Aptix Names New CEO; Dr. Hamdi El-Sissi joins as CEO.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2004 Aptix Corporation, a leading supplier of pre-silicon prototyping tools and platforms for embedded system-on-chip (SoC) design, announced today that Dr. Hamdi El-Sissi joins the Company as 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. . Dr. El-Sissi was most recently an investment manager focused on IT and communications companies. He succeeds Dr. Amr Mohsen, who resigned in April. "Our goal is to build upon our foundation of customer success in pre-silicon prototyping validation," said Dr. Hamdi El-Sissi, Aptix CEO. "I am excited about this new opportunity, since the demand for validation platforms for embedded SoC design is growing throughout the world, and I believe that the loyal team we have in place at Aptix is prepared to meet the challenges and capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. these opportunities." For the past 4 years, Dr. El-Sissi was involved in investment management in IT and communications at IT Investments, WorldTel, Nile-Online and Arab Internet Corporation (AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. ), acting in various roles including CEO and founder. Dr. El-Sissi has also held senior management positions at Nortel, Fairchild Semiconductor and Phylon Communications. He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, in 1975. About Aptix Aptix Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance pre-silicon prototype (PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. ) solutions to System-on-Chip (SoC) developers, enabling them to accelerate their time-to-market, reduce costs and improve their product performance. Aptix's reconfigurable and portable PSPs enable hardware developers to integrate custom logic and to verify and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. complex SoC designs in a real-world environment and software developers to accelerate the firmware and application software development timeline. In addition, these flexible prototypes can be deployed for field-testing and to multiple customers for evaluation, providing a development head start. Visit Aptix at the Design Automation Conference next month in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. at booth 2214 or on the web at www.aptix.com. Aptix is headquartered at 1249 Innsbruck Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. Notes to editors: A photo is available on request. Aptix and the Aptix logo are registered trademarks of Aptix Corporation. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective holders. |
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