Janet Olson

{{short description|Silicon Valley technology executive}}

Janet Olson is a Silicon Valley technology executive and leading contributor to the field of semiconductor Electronic Design Automation (EDA). 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.[https://www.semiconwest.org/speakers/janet-olson "Janet Olson"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008183356/https://www.semiconwest.org/speakers/janet-olson |date=2019-10-08 }}, Semicon West speaker profile She holds 9 U.S. patents. {{cite web|url=https://eoschools.org/person/janet-olson/| website=Equal Opportunity Schools|title=Janet Olson|access-date=June 8, 2025}}

With a focus on logic synthesis, 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. {{cite web|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2160916.2160953| website=ACM Digital Library|title=Synthesis for Advanced Nodes: An Industry Perspective|date=March 25, 2012|access-date=June 8, 2025}}

{{cite web|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3199700.3199747| website=ACM Digital Library|title=Enabling Exact Delay Synthesis|date=November 13, 2017|access-date=June 8, 2025}}

{{cite web|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3130379.3130687| website=ACM Digital Library|title=Logic optimization and synthesis: trends and directions in industry|date=March 27, 2017|access-date=June 8, 2025}}

{{cite web|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8342108| website=IEEE Explore|title=Improvements to Boolean Resynthesis|date=March 2018|access-date=June 8, 2025}}

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

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