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Accellera Appoints Karen Pieper as Technical Committee Chair
Accellera Appoints Karen Pieper as Technical Committee Chair
Ability to Drive Development of Multiple Electronic Design Standards Through Both Accellera and IEEE Processes Key to Organization's Success
Accellera, the electronics
industry organization focused on Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
standards, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed the
former vice chair of its Technical Committee, Karen Pieper, as its new Technical Committee (TC)
Chair. Karen succeeds Johny Srouji, who has served as the organization's TC
Chair since June 2005. The TC Chair is responsible for overseeing all
technical standards development work by Accellera's Technical Subcommittees
(TSCs) and providing liaison to the Accellera Board.
Accellera's TSCs produce
effective and efficient standards for today's advanced IC designs.
Participation comes from Accellera member companies and independent
industry contributors. Technical contributors typically have many years of
practical experience with IC design and developing and using design
automation tools.
"Accellera is very proud of the achievements and excellence of its
Technical Committee chairs," said Shrenik Mehta, Accellera Chair. "Karen
Pieper has the valuable experience and the leadership abilities to drive
the development of multiple standards through both the Accellera and IEEE
processes."
"Accellera has proved itself to be an invaluable organization for improving
the electronic design industry, and I am pleased to be leading the
technical subcommittees that are major contributors to the continued
success and adoption of Accellera's electronic design standards," added
Karen Pieper.
Karen Pieper is currently Director of Synthesis at Tabula, and was formerly
Director of Synthesis at Synopsys. She is currently serving as the Chair of
the IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog Working Group, an Accellera-sponsored committee
and has served as Accellera's TC Co-Chair and Co-Chair of Accellera's
SystemVerilog-Basic Committee (SV-BC), the committee responsible for IEEE
1364 comments and basic extensions. In 2005, along with Johny Srouji, Karen
was a recipient of Accellera's Technical Excellence Award. The Award
recognizes major contributions to the development of Accellera's standards
by Accellera's technical committee members. Award information is located at
www.accellera.org/award.html.
Karen has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Rice University, and
a PhD. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Accellera's Technical Subcommittees
Accellera's current Technical
Subcommittees include: Interface (ITC), Open Compression Interface
(OCI), Open Verification Language (OVL), Property Specification Standard
(PSL), SystemVerilog, Unified Coverage Interoperability (UCI), Unified
Power Format (UPF), Verilog Analog/Mixed-Signal (Verilog-AMS), Verification
Intellectual Property and VHDL. More information is at www.accellera.org.
About Accellera's Electronic Design Standards
Accellera has transferred its completed standards work to the IEEE and
continues to use this strategy as part of the roadmap for all of its
standards.
To date, seven Accellera EDA standards have been ratified by the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) -- Hardware Description
Language (HDL) standards, Verilog or IEEE 1364, VHDL or IEEE1076, Property
Specification Language (PSL) or IEEE 1850 and SystemVerilog or IEEE 1800;
Standard Delay Format (SDF) or IEEE 1497; Delay and Power Calculation
System (DPCS) or IEEE 1481 and Advanced Library Format (ALF) or IEEE 1603.
In addition, two standards are active in IEEE working groups, Open
Compression Interface (OCI) or IEEE 1718, and Unified Power Format (UPF) or
IEEE P1801. Accellera's most recent advanced design and verification
language standards include the SystemVerilog and the Property Specification
Language (PSL) standards.
About Accellera
Accellera provides design and
verification standards for quick availability and use in the electronics
industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver
much-needed EDA standards that lower the cost of designing commercial IC
and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE,
Accellera standards are provided to the IEEE standards body for
formalization and ongoing change control.
For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org.
Notes to editors:
A photo of Karen Pieper is available on request.
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