Doulos CTO, John Aynsley, is the first recipient of the Accellera Systems Initiative Technical Excellence Award recognising the outstanding achievements John has made to SystemC's standardisation.

"John's contributions to the SystemC language span the full range of the language and have significantly improved the quality of what is now known as IEEE 1666-2011. Because of his longstanding dedication, John has become known as Mr. SystemC and is seen as a great asset to our community" says Accellera Systems Initiative chair, Shishpal Rawat.

Mr SystemC himself is delighted with the award presented at DVCon 2012, commenting "It is a great honor to be recognized by industry peers who participated with me in the OSCI, IEEE and Accellera Systems Initiative standards organisations".

John receiving his award from Accellera's 
Technical Committee Chair Karen Pieper 

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