NAPA, Calif., May 27, 2008 — Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on electronic design automation standards, has selected Bruce Cory, DFT (Design for Test) manager at NVIDIA Corporation, as the 2008 recipient of its 5th annual Technical Excellence Award for his commitment to chairing and leading Accelleras Open Compression Interface (OCI) Technical Subcommittee (TSC) and the IEEE OCI standardization efforts.
Accelleras OCI effort standardizes the interface between different suppliers tools to enable vendor interoperability for test pattern generation and diagnosis.
“Bruce Cory, Accelleras OCI Technical Subcommittee chair, led the OCI standard to approval by our member, and is now leading the IEEE standardization effort,” said Shrenik Mehta, Accellera chairman. “He has led an effort that allows designers to use different tools from different suppliers tools independent of the on-chip scan compression logic.”
“Being recognized by Accellera for my technical efforts in support of Accellera's standards motivates me to continue to take on the ongoing challenges of developing excellent design standards with our technical committees,” added Bruce Cory.
The Award will be presented at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim at the Accellera session, Tuesday, June 10th, 11:00am, in the DAC Exhibitor Forum, Exhibit Hall D, Booth 2849. For more information, please visit www.dac.com.
About Accelleras OCI standard
Before on-chip scan compression, it was possible to use different EDA tool vendors for test pattern generation and diagnosis. On-chip scan compression changed that Model because each tool supplier offers a different type of scan compression logic and a tool-specific way to pass information between the insertion, generation and diagnosis steps. OCI standardizes how data is passed from logic insertion to pattern generation and from pattern generation to diagnosis to enable designers to use different supplier tools for each step independent of the on-chip scan compression logic.
About Bruce Cory
Bruce Cory currently is a DFT manager at NVIDIA Corporation and formerly was a DFT engineer at both Hal Computers and Cadence Design Systems. He is Chairman of the IEEE P1450.6.1 Working Group, which was previously Accelleras OCI Technical Subcommittee. He is also a member of the International Test Conference (ITC) and VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) program committees and has been published many times in both conferences and technical journals. Bruce has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.
About Accelleras Technical Excellence Award and Technical Subcommittees
Each year, Accellera's Technical Excellence Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of its Technical Subcommittee members. Candidates are nominated by the industry at large, and nominations are endorsed by participants in Accelleras Technical Subcommittees. All Accellera Technical Subcommittee members are eligible for the award.
Accellera's Technical Subcommittees produce effective and efficient standards for today's advanced IC designs. Participation comes from Accellera member companies, industry contributors, and independents. Technical contributors typically have many years of practical experience with IC design and developing and using design automation tools.
About Accellera
Accellera provides design and verification standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA standards that lower the cost of designing commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accelleras partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are provided to the IEEE Standards Association for formalization and ongoing change control.
For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org.
