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The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced that Dr. Leon Stok, Vice President of Electronic Design Automation at IBM, has been elected Chair of the Si2 Board of Directors for the remainder of the 2025–2026 term.

The Compact Model Coalition of the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) has issued a call for papers for its inaugural International Compact Modeling Conference (ICMC), scheduled for June 26-27, at the Cliff Royal Sonesta Hotel, San Francisco.

Pankaj Kukkal, executive vice president of MCU/MPU Engineering for NXP Semiconductors, has been elected to a second term as board chair at Silicon Integration Initiative. Si2 is an R&D joint venture that advances design solutions of leading semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, fabless companies, and EDA software providers.

The Silicon Integration Initiative Compact Model Coalition is proud to announce the release of the ASM-ESD diode model, a new electrostatic discharge compact modeling standard that aims to improve the reliability of integrated circuits.

Silicon Integration Initiative today announced it has welcomed Michael Jackson, corporate vice president of research and development at Cadence Design Systems, and Jacob Avidan, senior vice president of engineering at Synopsys, to the Si2 board of directors. They replace Aparna Dey, senior product marketing group director, and Dave DeMaria, vice president of corporate operations, respectively.

At its recent Annual Members Meeting, Silicon Integration Initiative announced the election of Pankaj Kukkal, vice president of EDA, emulation, and post-silicon engineering for Qualcomm Technologies, as chair of the board of directors. The Si2 board represents leading semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, fabless companies, and EDA software providers.

Technologists from Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Cadence Design Systems are this year's Silicon Integration Initiative Power of Partnerships Award winners, recognizing the Si2 volunteer team with the most significant contributions to silicon-to-system implementation.

Silicon Integration Initiative, a leading research and development joint venture, has promoted two technologists as part of a reorganization to strengthen semiconductor industry design flow interoperability among its member companies.

Anant Adke, vice president of Engineering, Siemens EDA, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors. He replaces Juan Rey, who retired from Siemens EDA in December.

Rahul Goyal, vice president and general manager of Product and Design Ecosystem Enablement at Intel Corporation, has been re-elected to a one-year term as chairman of the board of directors of Silicon Integration Initiative, a leading research and development joint venture that provides design interoperability standards and solutions from silicon to systems.

Silicon Integration Initiative has launched the Technology Interoperability Trajectory Advisory CouNcil, a thought leadership collaboration to drive industry growth in crucial vertical semiconductor markets.

Authors of a groundbreaking Silicon Integration Initiative white paper identifying a common data model as the most critical need to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning in semiconductor electronic design automation are winners of the 2021 Si2 Power of Partnerships Award.

Silicon Integration Initiative, a leading research and development joint venture providing standard interoperability solutions for semiconductor design tools, announced today the election of its board of directors for 2021-2022.

The growing impact and productivity gains of designing semiconductors in the cloud comprise the focus the Si2 Annual Technology Forum, an online event scheduled for Friday, August 6, from 8:00 a.m. - to 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Peter Lee, director of a global team responsible for the DRAM design environment at Micron Technology, will receive the quarterly Silicon Integration Initiative Pinnacle Award. This award recognizes volunteers for their exceptional contributions to Si2’s success as a leading semiconductor R&D joint venture.

Vic Kulkarni, former vice president of strategy at Ansys, has joined Silicon Integration Initiative as chief strategy officer. He now supports the Si2 leadership team’s expanding opportunities as one of the semiconductor industry’s leading R&D joint ventures.

John Lee, general manager and vice president of the Ansys Electronics and Semiconductor Division, has been elected to the Silicon Integration Initiative board of directors. He replaces Vic Kulkarni, who retires from Ansys this month.