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For more than three decades, SNUG Silicon Valley has connected engineers, designers, and thought leaders with technical experts to network and share best practices for tackling design and verification challenges using Synopsys technologies.
Present at SNUG Silicon Valley - Call For Content is Opening Soon
The Call for Content invites you to showcase how you’re developing tomorrow’s products today using Synopsys solutions. Submissions help shape content across Synopsys Converge—including SNUG and Simulation World—highlighting best practices and real-world results in IP, design, verification, and system-level analysis and simulation.The Call for Content invites you to showcase how you are developing tomorrow’s products today with Synopsys solutions. As a SNUG presenter, you will increase your visibility among peers in the Synopsys user community and, in addition to professional recognition, be eligible for awards (please review your company’s gift acceptance policy to determine eligibility).
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Technical Committee
SNUG thanks the members of the Technical Committee who volunteer their time and expertise to support SNUG's technical quality and deliver the benefit of their perspective to the users of Synopsys tools and technology.
Technical Committee Chair:
Nitin Navale, Marvell Semiconductor
Committee Members:
Amogh Sakdeo, NVIDIA
Anand Iyer, Etched
Anuja Nanhe, Qualcomm
Atul Bhargava, ST
Brian Kane, Northrop Grumman
Chris Kiegle, Marvell Semiconductor
Don Mills, Independent
Firouzeh Nourkhalaj, Synopsys
Glen McDonnell, Broadcom
Hongda Lu, SARC
Jack Dong, Intel
Jason Rziha, Independent
Jeff Vance, AMD
Jeff Montesano, Meta
Jignesh Patel, GlobalFoundries
Jing Zhang, Intel
Jon Colburn, Synopsys
JT Longino, River AI
Karthik Rajan, Independent
Krupa Shah, Cisco Systems
Leah Clark, Independent
Maitrik Shah, Micron Technology Inc.
Mark Sprague, Intel
Neel Sonara, Broadcom
Olivia Poon, Marvell Semiconductor
Pinal Patel, EINFOCHIPS LTD.
Raghavendra Santhanagopal, GlobalFoundries
Raghavendra Rao Kota, Arm
Ram Babu Penugonda, Google
Ravikishore Gandikota, NVIDIA
Ronald Kalim, Intel
Ronald Goodstein, Lockheed Martin
Sachin Parikh, Broadcom
Sangeetha Chandran Sarala, Micron
Saurabh Bhadoriya, NVIDIA
Savita Banerjee, Independent
Siddharth Krishna Kumar, Etched AI
Sivakumar Paturi, Qualcomm
Stella Matarrese, Synopsys
Tom Mahatdejkul, Arm
Tony Todesco, AMD
Upasna Vishnoi, Marvell Semiconductor
Victoria Kolesov, Intel
Yudhan Rajoo, Meta Platforms Inc.
Zafar Hasan, NVIDIA
SNUG Silicon Valley Bylaws
The SNUG Silicon Valley Bylaws are written with the intent of both providing for a valuable conference for Synopsys users and promoting the development of a body of useful peer-reviewed papers.
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