The semiconductor design ecosystem came out in force Thursday, April 6, for the CEO Outlook at Synopsys in Mountain View, Calif. It was a great crowd and an exceptional panel moderated by Semiconductor Engineering’s Ed Sperling. Thanks to Lip-Bu Tan of Cadence, Wally Rhines from Mentor, ARM’s Simon Segars and Aart de Geus at Synopsys for their insights and a lively discussion.

Our special guests that night were from the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, part of the National Defense University (NDU). The ESD Alliance hosts a yearly visit from the NDU students and organizes meetings with noted semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley to help educate them about our industry and its importance to the global electronics industry.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll dispense with a long blog and let the photos tell the story.

If you’re craving words to describe the evening, Peggy Aycinena wrote a blog filled with color and loads of details on EDACafe. It can be found at: http://bit.ly/2kjVajD

From left to right: ESD Alliance Board Chair Grant Pierce of Sonics, the ESD Alliance’s Julie Rogers, Wally Rhines, Aart de Geus, Paul Cohen of the ESD Alliance and Larry Disenhof of Cadence.

Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering (at left) with panel members and ESD Alliance Board Member (from left to right) Lip-Bu Tan of Cadence, Wally Rhines from Mentor Graphics, ARM’s Simon Segars and Aart de Geus of Synopsys.