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News Release from: Synopsys
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 July 2006
Advisory board kicks off Liberty
standard at DAC
Synopsys and the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) have named the founding members of the Liberty standard technical advisory board (TAB).
Synopsys and the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) have named ARM, Infineon Technologies, Sequence Design, Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC), STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, Texas Instruments and Virage Logic as the founding members of the Liberty standard technical advisory board (TAB) For the first two years, STMicroelectronics will serve as the TAB Vice-Chair
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Given the significant industry-wide momentum behind CCS modelling technology, this Liberty TAB was created to enable representatives from the design community, electronic design automation (EDA) companies, silicon foundries, and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) companies to guide the evolution of the Liberty standard.
"We have found broad support across the semiconductor industry for the Liberty format TAB initiative", said Steve Schulz, President and CEO of the Silicon Integration Initiative.
"We want to extend a warm welcome to all the members, and we look forward to working with Synopsys to make this TAB a great success".
"STMicroelectronics has been an active member of Si2 for about 10 years", said Philippe Magarshack, FTM Group Vice-President Central CAD and Design Solutions General Manager, STMicroelectronics.
"We are pleased with the high level of integrity and service provided by Si2 in its mission of fostering industry collaboration to solve pressing design problems by facilitating the establishment of open standard formats".
"ARM looks forward to the advancement of library modelling technology through working with Si2 and TAB", said Keith Clarke, Vice President of Technical Marketing, ARM.
"As an industry-leading provider of physical IP on advanced processes, this is a natural progression in our long-standing collaboration with Synopsys to ensure continuing evolution of the Liberty standard".
"The rapid move to smaller process geometries will continue to bring immense library modelling challenges", said Mark Saxton, Manager-ASIC EDA, TI.
"Co-operation between the various areas of the semiconductor design industry is crucial to addressing these challenges".
"We welcome the opportunity to contribute to the future evolution of the Liberty library standard through this initiative".
"Virage Logic and Synopsys have a long history of working together to help ensure mutual customers have an integrated design flow based on industry leading EDA tools and semiconductor IP", said Jim Ensell, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Virage Logic.
"Our support of this initiative and joining the TAB will help develop industry standards from an IP provider's perspective".
"The list of high profile, industry-leading companies who are collaborating within the Liberty TAB speaks volumes about the importance of this initiative to the semiconductor industry", said Antun Domic, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Synopsys' Implementation Group.
"Synopsys continues to be committed to open-source standards that foster interoperability and accelerate innovation in the electronics industry".
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