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 | THURSDAY, June 10, 2004, 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM | Room: Ballroom 20ABC
TRACK:BUSINESS
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| | KEYNOTE
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| | EDA Industry Growth - Are There Enough New Problems to Solve?
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| | Organizer(s): Anne Cirkel
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| |  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Walden C. Rhines, Chairman EDA Consortium, Chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics
Electronic design automation became an industry when diversification of the electronics and semiconductor industries led to economies of scale for the design software industry.
Although the EDA industry gives the appearance of relatively steady growth over its history, in actuality it is driven by rapid growth segments and saturation of successive waves of new design paradigms, e.g. printed circuit board layout, ASIC top-down design, physical design facilitated by silicon foundries, etc.
As each of these design paradigms matured, they became slow growth segments of EDA. Future growth of the EDA industry can come only from solving new design problems. Fortunately, there is an abundance of these. Dr. Rhines will address the problems most likely to be the drivers of future industry growth, as well as some less likely possibilities.
 | Walden C. Rhines, 57, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics, a leader in worldwide electronic design automation with revenue of over $675 million in 2003.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Rhines was Executive Vice President in charge of Texas Instruments' Semiconductor Group with responsibility for over $5 billion of revenue and over 30,000 people.
Rhines joined TI in 1972 and held a variety of technical and business management positions, primarily in the Semiconductor Group, but also in the Consumer Products Division, Central Research Laboratories and Data Systems Group. From 1985 to 1987, Rhines was President of the Data Systems Group. During his career at TI, Rhines was responsible for development of products including TI's first speech synthesis devices (used in "Speak & Spell") and the TMS 320 family of digital signal processors. He managed TI's microprocessor and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) businesses from less than $10 million in annual revenue to nearly $2 billion.
He served as chairman of the Semiconductor Technical Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, as an executive committee member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Open Systems, as a board member of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association (CBEMA), and as a board member of Sematech. He is board chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium, a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and Lewis and Clark College, and he serves as Chairman of the Engineering Technology Industry Council of the State of Oregon.
Dr. Rhines holds a bachelor of science degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, a master of science and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of business administration from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degree from Nottingham Trent University.
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| | Speaker(s): | Walden C. Rhines, Chairman, EDA Consortium, CEO and Chairman - Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, OR
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