Virage Logic Chief Scientist Named 2005 IEEE Industrial Pioneer Award Recipient
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June 14 2005
Dr. Yervant Zorian Recognized for Significant Contributions to Advanced
Embedded Test and Repair Technologies for SoC Design
Design Automation Conference, ANAHEIM, Calif., June 14
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Citing his enormous contributions
to design-for-test and embedded repair technology for complex
System-on-Chip (SoC) design, Dr.
Yervant Zorian, vice president and chief scientist at Virage Logic
Corporation (Nasdaq: VIRL) was today named the 2005 IEEE Circuits
and Systems (CAS) Industrial Pioneer award recipient. Dr. Zorian’s
technical accomplishments include pioneering work in Built-In Self-Test
(BIST) and embedded repair technologies and products that have
dramatically boosted the quality, reliability and manufacturability
of digital systems.
In 2000, Dr. Zorian brought his technology vision and expertise in BIST
solutions to Virage Logic where he helped to pioneer a new class of
Intellectual Property (IP) called Silicon Aware IP(TM). Silicon Aware
IP is Physical IP, such as memories, logic and I/Os, designed with
embedded Infrastructure IP for test, diagnostics, repair, and yield
enhancements. The result is IP that is high yielding and enables rapid
time-to-volume at advanced process nodes. In addition, Silicon Aware
IP results in much higher test quality and reliability. Today, Virage
Logic believes it is the only commercial IP provider to offer Silicon
Aware IP, an example of which is its Self-Test and Repair (STAR)
Memory System(TM). The company’s Silicon Aware IP initiative calls
for its entire product portfolio to become Silicon Aware IP over time.
“The self-test and repair capabilities that Dr. Zorian developed for
SoCs have become the de facto standard in 90-nanometer technology
for much of the electronics designed around the world,” said Adam
Kablanian, president and CEO of Virage Logic. “His pioneering vision
for providing an effective test technology solution integrated with IP
has enabled Virage Logic to deliver a proven path for design success
at the advanced process geometries of 130nm and below. We are proud
to have such a technology visionary on our team and congratulate him
on his selection by the IEEE as their 2005 Industrial Pioneer.”
Each year, the IEEE CAS Society honors outstanding scientists and
engineers who have successfully translated their research into
commercial products or applications. With the Silicon Aware STAR
Memory System, Dr.
Zorian turned the concepts of embedded repair to real life systems
that are yieldable and reliable, and succeeded in penetrating the
industry and changing its standard practices.
“It is a great honor to be selected by the IEEE CAS Society for
this award,” said Dr. Zorian, vice president and chief scientist of
Virage Logic.
“I’ve worked with many talented people at Virage Logic to develop
the self- test and repair solutions we have today and this award is
as much a reflection of their hard work as it is mine. Together, we
have helped SoC designers accelerate silicon success by improving
reliability and manufacturability to speed time-to-volume and
significantly increase yield.”
About Dr. Zorian
Dr. Zorian joined Virage Logic in 2000 as Chief Scientist. Prior to
joining Virage Logic, he served as Chief Technology Advisor at
LogicVision and as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell
Labs, AT&T. His responsibilities included developing and disseminating
embedded test and repair solutions for IP cores, chips, boards and
systems. Dr. Zorian also serves on the Board of Directors of several
public and privately owned companies.
Dr. Zorian serves as the IEEE Computer Society Vice President for
Conferences and Tutorials as well as the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of
the IEEE Design & Test of Computers. He also participates in editorial
advisory boards of IEEE Spectrum and JETTA. He has chaired numerous
conferences, symposiums, workshops, and the IEEE Test Technology
Technical Council of IEEE Computer Society. He founded and chairs the
IEEE 1500 Standard Working Group, and the IEEE Workshops on Testing
Embedded Core-based Systems-on-Chips (TECS), and Infrastructure
IP Workshop.
Dr. Zorian has authored over 300 papers and four books, received
several best paper awards, and holds twelve U.S. patents. He is
a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, Honorary Doctor of
the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and a Fellow of IEEE.
Dr. Zorian received his master’s degree in Computer Engineering from
the University of Southern California, a doctorate in Electrical
Engineering from McGill University and an executive master’s degree
in Business Administration from Wharton School of Business, University
of Pennsylvania.
About the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
The Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society is a division of the IEEE that
is dedicated to the theory, analysis, design (computer aided design),
and practical implementation of circuits, and the application of
circuit theoretic techniques to systems and to signal processing. The
coverage of this field includes the spectrum of activities from, and
including, basic scientific theory to industrial applications. The
purposes of the Society are scientific, literary and educational
in character, directed toward the advancement of the theory
and practice of electrical, electronics and allied branches of
engineering or the related arts and science, in order to increase
the professional standing of the Members and Affiliates. Visit CAS
at .
About Virage Logic
Founded in 1996, Virage Logic Corporation rapidly established itself
as a technology and market leader in providing advanced embedded
memory intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated
circuits.
Today the company is a global leader in semiconductor IP platforms
comprising embedded memories, standard cells, and I/Os and is
pioneering the development of a new class of IP called Silicon Aware
IP. Silicon Aware IP tightly integrates Physical IP (memory, logic
and I/Os) with the embedded test, diagnostic, and repair capabilities
of Infrastructure IP to help ensure manufacturability and optimized
yield at the advanced process nodes.
Virage
Logic’s highly differentiated product portfolio provides higher
performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield to
foundries, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and fabless
customers who develop products for the consumer, communications
and networking, hand-held and portable, and computer and graphics
markets. The company’s comprehensive quality efforts are validated in
its FirstPass-Silicon Characterization Lab, which helps ensure high
quality, reliable IP across a wide range of foundries and process
technologies. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Virage Logic
has R&D, sales and support offices worldwide. For more information,
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