People December 7, 2004 [Don't miss breaking news from "The Gourmet Corner" below...]
Summit Design, Inc. announced that Emil Girczyc has been named President and CEO. He takes over for Charles Hale, Chairman of the Board at Summit Design and former acting CEO for the company. Girczyc has 20+ years of experience in EDA management, serving previously as President and CEO at 0-In Design Automation, VP of Marketing at Cadabra Design Technology, in management positions at Synopsys, and positions as Audesyn and BNR (now Nortel). Girczyc also taught Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta and Carleton University. Board Chairman Charles Hale is quoted in the Press Release: "We are delighted to have Emil lead Summit at a time when ESL and SystemC are experiencing general market acceptance. Under his expert guidance, we expect Summit to capitalize upon its history of profitability and expand its growing user base to encompass an even broader range of companies in the embedded systems space." Catalytic Inc. has named Roderick (Rod) O'Reilly as Vice President of Sales. Previously, O’Reilly served as Vice President of Sales at Segue Software. Prior to Segue Software, he was at LightSpeed Semiconductor, Ikos Systems, Automated Images, and Sun Microsystems. Before Sun, O'Reilly was at Daisy Systems and Fairchild Semiconductor. Clearly, this is an individual with a long background in EDA. O'Reilly has a BSEE for the University of New Hampshire at Durham. Jasper Design Automation has named Craig Shirley to be Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Support. Shirley has 17+ years in EDA. Prior to joining Jasper, he was Vice President of North American Sales at Verisity Design. Before joining Verisity, Shirley held management positions at Avanti, Aspect Development, Quickturn Design Systems, Ready Systems Corp., and Viewlogic Systems. He began his career at Intergraph Corp. Shirley has a BSCE from Auburn University in Auburn, AL.
QualCore Logic announced it has expanded its team with additional analog expertise by hiring 50 additional engineers over the past year. The company says its team now has 60+ analog engineers split between a design center in Hyderabad, India, and the QualCore Logic design center and corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The company also says that it plans to expand that headcount to 100 in 2005. Per the Press Release: "The analog engineers have completed more than 30 analog and mixed-signal designs in 2004 and increased the QualCore Logic analog and mixed-signal IP and special I/O portfolio to more than 400 cores." I spoke by phone on December 7th with Company President Mahendra Jain about the announcement. Jain told me, " A lot of analog design work going on today. If you look at it historically, most companies in India – especially, IP companies like ours – have done digital work, but not much analog work. We started to focus however, on analog two years ago, when we acquired an analog team locally, then started one in analog in India." "People are very interested in analog IP, so there was a natural rational for us [in pursuing this course]. It's difficult to find analog talent here in North America, and it's difficult in India as well. So, we hired engineers in India and brought them here to train them alongside our senior analog guys here." "We've developed a range of analog IP over these last several years. Now we have the two teams working – in North American and in India – and they're providing [together] as a good team developing IP on a joint basis." "We've also taken the step of hiring fresh grads here in the U.S. who want to move back to India. However, [no matter where we hire], we need to team up new engineers with experienced engineers and have them learn from real projects. That's the only you way you can build a team, and [through that process] we believe that we now have an extremely credible team."
Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) announced four new members including: 3plus1 Technology, AccelChip Inc., Hantro Products OY, and Synfora. Per the Press Release: "The new members represent a wide variety of markets and product offerings, illustrating the industry-wide acceptance and adoption of OCP."
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced its collaboration with IBM to launch Power.org, which the companies describe as "an open standards community that will help IC designers develop SoCs using the IBM PowerPC Architecture. Power.org is dedicated to promoting the IBM PowerPC Architecture as the preferred open-standard hardware-development platform for electronic systems for markets such as consumer electronics, networking, storage, military and automotive."
Synfora, Inc. is expanding its U.S. sales channel by naming of Design Automation Solutions, Inc. (DASI) as channel partner for the South Central U.S. The companies announced that Scott Spurlin and Doug Peterson will managing the DASI team for Synfora. Simon Napper, CEO of Synfora, is quoted:"[Synfora's] PICO Express has demonstrated that it saves design time and costs in implementing compute-intensive applications in hardware. There are many companies in the South Central region that would benefit from the product."
eASIC Corp. announced that the company was awarded "Top 100 Most Innovative Companies" by Red Herring Inc. Per the Press Release: "The top 100 innovators were selected after a long and rigorous process of evaluating more than 1,200 entries … This award recognizes eASIC’s breakthrough technology in the area of chip customization for which the company holds 11 broad patents."
Synopsys, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has renewed its stock repurchase program last renewed in December 2003. Per the Press Release: "Under the renewed program, the Company may repurchase Synopsys common stock with a market value up to $500 million (not including amounts purchased to date under the program) on the open market. Purchases may be made beginning immediately and ending at such time as the authorized funds are spent or the Company discontinues the program. All purchases shall be made at prevailing prices and will be funded from available working capital. The repurchased shares may be used for ongoing stock issuances, such as for existing employee stock option and stock purchase plans and acquisitions. During fiscal 2004, Synopsys acquired a total of approximately 16.9 million shares, at an average price of approximately $25.02." ****************************************** GOURMET CORNER LATEST NEWS! The Gourmet Corner from September 9, 2004, was right! Freddy Santamaria's in Melbourne where he loves the Asiana Restaurant. 2004 Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards "Gaining the Recognition they Deserve" Sydney, November 22, 2004 "Now in its 11th year, Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards, coordinated by Tucker Seabrook were the first national awards established to specifically acknowledge quality wine lists." "These Australian awards recognize the enormous investment in time, attention to detail, staff training and the funds required by restaurants to achieve excellence in providing their customers with a quality wine list appropriate to their restaurant style and menu." "Australia's Wine List of the Year Awards are a coveted mark of distinction for restaurants of any size or style. They honor devotion to the highest standard of excellence in wine selection." "Australia's Wine List of the Year Awards is judged by a team of 12 wine professionals. The award-winners’ list includes around 300 restaurants of various sizes, styles and cuisine's, from all over Australia, whose wine list has reached a level of quality the judges deem worthy of recommendation." ** 2004 National Winner: ** 2004 State & Territory Winners ** 2004 Category Winners "The awards are established by Tucker Seabrook, Australia oldest importer & distributor of fine wines."
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