SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- January 10, 2012 -- Dr. John W. Sanguinetti, chief technology officer at
Forte Design Systems™, has been named a 2011 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
for contributions to hardware simulation.
Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, and design
verification for 20 years; he is being recognized by ACM for helping to drive innovations that
will sustain competitiveness in the digital age.
After working for DEC, Amdahl, ELXSI, Ardent, and NeXT computer manufacturers, he founded
Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was president until 1995. Dr. Sanguinetti was the principal
architect of the Verilog Compiled Simulator (VCS), and was a major contributor to the resurgence
in the use of the Verilog hardware design language (HDL) in the design community. He served on
the Open Verilog International Board of Directors from 1992 to 1995 and was a major contributor
to the working group which drafted the specification for the IEEE 1364 Verilog standard.
After Chronologic, he co-founded CynApps™, Inc., in 1997. It merged with Chronology™
Corporation in 2000 to form Forte Design Systems. Dr. Sanguinetti holds a Ph.D. in Computer and
Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
ACM will formally recognize Dr. Sanguinetti and the other 2011 Fellows at its annual Awards
Banquet in June in San Francisco.
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that enable
design at a higher level of abstraction and improve design results. Its innovative
synthesis technologies and intellectual property offerings allow design teams creating
complex electronic chips and systems to reduce their overall design and verification time.
More than half of the top 20 worldwide semiconductor companies use Forte's products in
production today for ASIC, SoC and FPGA design. Forte is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif., with additional offices in England, Japan, Korea and the United States. For more
information, visit www.ForteDS.com.
Forte acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
For more information, contact:
Brett Cline, Forte Design Systems
(978) 206-1855
brett@ForteDS.com
Nanette Collins, Public Relations for Forte Design Systems
(617) 437-1822
nanette@nvc.com
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