Synopsys’ Sashi Obilisetty is honoured at DAC 2024

The executive director of R&D in Synopsys’ EDA group, Sashi Obilisetty, was presented with the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award at this year’s DAC in San Francisco, California.

The award recognises individuals who have “significantly helped advance women in electronic design”.

This year’s recipient is an entrepreneur, founding DualSoft in 1998, focusing on RT analysis, which was acquired by TansEDA in 2000. The following year, Sashi founded VeriEZ to address verification cycles. Sashi was also chief architect for silicon solutions at Google Cloud. She joined Synopsys in 2009 enabling design, verification, manufacturing and post-silicon domains and has most recently been spearheading the integration of AI into the company’s products.

Saisha is co-author of four patents in AI in EDA domain, covering learning platform essentials for real-time analytics, AI in verification debug, and how to use AI/ML classification techniques to enhance RTL compilation.

She has also served as the Cloud Focus chair at DAC (2021-2023) and chair for the Women in EDA committee (2013-2014).

The Marie R. Pistilli worked with her husband Pasquale (Pat) to plan and organise events in the EDA industry, including the Design Automation Conference (DAC). She worked to advance women in the EDA field, introducing a women-specific workshop to the event.