Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on the creation and adoption of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards and Intellectual Property (IP) standards, announced its 2010/11 elected officers.

Shishpal Rawat, director of business enabling programs with the Design Technology Solutions group at Intel, was elected chair.

Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development, Mentor Graphics, was re-elected vice-chair.

Stan Krolikoski, group director, Standards and Interoperability, Cadence Design Systems, and Yatin Trivedi, director, Standards and Interoperability Programs, Synopsys, were re-elected secretary and treasurer, respectively.

Accellera is on the path to create formal standards through the IEEE and currently has seven standardization subcommittees operating. These include: Interface Technical Committee (ITC), IPtagging ,Open Verification Library (OVL), SystemRDL (Register Description Language), Unified Coverage Interoperability (UCI), Verification IP (VIP) and Verilog Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS).

Member companies include: ARM Ltd.; Cadence Design Systems; Freescale Semiconductor; Intel Corp.; Mentor Graphics; Nokia; NXP Semiconductors; Oracle Corporation; Qualcomm Inc.; SpringSoft, Inc.; ST Microelectronics; Synopsys Inc.; and Texas Instruments.