The ESD Alliance recently finished elections for our new slate of Governing Council members and I’m pleased to welcome back nine members along with newly elected member Aki Fujimura, D2S’ CEO. Our Governing Council Chair is Simon Segars, CEO of Arm, who has served in that role since 2019.

Returning Governing Council members who will serve a two-year term that runs through 2023:

• Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys, Inc.
• Dean Drako, president and CEO at IC Manage
• John Kibarian, president and CEO of PDF Solutions, Inc.
• Prakash Narain, president and CEO from Real Intent
• Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of Siemens EDA
• Simon Segars
• Babak Taheri, CEO/CTO of Silvaco
• Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Cadence Design Systems
• Bob Smith, executive director of the ESD Alliance

As our new term gets under way, I commend the Governing Council for its accomplishments from the last term. With this kind of momentum, I expect we will accomplish even more the new term.

A big thank you to our member companies. The current slate of Governing Council members was elected by more than 90% of eligible members companies casting ballots during the voting period that ended May 14.

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If you had trouble settling into working from home last year, you are not alone. Now try to imagine how our engineering community managed a collective set of challenges as they attempted complex chip innovation from their home offices. Yes, I know –– daunting.

And so, I invite you to attend a panel that shines a light on the chip design and verification project upheaval caused by the pandemic. Set aside an hour Wednesday, June 9, to join us for a lesson on overcoming the perils of chip design at home. It will be populated by chip design and verification engineers accustomed to robust software and hardware resources readily available at their physical office.

This panel is co-hosted by two stalwarts of the electronic system design ecosystem –– the ESD Alliance and Accellera, a long-overdue industry first that I expect will not be the last. The ESD Alliance and SEMI, where we are a Technology Community, welcome the partnership.

As our panelists will attest, work from home, WFH, remote work or whatever you call this last year changed our routines and our lives, possibly forever. Design and verification didn’t stop even though our panelists had to work through hits to their complicated flows and project cycles due to VPN tool and system access, Zoom-based collaboration and everyday home interruptions.

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A final reminder about our CEO Outlook next Tuesday, May 18, from 2-3pm PDT.

Ed Sperling, Editor-in-Chief of Semiconductor Engineering, will moderate the conversation featuring plenty of insights on the state of the Electronic System Design industry from: Simon Segars of Arm; Lip-Bu Tan from Cadence; Dean Drako at IC Manage; John Kibarian at PDF Solutions; Real Intent’s Prakash Narain; Joseph Sawicki of Siemens EDA; Silvaco’s Babak Taheri; and Aart de Geus from Synopsys.

Please join us. Registration is free for members. Pricing for non-members is $35. To register, go to: https://bit.ly/2QkE32V.

To learn more about the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, and our programs,  initiatives and upcoming events, visit the ESD Alliance website or contact me at bsmith@semi.org.

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