New Board to Direct VSI Alliance; Six Incumbent Board Member Companies Renew; LSI Logic Joins as a First-Time Board Member Company
APTOS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 20, 2004—
The VSI Alliance (VSIA) today announced the results of
the 2004 election for Board of Directors. Seven seats were up for
election, and these seats have been filled by six incumbents and one
new board member. The following Board members were elected: John
Goodenough, ARM; Bill Billowitch, Agere Systems; Victor Berman,
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.; Homer Hegedus, Freescale Semiconductor
Inc.; Raminderpal Singh, IBM Corporation; Ronnie Vasishta, LSI Logic
Corporation; and Ian Mackintosh, Sonics, Inc. Ronnie Vasishta at LSI
Logic joins the incumbents as a first-time Board member. The current
Board consists of eleven Board members, including those listed above
and the following: Infineon Technologies AG, Mentor Graphics
Corporation, ST Microelectronics and Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC).
"VSIA's work in solving important issues related to silicon IP
development and usage aligns with LSI Logic's goal of supporting IP
reuse and open IP standards for both cell-based ASIC and Platform
ASICs. As a board member, we will help guide the Alliance in future IP
decisions that will benefit SoC designers and IP designers and users,"
said Ronnie Vasishta, vice president, Technology Marketing, LSI Logic
Corporation.
"This is the strongest VSIA Board the industry has experienced,"
said Michael Kaskowitz, VSIA President and GM, Mentor Graphics IP
Division. "The Board level participation from big companies is
indicative of their belief that the VSIA is solving the complex SoC
and IP related issues."
For the past 18 months, the VSIA has undergone significant
changes, including a refocusing on key issues and a reorganization of
the working groups into Pillars that address the key issues. The four
Pillars are: IP Quality, IP Protection, IP Infrastructure (IP
packaging and transfer) and R&D. During the past year, the IP Quality
Pillar in conjunction with the FSA have released the Quality IP Metric
to VSIA members. During the past month, the IP Protection Pillar
released the Hard and Soft IP Tagging Standards to members. The IP
Infrastructure is working on an IP Packaging spec that should be
released by the end of Q1, 2005. The R&D Group is currently looking
at Analog FIRM, IP Valuation, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
For more information on the VSIA and the Pillars, go to
www.vsi.org.
About VSIA
The VSI Alliance (VSIA) is an open, international organization
that includes representatives from all segments of the SoC industry:
System houses, Semiconductor vendors, Electronic Design Automation
(EDA) companies and Intellectual Property (IP) providers. VSIA's
mission is to dramatically enhance the productivity of the SoC design
community by providing leading edge commercial and technical solutions
and insight into the development, integration and reuse of IP. VSIA
has wide industry participation with more than 70 member companies
from around the world. Membership is open to any company with an
interest in the development and promotion of business solutions and
open standards used in the design of System-on-Chip. For more
information, visit the VSIA web site at www.vsi.org, or e-mail to
info@vsi.org.
The VSI Alliance is a trademark of the Virtual Socket Interface
Alliance. All other brands or trademarks are the property of their
respective holders and should be treated as such.
Contact:
VSI Alliance
Susan Cain, 831-662-6092
scain@caincom.com
