COMPASS Names New VP of Japan Operations and Strategic Accounts; COMPASS Veteran Joseph Nalewajko to Lead Sales and Support Operations in the United States and Japan.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 1996--COMPASS Design Automation, Inc., a leader in electronic design automation (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. ) tools and libraries for deep submicron design, today announced the promotion of Joseph Nalewajko to vice president of Japan operations and strategic accounts. As vice president of Japan operations, Nalewajko will direct a staff of 10 in overseeing all sales, service and support to COMPASS' customers throughout Japan. In his concurrent role as vice president of strategic accounts, Nalewajko will manage COMPASS' U.S. strategic accounts team in providing its key customers with the tools, libraries and processes needed to enable deep submicron IC (integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for ) and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. (application-specific integrated circuit (hardware) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - (ASIC) An integrated circuit designed to perform a particular function by defining the interconnection of a set of basic circuit building blocks drawn from a library provided by the circuit manufacturer. ) development. Nalewajko was promoted into these new positions from director of worldwide strategic accounts at COMPASS. He will report directly to Dieter Mezger, president. "As a member of COMPASS from its inception in 1991, Joe brings the software knowledge and silicon expertise needed to continue to support COMPASS' key customers," said Mezger. "This knowledge will be instrumental in continuing to expose these companies to COMPASS' advanced technology required for IC and ASIC development beyond 0.35 micron. We look forward to his leadership and valuable contributions as a member of our executive staff." Previously, Nalewajko directed tactical marketing efforts at VLSI Technology VLSI Technology, Inc was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom ICs. The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose, California. as software marketing manager and was director of workstation marketing at Daisy Systems. Nalewajko received his bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Denver Background and rankings The University was founded in 1864 as Colorado Seminary by John Evans, the former Territorial Governor of Colorado, who had been appointed by US President Abraham Lincoln. . He also served in the U.S. military. COMPASS Design Automation is a leading provider of design automation (EDA) tools and libraries for designing deep submicron application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs). The company supplies a complete set of tools for silicon implementation as well as front-end design and provides foundry flexible Passport(TM) and custom ASIC libraries, memory and datapath compilers, and library development tools. COMPASS is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , and develops, markets and sells its products worldwide. More information about COMPASS can be obtained on the World Wide Web by accessing http://www.compass-da.com. -0- Note to Editors: Passport is a trademark of COMPASS Design Automation, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Tsantes & Associates Diane Orr, 408/452-8700 diane@tsantes.com |
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