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Anant Adke of Siemens EDA Joins Si2 Board of Directors

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Technology, Semiconductor, Telecommunications, Nanotechnology, Software, Internet, Hardware, Electronic Design Automation, Data Management, Silicon Integration Initiative, CEO, IC, EDA, Institute, National Cooperative Research and Production Act, Silicon, University, Technology, Research, University of Michigan, OpenAccess, IIT Bombay, Industry, Mentor Graphics, Multimedia, Defense Production Act of 1950, Solution, Management, Engineering, A. S. Adke, Si2

Anant Adke, vice president of Engineering, Siemens EDA, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors.

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  • Anant Adke, vice president of Engineering, Siemens EDA, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220202005675/en/
    Anant Adke, vice president of Engineering, Siemens EDA, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors.
  • The addition of Anant continues the strong support Siemens EDA has provided Si2 over the years, said John Ellis, Si2 president and CEO.
  • As a longstanding board member, Siemens EDA strongly supports tool interoperability and the value and cost-savings it provides for the industry.

Authors of AI/ML White Paper Win Annual Si2 Power of Partnerships Award

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Technology, Electronic design automation, Semiconductor, Other Technology, Silicon Integration Initiative, Electronic engineering, Technology, Si2, SEMI, Science and technology, Electronic design automation, Automation, Articles, Common Power Format

Authors of a groundbreaking Silicon Integration Initiative white paper identifying a common data model as the most critical need to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning in semiconductor electronic design automation are winners of the 2021 Si2 Power of Partnerships Award.

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  • Authors of a groundbreaking Silicon Integration Initiative white paper identifying a common data model as the most critical need to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning in semiconductor electronic design automation are winners of the 2021 Si2 Power of Partnerships Award.
  • The annual awards recognize the Si2 volunteer team that has made the most significant contributions to EDA innovation and efficiency.
  • Si2 will present the awards at the Si2 Annual Technology Forum , Friday, August 6, 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
  • The white paper also identified a common reference flow, online AI/ML courses and organized training data as industry needs.

Executives from Cadence, SK hynix Join Si2 Board of Directors

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Semiconductor, Electronic design automation, Other Technology, Technology, Software, Semiconductor device fabrication, Technology, Silicon Integration Initiative, Organizations, Industry economics), Synopsys, Semiconductor industry, SEMI, Fabless manufacturing, Si2, Cadence Design Systems, OpenAccess

Silicon Integration Initiative , a leading research and development joint venture providing standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools, announced today the election of its board of directors for 2021-2022.

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  • Silicon Integration Initiative , a leading research and development joint venture providing standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools, announced today 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
    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.

Peter Lee of Micron Tapped for Si2 Pinnacle Award

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Software, Mobile, Wireless, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Data management, Technology, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology, Other Technology, Telecommunications, Silicon Integration Initiative, Si2, Micron Technology, Dynamic random-access memory, Technology, Computing, Science and technology

b'Peter Lee, director of a global team responsible for the DRAM design environment at Micron Technology, will receive the quarterly Silicon Integration Initiative Pinnacle Award.

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  • b'Peter Lee, director of a global team responsible for the DRAM design environment at Micron Technology, will receive the quarterly Silicon Integration Initiative Pinnacle Award.
  • This award recognizes volunteers for their exceptional contributions to Si2\xe2\x80\x99s success as a leading semiconductor R&D joint venture.\nThis press release features multimedia.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210511005032/en/\nPeter Lee, director of a global team responsible for the DRAM design environment at Micron Technology, will receive the quarterly Silicon Integration Initiative Pinnacle Award.
  • This award recognizes volunteers for their exceptional contributions to Si2\xe2\x80\x99s success as a leading semiconductor R&D joint venture.

Ali Sadigh Joins Si2 Technical Team

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Electronic design automation, Semiconductor, Data management, Technology, Software, Hardware, Technology, Computing, Electrical engineering, Silicon Integration Initiative, Electronic engineering, Si2, Interoperability, Computational electromagnetics, Integrated circuit design, Cloud computing, Aveva, Common Power Format

Ali Sadigh, a technical professional with more than 25 years of experience in computational electromagnetics, circuit simulation and industrial data acquisition and management, has joined Silicon Integration Initiative as a principal software design engineer.

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  • Ali Sadigh, a technical professional with more than 25 years of experience in computational electromagnetics, circuit simulation and industrial data acquisition and management, has joined Silicon Integration Initiative as a principal software design engineer.
  • Before joining Si2, Sadigh worked with AVEVA Group as part of the Historian high-performance process database.
  • John Ellis, Si2 president and CEO, said, Dr. Sadigh brings valuable industry experience in design and EDA to the table, and adds critical cloud-based application experience which will help Si2 address interoperability issues for silicon-on-cloud design.
  • Founded in 1988, Si2 is a leading research and development joint venture that provides standard interoperability solutions for integrated circuit design tools.

Aparna Dey of Cadence Joins Si2 Board of Directors

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Monday, February 1, 2021
Technology, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Semiconductor, Silicon Integration Initiative, Technology, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Si2, Cadence Design Systems, Integrated circuit design, Computer file formats, OpenAccess, Common Power Format

Aparna Dey, senior product marketing group director at Cadence Design Systems, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors.

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  • Aparna Dey, senior product marketing group director at Cadence Design Systems, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210201005009/en/
    Aparna Dey, senior product marketing group director at Cadence Design Systems, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors.
  • John Ellis, Si2 president and CEO, said Dey has an "impressive record of achievement in her more than 25 years in the industry that makes her an ideal addition to the Si2 board.
  • I look forward to serving on the Si2 board of directors to foster EDA interoperability and support IC design industry ecosystem growth through standards solutions.

Dr. Leigh Anne Clevenger Named Si2 Director, OpenStandards

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Electronic design automation, Semiconductor, Technology, Software, Research, Science, Hardware, Silicon Integration Initiative, Si2, Clevenger

Silicon Integration Initiative has selected Dr. Leigh Anne Clevenger as director of OpenStandards, effective January 1, 2021.

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  • Silicon Integration Initiative has selected Dr. Leigh Anne Clevenger as director of OpenStandards, effective January 1, 2021.
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    Silicon Integration Initiative has selected Dr. Leigh Anne Clevenger as director of OpenStandards, effective January 1, 2021.
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    Since joining Si2 in 2018, Clevenger has been the lead developer of the Si2 prototype power calculator, demonstrating the UPM/IEEE-2416 standard.
  • With this promotion, Clevenger will continue working directly with Si2 members and industry leaders to identify and solve issues in semiconductor design flow interoperability.

Si2 Announces 2020 Power of Partnerships Award Winners

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Monday, July 6, 2020
Electronic design automation, Engineering, Semiconductor, Technology, Manufacturing, Software, Hardware, Electronic engineering, Electrical engineering, Technology, Silicon Integration Initiative, Digital electronics, Si2, Integrated circuit design, Integrated circuit, UPM, Automation, Common Power Format

Semiconductor design experts from industry and academia are this years winners of the Silicon Integration Initiatives Power of Partnerships Award, recognizing the Si2 team that has made the most significant contributions to the field of electronic design automation.

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  • Semiconductor design experts from industry and academia are this years winners of the Silicon Integration Initiatives Power of Partnerships Award, recognizing the Si2 team that has made the most significant contributions to the field of electronic design automation.
  • Led by Jerry Frenkil, Si2 director of OpenStandards , members of the Unified Power Model Working Group are being honored for developing Si2 UPM, a system-level power modeling standard which helps designers describe, analyze, and control power consumption, critical factors in reducing overall design costs and increasing chip performance.
  • Frenkil said the working group has pioneered new methods for power modeling and analysis, leading to increased power efficiency.
  • Each Si2 coalition nominates one team for the annual Power of Partnerships award, which spotlights the essential role volunteers from Si2 member companies play in Si2s continuing success and value to the industry.

Executives from Siemens, Qualcomm and Samsung Join Si2 Board of Directors

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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Semiconductor, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Technology, Software, Semiconductor device fabrication, Silicon Integration Initiative, Technology, Articles, Electronics, Synopsys, Fabless manufacturing, Mentor Graphics, SEMI, Semiconductor industry, Si2, OpenAccess

Silicon Integration Initiative, a leading research and development joint venture that provides standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools, announced today the election of its 2020-2021 board of directors.

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  • Silicon Integration Initiative, a leading research and development joint venture that provides standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools, announced today the election of its 2020-2021 board of directors.
  • Joining the Si2 board this year are:
    Vic Kulkarni, vice president and chief strategist, Ansys
    David DeMaria, corporate vice president, Strategic Initiatives and Market Intelligence, Synopsys
    Keith Green, distinguished member of the technical staff, Texas Instruments
    The Si2 board represents leading semiconductor manufacturers and foundries, fabless companies and EDA software providers.
  • Founded in 1988, Si2 provides standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools.
  • All Si2 activities are carried out under the auspices of The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, the fundamental law that defines R&D joint ventures and offers them a large measure of protection against federal antitrust laws.

New Version of Si2 oaScript Expands IC Design Capabilities into the Cloud and AI

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Thursday, February 20, 2020
Semiconductor, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Technology, Software, Data management, Software, System software, OpenAccess, Proprietary software, Integrated circuits, Electronic engineering, Silicon Integration Initiative, Integrated circuit design, Disk partitioning, Si2, Partition

Design partitioning and multi-threaded parallel execution are key features of the updated scripting interface to OpenAccess, the industrys most widely used IC design database.

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  • Design partitioning and multi-threaded parallel execution are key features of the updated scripting interface to OpenAccess, the industrys most widely used IC design database.
  • oaScript Version 4.0developed by programming experts in the Silicon Integration Initiative oaScript Working Groupleverages the powerful enhancements available to OpenAccess in its most recent Data Model 6 upgrade.
  • Marshall Tiner, Si2 director of Production Standards, stated, oaScript 4.0 supports the new DM6 design partitioning capability, oaPartitions.
  • oaPartitions allows an application to rapidly load design instances, shapes, or vias from a given partition without loading an entire design.