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“The EDA Consortium has been effective in providing a forum for the industry to address common issues, both business and technical. I believe it is important to continue to work together as an industry to address new challenges and threats as the industry continues to change and evolve…If given the chance to serve; I believe my experience and perspective can help EDAC to continue to address the challenges faced by our industry. I would very much appreciate your support.” Ed Cheng, President & CEO, Gradient Design Automation
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“Through EDAC and through direct work with commercial companies in the piracy space several commercial anti-piracy solutions have been brought to market. This is a good start but there is still work to be done sharing best practices so all EDAC members can benefit…I would like to serve on the EDAC Board of Directors and contribute my many years of experience to the organization.” Dane Collins, CEO, AWR Corporation
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“For the past number of years, it has been my privilege to serve on the Board of EDAC...And once again this year, I will bring that same commitment to EDAC if given the opportunity to serve.” Aart de Geus, Chairman & CEO, Synopsys, Inc.
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“As the semiconductor industry drives to advanced nodes, addressing the challenges that lie at the interface between design and manufacturing will become critically important for the EDA industry. In this environment, I want to continue to serve as a director to promote the EDA Consortium goals for fostering industry wide communication and innovation to address these challenges.” John Kibarian, President & CEO, PDF Solutions
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“Going forward, our industry must increase financial realization of the value we deliver to our customers. We must work within a market that has adapted to commodity-style buying patterns and the emergence of off-the-shelf flows. If reelected, I will work to increase industry dialogue (to the extent legally-allowable for an industry consortium) around business innovations.” Kathryn Kranen, President & CEO, Jasper Design Automation
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“The Electronic Design Automation Consortium has achieved recognition throughout the EDA industry, and among the user community, as the primary representative of the EDA companies. We have restricted our activities to those areas where we are unable to achieve important results individually but where joint cooperation makes new things possible...Over the past sixteen years, I have been glad to participate actively in the growth and accomplishments of the EDA Consortium...” Wally Rhines, Chairman & CEO, Mentor Graphics Corporation
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“...we all have the same common goal – to take a more substantial portion of the total Semi Industry market; striving to grow disproportionately to the Semi Industry’s growth…I understand our market space very well – we are in a transformation period, and I am willing to help contribute to the success of the industry and to EDAC as a pro-active Board Member.” Alex Shubat, President & CEO, Virage Logic
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“I believe EDA’s future success will depend on its members fully understanding these rapid and fundamental market changes, and taking advantage of them with innovative technology and business models. EDAC can be an effective platform for catalyzing this transformation and fostering cooperation across industries…As an EDAC Board Member, I would strive to cement stronger ties between EDA/IP, semiconductor companies and the broader electronics design chain by establishing stronger cooperation between EDAC and semiconductor and electronics industry organizations worldwide...” Ravi Subramanian, President & CEO, Berkeley Design Automation
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“The EDA Consortium represents the unified voice of our industry; it will take the collective leadership of EDAC to work together to solve customer challenges and promote EDA as a critical component of the semiconductor and electronics industries. Collectively through EDAC we need to communicate EDA’s intrinsic value to the greater marketplace.” Lip-Bu Tan, President & CEO, Cadence Design Systems
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