Accellera Technical Excellence Award

Congratulations Matthew Ballance, Recipient of the 2021 Technical Excellence Award!

Matthew is one of the earliest and most frequent contributors to the Portable Test and Stimulus standard (PSS). He is a member of the Portable Stimulus Working Group and a Product Engineer and Portable Stimulus Technologist with Siemens Digital Industries Software.

“Matthew has been one of the key contributors to the PSS standard,” stated Martin Barnasconi, Accellera Technical Committee Chair. “He has worked tirelessly driving the developments of PSS 2.0 by leading the sub-working group defining semantics of core language features, as well as being heavily involved in three additional PSS sub-working groups. Matthew’s role has been unprecedented: balancing and harmonizing the varied input from multiple contributors to the standard, while also championing its benefits among the user community. It is my pleasure to honor Matthew with the Accellera 2021 Technical Excellence Award for his commitment, expertise, and significant technical contributions to the advancement of the PSS standard.”

The Technical Excellence Award was established to recognize the outstanding achievements of an individual among Accellera’s working group members and their significant contributions to the development of its standards. Matthew was presented with the award at virtual DVCon U.S. 2021. For more information, read the press release.

About the Technical Excellence Award

Accellera Systems Initiative wishes to recognize the outstanding achievements of its working group members by selecting outstanding contributors to our standards development process as recipients of the Accellera Systems Initiative Technical Excellence Award.

This annual award recognizes major contributions to the development of Accellera standards. Examples of such contributions may include leadership in standardization of new technologies, assuring achievement of standards development goals, and identifying opportunities to better serve the needs of the community through standards.

The recipient of the Technical Excellence Award is recognized at DVCon U.S.

Eligibility

Any member of an Accellera Working Group is eligible for the award.

Candidates can be nominated by Working Group chairs and are endorsed and selected by participants of the Accellera Technical Excellence Award Committee, which is a subcommittee of the Technical Committee.

Nominations must include the following information:

• The candidate's name, email address, and affiliation
• Brief description of the specific achievements that justify the award (supporting documents are optional)
• Why those achievements are important to the industry
• Your name, email address, and affiliation

For more information about our awards programs, contact us.

Past Recipients