Shrenik Mehta

Shrenik Mehta is the Director of Frontend Technologies and OpenSPARC program. As Director for Frontend Technologies he is responsible for the tools and methodology in the areas of Simulation/Hardware Acceleration, Formal Verification, Testability & Debug tools, Implementation and Verification IP used in the development and validation of ASICs, Processors and Systems.

As OpenSPARC Program Director, Shrenik has been driving the details from the infancy of the project to the public release of the deliverables and looks forward to building a larger OpenSPARC community. The OpenSPARC community contributors and partners can explore and innovate in Multi-threaded algorithms and applications, Operating Systems, System Architecture, EDA Tools/Methodology, Circuit implementations, Compiler Tools, System Modeling, System on a Chip, Debug tools, Performance analysis and benchmarking, Implementation and Verification IP.

Shrenik is currently the Chairman of Accellera, an industry standard's organisation Accellera's mission is to drive worldwide development and use of standards required by systems, semiconductor and design tools companies, which enhance a language-based design automation process. (www.accellera.org) He was also the Vice-Chair of IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog Workging Group

During his 15+ years at Sun, Shrenik has been involved with SPARC and Java hardware designs. He managed verification of 5 SPARC processor products. the first single chip integration of the SPARC Interger Unit and Floating Point Unit called Mini, microSPARC-I, microSPARC-II, the first 64 bit UltraSPARC I and UltraSPARC IIi. Prior to Sun, Shrenik had worked as a Design Manager at Nexgen Microsystems working on X86 compatible processor. Prior to Nexgen, Shrenik worked as a designer on graphics and FDDI Networking products at AMD.

He holds eight US Patents and one patent in Taiwan.

Shrenik enjoys the outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, running, camping. Currently spending his spare time learning piano.