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Aki is the chairman and CEO of D2S, Inc. (www.design2silicon.com). Aki founded D2S in 2007. Previously, Aki served as CTO at Cadence Design Systems. Aki returned to Cadence for the second time through the acquisition of Simplex Solutions where he was President/COO and inside board member. He was also an inside board member and VP at Pure Software. Simplex and Pure both IPO’d during his tenure. He was a founding member of Tangent Systems in 1984, which was subsequently acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1989.
Aki has been granted over 100 US patents. He spent the first 21 years of his career in EDA physical design. At Tangent in 1986, Aki designed and authored the DEF/LEF formats for automated place and route that later became the Si2 LEF/DEF and IEEE 1481 standards, and invented the ECO (engineering change order) in place and route flows. At D2S, he has been focused on GPU acceleration for semiconductor manufacturing since 2009.
Aki is a co-founder of the eBeam Initiative (eBeam.org). Aki is currently serving as President of the SPIE BACUS Technical Group and was recognized as a SPIE Fellow in 2023. Aki serves on the governing council of the Electronic System Design Alliance, a SEMI technical community. Aki was on the board of HLDS, RTime, Bristol, S7, and Coverity, Inc., all of which were successfully acquired.
Aki received his BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
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