Jim Venable is a 25 year veteran of the semiconductor and semiconductor IP industry. He has a long history of bringing game-changing technologies to market. In the early years he participated in the formation of what became known as the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry by working on one of the very first commercially available circuit simulation and schematic capture programs. He later forged alliances with industry leaders to bring to market a new CPU architectures into the market. He continued his alliance efforts by forming an industry-first third party program for tools to design products with emerging CPU technologies. More recently, Mr. Venable has been forming relationships between industry giants to develop and support a new memory interface architecture. These companies came together to form a new consortium chartered with making Serial Port Memory Technology an open industry standard enabling a new generation of mobile devices. Mr. Venable was appointed president of SPMT, LLC the entity responsible for managing the licensing, promotion, and administration of the SPMT specification.