AccelChip Appoints Rick Carlson as Vice President of Worldwide Sales.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers AccelChip, Inc., the leading provider of high-level synthesis tools for DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive design, today announced the appointment of Rick Carlson as vice president of Worldwide Sales. Carlson was most recently vice president of Worldwide Sales at Averant, Inc. "We are thrilled to have Rick join our executive team," remarked Dan Ganousis, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AccelChip. "Rick is an EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. veteran and consummate executive who rounds out our management team with the sales skills we need to establish AccelChip as the industry's leading provider of behavioral synthesis tools for DSP design. Rick has the experience and skills necessary to quickly establish a worldwide sales channel to service the strong interest we've seen in our first product, AccelFPGA." Prior to AccelChip and Averant, Carlson was the vice president of Worldwide Sales at Synplicity from 1995 - 1999 where he established their successful US and international sales channels. Carlson has also held executive and sales management positions with Escalade es·ca·lade n. The act of scaling a fortified wall or rampart. [French, from Italian scalata, ultimately from Latin sc , Globetrotter, EDA Systems, Daisy Systems, Mentor Graphics and Calma. Carlson was a founder of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC EDAC - error detection and correction ) and holds a B.S. Mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). . "AccelChip is the only company that recognized the need for behavioral synthesis of the MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) A programming language for technical computing from The MathWorks, Natick, MA (www.mathworks.com). Used for a wide variety of scientific and engineering calculations, especially for automatic control and signal processing, MATLAB runs on Windows, Mac and (R) language in the DSP design process," commented Rick Carlson. "This is an outstanding opportunity for me - we have a unique product that solves a real problem in a fast growing market, and a company managed by a team of seasoned executives - all the ingredients required for success in the EDA market." Mike Liddell, previously vice president of Sales and Business Development at AccelChip, remains with the company as vice president of Business Development. About AccelChip, Inc. AccelChip develops and markets high-level synthesis tools that accelerate the process of chip design. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered at 999 Plaza Drive, Suite 340, Schaumburg, IL. For more information call (847) 995-9517 or visit www.accelchip.com. Editors For more information, contact: Patricia Hinsley, AccelChip, Inc., (847) 995-9517 ext. 244, patricia@accelchip.com All trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2002, AccelChip, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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