellera's Open Kit & Harmonization standards and Accellera's Verilog Analog/Mixed Signal (Verilog-AMS) design language standard.
