NXP Semiconductors Executive Reelected Board Chair of Silicon Integration Initiative for 2024-2025
July 08 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Pankaj Kukkal, executive vice president of MCU/MPU Engineering
for NXP Semiconductors, has been reelected to a third term as board
chair of Silicon Integration Initiative for 2024-2025.
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Pankaj Kukkal, executive vice president,
MCU/MPU Engineering, NXP Semiconductors, was reelected board chair
of Silicon Integration Initiative. (Photo: Business Wire)
Kukkal joined the Si2 board in 2020 to advocate for improved
integrated circuit design tool interoperability and assumed the
chair role in 2022. Before NXP, he held executive leadership and
engineering positions at Qualcomm and Intel, and design engineering
positions at startup Knowledge Based Silicon and Ricoh
Electronics.
Kukkal earned a bachelor’s of technology degree in Electrical
Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra,
India, and a master’s of science degree in Computer Engineering
from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Si2 is an R&D joint venture that advances design solutions
of leading semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, fabless
companies, and EDA software providers.
Newly elected members of the 2024-2025 Si2 board of directors
and their committee affiliations are:
- Niels Faché, vice president and general manager, Keysight EDA,
Si2 Finance Committee
- Juan C. Rey, vice president of Government Programs, Siemens
EDA, Si2 Executive Committee
- Hong Sok Choi, vice president, Computer Aided Engineering
Group, Sk-hynix, Si2 Finance Committee
- Lluis Paris, senior director, 3DFabric Alliance, Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Si2 Executive Committee
Returning members of the 2024-2025 Si2 board of directors and
their committee affiliations are:
- John Lee, general manager and vice president, Semiconductors
and Optics Business Unit, Ansys, Si2 Executive Committee
- Michael Jackson, corporate vice president, Research and
Development, Cadence Design Systems, Si2 Executive Committee
- Richard Trihy, senior vice president, Design and Technology
Enablement, GlobalFoundries, Si2 Finance Committee
- Roger Carpenter, hardware engineer, Google, Si2 Executive
Committee
- Leon Stok, vice president, Electronic Design Automation, IBM,
Si2 Executive Committee
- Rahul Goyal, vice president and general manager, Product and
Design Ecosystem Enablement, Intel, Si2 Executive Committee
- Pankaj Kukkal, executive vice president of MCU/MPU Engineering,
NXP Semiconductors, Si2 Board Chair and Si2 Executive
Committee
- Lu Dai, senior director of Technical Standards, Qualcomm, Si2
Treasurer and Si2 Finance Committee
- Jung Yun Choi, corporate vice president, Electronics Design
Technology Team, Samsung, Si2 Finance Committee
- Robert Aslett, president and CEO, Silicon Integration
Initiative, Si2 Executive and Finance Committees
- Jacob Avidan, senior vice president, Signoff and Silicon
Innovations, Synopsys, Si2 Finance Committee
- Keith Green, distinguished member of the Technical Staff,
Analog Technology Development, Texas Instruments, Si2 Secretary and
Si2 Finance Committee
About the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2)
The Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (Si2) was founded in
1988 as the Common Framework Initiative (CFI). Si2 is a
not-for-profit research and development joint venture funded by its
member companies. CFI became Si2 in 1998 to reflect a transition
from developing a common framework for all electronic design
automation software tools to industry-acceptable solutions enabling
interoperability. Si2 provides a collaborative environment utilized
by engineers from over 60 design, EDA supplier, and foundry member
companies. Engineers from member companies and academia work
together to develop solutions that permit innovation while
guaranteeing compatibility.
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