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News Release from: AMI Semiconductor
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Team on 14 November 2002
EDA guru Rincon takes up fellowship
Ann Rincon, the 2002 EDA Woman of the Year, has joined AMI Semiconductor as engineering fellow.
Ann Rincon, the 2002 EDA Woman of the Year, has joined AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) as engineering fellow Rincon joins the product development staff of AMIS as an expert in design methodology and will work closely with the product development groups at AMIS on design-flow methodologies to continuously decrease development costs and improve overall time to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As this year's winner of the Marie R Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award, Rincon was recognised for her exceptional leadership skills and serving as a role model for women in EDA through her involvement in key IBM initiatives and as an active speaker, author and industry expert.
Rincon's professional contributions at conferences and on technical committees have helped pave the way for women in the EDA industry.
She received the award during the Workshop for Women in Design Automation at the 2002 Design Automation Conference in New Orleans.
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"I worked closely with Ann during my years at IBM", said Christine King, President and CEO of AMIS.
"Her creativity and innovation gave her the reputation as a change agent and one who always went above and beyond what was expected.
Throughout the design community, she is recognised as a worldwide expert on ASIC design methodology".
"Joining Chris King's team at AMIS is a great honour for me", said Rincon.
"I'm very excited to be part of her vision for the new AMIS.
Under King's leadership and the rest of her executive team in the United States, Europe and Asia, AMIS is becoming a formidable global ASIC company".
Rincon holds multiple patents and recently led a corporate-wide task force at IBM to recommend ways to improve turnaround time for ASIC designs.
Her technical expertise and accomplishments are demonstrated in her leadership of IBM's initiative to define an ASIC OEM design methodology for high-density, high-performance ASICs.
This methodology was the key differentiator that allowed IBM to go from zero percent of the OEM ASIC market in 1992 to the number one ASIC supplier in the world in 1999.
Rincon developed the "right-first-time" design sign-off criteria that have been used on every IBM ASIC processed since 1993.
She also led the team that architected IBM's system-on-chip (SoC) design methodology.
This methodology produced the industry's first highly integrated SoC design and established world leadership for IBM in this marketplace.
Rincon defined IBM's first workstation-based technology checks for use by designers, resulting in the CMOSChecks software now included with every IBM ASIC design kit.
In October 2001, Rincon was also elected to the IBM Academy of Technology, a self-governing group of 300 technologists that advises IBM management on broad, strategic technical issues.
Rincon is frequently sought after to speak on design methods for large ASICs.
The paper she presented at CICC on IBM's one-million-gate design methodology led to her authoring a 10,000-word section on logic arrays for the prestigious Wiley "Encyclopedia of electrical and electronics engineering".
Rincon has filed nine patents for inventions in areas including: "Methods for IP core protection in ASIC designs", "Applications for embedded FPGA macros in ASIC designs" and "Business applications for network processors".
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