DASC Election Nominees – December 2003

DASC Election Nominees – December 2003

The nominees for the DASC election ballot are listed below and on the following pages. Each nominee is listed on a separate page with their position statement. Nominees for the same position are in surname alphabetical order.

Summary:

Position / Nominees
Chair / Peter Ashenden
Vice-Chair / Victor Berman
Michael McNamara
Secretary / Stephen Bailey
Dennis Brophy
John Willis
Treasurer / Oz Levia

Nominee for Chair

Nominee: Peter J. Ashenden Ashenden Designs

Nominated by: Peter J. Ashenden

Position Statement:

I am an independent consultant in EDA and a Senior Member of IEEE, the Computer Society and IEEE-SA. I have been involved in standards development for 20 years, first in the Microprocessor Standards Committee, and for the last 12 years in design automation standards. I have served as DASC Vice Chair for three years and as Interim Chair since mid-2003. I believe standards are vital to the health of the EDA industry, and am committed to ensuring a high quality process for developing standards within DASC.


Nominee for Vice-Chair

Nominee: Victor Berman Cadence Design

Nominated by: Victor Berman

Position Statement:

I am supportive of the excellent work that Peter Ashenden has done as DASC Chair and would like to run for Vice-Chair to use my extensive experience in standards work to help him move the process forward.

I have been actively involved in standards work since the early 1980s working to standardize VHDL and other related standards such as P1076.4 VITAL. I served as DASC Chair for six years and have extensive knowledge of the IEEE process and the people who make it work.

If elected I will take an active role in assisting the Chair in improving the working of the DASC and in acting as a liaison to other related standards activities in an effort to broaden the scope of DASC to include areas such as IP standards that have become an integral part of electronic design.


Nominee for Vice-Chair

Nominee: Michael McNamara Verisity Design

Nominated by: Yaron Kashai

Position Statement:

Position Statement of Michael McNamara

Design Automation Standards are the essential formats that enable the alliance of users, consultants and suppliers (both large and small) to encapsulate intellectual property in a form where it can be used to make the computers, communication devices and electronics which drive the 200 billion semiconductor business and the multi-trillion dollar world wide electronics business. The IEEE's DASC has the responsibility to broker the relationship between the three parties, and deliver stable, easily used standards that address the needs of all parties.

Michael McNamara brings a full range of experience as a serially successful computer architect, independent contractor, and tool supplier to the position of DASC Vice Chairman. Additionally Mac brings the experience of serving on a number of company boards, both public and private.

Mac earned a BS'84 and M'Eng'85 in Electrical Engineering & Computer Architecture from Cornell University. He then worked as a computer architect at ESL/TRW from 85-87; Cydrome from 87-89; and at

Ardent/Stardent/Kubota Pacific from 89-92. As a member of these teams, mac helped deliver in aggregate 4 different computer systems comprised of 26 unique chip designs, verification and tapeout efforts.

Mac moved from the ranks of users to become a supplier when he joined John Sanguinetti at Chronologic in 1993, where Mac served as VP of Engineering, and delivered the VCS Verilog simulator. At that time Mac joined the IEEE 1364 Verilog Standardization Working Group; today he is the chairman of this DASC sponsored effort.

A year after Viewlogic purchased Chronologic, in 1995 Mac formed a consulting company with John and a number of former colleagues; and a year later in 1996 formed a smaller company, Silicon Sorcery, both focused on verification consulting. Clients included SGI, Cisco, Stratacom (now part of Cisco), Chromatic Research (part of ATI), and Raycer (part of Apple). These two years of experience as a consultant taught Mac and his team the importance of verification as an area ripe for new tools, and new standards to drive them; and gave the team experience in shipping 6 more integrated circuits. Mac and his team renamed the company to Surefire Verification, and refocused on delivering tools to the verification market. In 1999 SureFire merged into Verisity; and in 2001 Verisity went public. In 2002 Verisity began the effort that lead to the formation of IEEE P1647, and effort to standardize Verisity's 'e' language; a cause championed by Mac within Verisity.

Mac has served on the board of Verisity since 1999; also on the board of Provis, a private EDA company, since this summer. Mac has served on the board of Accellera since 2002. Mac is also on the board of a small water company that serves the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he makes his home with his wife and daughter.

I will strive to bring a balance to the DASC, and insure that all parties have a voice in crafting open standards that facilitate the expanding design automation marketplace. I urge you to vote for me to serve you as the Vice Chairman of the DASC.

Michael McNamara


Nominee for Secretary

Nominee: Stephen Bailey Mentor Graphics

Nominated by: Peter J. Ashenden

Position Statement:

I am seeking the office of Secretary of the DASC and believe I can

fulfill the duties of the office. I have been active in DASC and DASC

working groups for over 10 years. I understand the operations of the

DASC and provide an objective viewpoint to the deliberations of the

DASC.

As an active DASC participant with the support of my employer, I will be

able to make the vast majority of meetings to record minutes. I will

also actively maintain the DASC roster to allow Working Groups to easily

verify their voting memberships. I will also help to facilitate

communications between the DASC, the DASC Steering Committee and the

broader DASC membership.

I appreciate your support.

-Steve Bailey


Nominee for Secretary

Nominee: Dennis Brophy Mentor Graphics

Nominated by: Oz Levia

Position Statement:

Statement -- My longstanding participation in the IEEE Computer Society’s DASC reflects my belief in what can be accomplished. I have chaired two DASC Working Groups to successful completion. As I seek the position of Secretary, I do so to actively promote the reestablished well being of the DASC to restore it to prior levels of prominence and relevance. The IEEE has changed since the inception of the DASC, the Standards Association has been invented, and I think it is incumbent of the DASC to leverage these organizational changes.

I have contributed to the success of several IEEE standards (1076.4-2000 and 1481-1999) through direct Working Group chairmanship. I will bring the same success of building standards to DASC and DASC SC leadership and work to:

·  Maintain and keep current the records of the DASC as required of the Secretary.

·  Attend the meetings of the DASC to keep records of those meetings and publish minutes of those meetings as required of the Secretary.

·  Work with the DASC WG chairs in the role of Secretary.

·  Ensure that DASC members who volunteer set the direction and objectives for the group.

·  Make business decisions that maximize the benefits the electronic design community gets from DASC work.

·  Push decision-making, responsibility, and authority in the DASC to the working groups to make the DASC flexible, adaptable and relevant to the diverse needs of our global membership.

·  Promote a renewed global reach of the DASC standards making process.

·  Challenge the liaisons between the DASC and industry to ensure our standards are valuable to the industrial, business and academic communities worldwide.

As Secretary, I would offer my organizational and managerial skills along with financial experience developed through participation in other industry consortia to work as a strong member of the DASC executive team and the DASC Steering Committee in accordance with prescribed duties to help develop plans, set priorities, control projects as well to resolve financial issues with the DASC.

As a mark of success as Secretary, I would strive to make the DASC better at the end of my term than when I was elected. I seek your support for the position of Secretary.


Nominee for Secretary

Nominee: John Willis FTL Systems

Nominated by: John Willis

Position Statement:

I am willing to stand for election as the DASC secretary. I've been
doing the job for the last ten years or so.

John Willis


Nominee for Treasurer

Nominee: Oz Levia Synopsys

Nominated by: Peter J. Ashenden

Position Statement:

As an officer of DASC I will work to enable DASC working and study groups in their mission of delivering standards that are relevant to the EDA and hardware design community. I will utilize my experience with standards groups and my knowledge of the semi-conductor markets and technology to help create clear priorities and to ensure users see value in IEEE standards.

As treasurer, my focus will be on maintaining the financial resources available to DASC and making them available to the benefit of the steering committee or working groups as well as administering the membership.

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