Janet Olson

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Janet Olson is a Silicon Valley technology executive and leading contributor to the field of semiconductor Electronic Design Automation (EDA).[1] For over 30 years, she was Vice President of Engineering at the world's top two semiconductor EDA companies - first Synopsys and then Cadence Design Systems.[1] She holds 9 U.S. patents.[2]

With a focus on logic synthesis,[3] Olson published numerous papers and presented at international EDA conferences, such as the International Symposium on Physical Design, the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, and Design Automation and Test in Europe.[4] [5] [6] [7]

She is on the Board of Equal Opportunity Schools, and chairs its Technology Governance Committee.[2]

Olson obtained her BS in electrical engineering and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University.[1][3]

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References

  1. "Janet Olson" Archived 2019-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, Semicon West speaker profile
  2. "Janet Olson". Equal Opportunity Schools. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  3. "Janet Olson to Receive Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award"
  4. "Synthesis for Advanced Nodes: An Industry Perspective". ACM Digital Library. March 25, 2012. doi:10.1145/2160916.2160953. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  5. "Enabling Exact Delay Synthesis". ACM Digital Library: 352–359. November 13, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  6. "Logic optimization and synthesis: trends and directions in industry". ACM Digital Library: 1303–1305. March 27, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  7. Amaru, Luca; Soeken, Mathias; Vuillod, Patrick; Luo, Jiong; Mishchenko, Alan; Olson, Janet; Brayton, Robert; De Micheli, Giovanni (March 2018). Improvements to Boolean Resynthesis. pp. 755–760. doi:10.23919/DATE.2018.8342108. ISBN 978-3-9819263-0-9. Retrieved June 8, 2025. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)