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16 April 2010

Product News

EDA Consortium Elects Officers and Board Members

The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Consortium announced that it has elected a nine-member Board of Directors and officers to serve the organization through spring 2012. Walden C. Rhines, Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation, was re-elected chairman by the new board. Kathryn Kranen, president and CEO of Jasper Design Automation, was re-elected as vice chair, and is joined by Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems as a newly elected vice chair.

In addition to the officers, the elected EDA Consortium Board members include:

•Edmund Cheng, president and CEO, Gradient Design Automation

•Dane Collins, CEO, AWR Corporation

•Aart de Geus, chairman and CEO, Synopsys, Inc

•John Kibarian, CEO, president and co-founder, PDF Solutions

•Alex Shubat, president and CEO, Virage Logic

•Ravi Subramanian, president and CEO, Berkeley Design Automation

The new board was elected by the EDA Consortium’s general membership during the voting period ending April 15, 2010. The board chairman was and vice chairmen were elected at a special board meeting held following the Spring Members Meeting on April 15. At the same meeting, the Board also reappointed Robert M. Gardner CFO and Treasurer and Mark White, Partner, White & Lee, LLP, Corporate Secretary.

About the EDA Consortium

The EDA Consortium is the international association of companies that provide tools and services that enable engineers to create the world's electronic products. EDA is the technology used to design electronics for the communications, computer, space technology, medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics markets among others.

For more information about the EDA Consortium or to subscribe to the Market Statistics Service, contact EDA Consortium, 111 West Saint John Street, Suite 220, San Jose, Calif. 95113, USA, office 408-287-3322, fax 408-317-3322 or visit www.edac.org.

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