Chameleon Systems Appoints New President and CEO.Business Editors SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2002 Chameleon Systems, Inc. today announced the appointment of Peter G. Feist feist also fice n. Chiefly Southern U.S. A small mongrel dog. [Variant of obsolete fist, short for fisting dog, from Middle English fisting, as president and chief executive officer (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. ). "We are privileged to have someone with Peter's proven technological background and business savvy to take the helm at Chameleon Systems at this crucial juncture," said Tim Unger, interim president and CEO of Chameleon. "The recent economic downturn gave us the opportunity to scale and restructure the architecture of our flagship product -- the Reconfigurable Communications Processor (RCP (networking, tool) rcp - (Remote copy) The Unix utility for copying files over Ethernet. Rcp is similar to FTP but uses the hosts.equiv user authentication method. Unix manual page: rcp(1). ) -- to better meet our customers' needs. We now look to Peter to set the company's strategic direction, lead the senior management team, and oversee all aspects of the company's business operations." Feist has over 20 years of senior strategic marketing and executive management experience in the semiconductor industry. Before joining Chameleon Systems, Feist served as the vice president of Worldwide Marketing for Quicklogic Corporation, where he was responsible for strategic product and tactical marketing as well as applications engineering and business development. He was instrumental in streamlining Quicklogic's product offerings, including a transition from a pure FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. play to include SOC devices with programmable logic. Feist spent the four previous years as senior vice president of marketing at Gatefield Corporation (acquired by Actel), focusing on their programmable 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. technology. Feist also spent ten years at LSI Logic, ultimately assuming the role of director of strategic marketing and chair of the marketing counsel. Under his leadership of the international product marketing teams in business analysis and market segmentation studies, LSI created several new business units, including the Telecom and Networking Division. He has an M.S.E.E from the University of Dortmund History Dortmund University was founded in 1968, during the decline of the industrial industry in the Ruhr region. Its establishment was seen as an important move in the economic change (Strukturwandel) from heavy industry to technology. , Germany. "I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to help Chameleon attain its destiny as a worldwide leader in the development and delivery of reconfigurable processing technologies," said Feist. "Having long supported the notion that performance and flexibility are a must for tomorrow's leading-edge streaming data processing systems, I am committed to helping Chameleon achieve its vision of delivering a commercially viable reconfigurable platform that satisfies a broad range of applications." About Chameleon Systems Chameleon Systems, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. developing a very high-performance, streaming data processing (SDP (Session Description Protocol) An IETF protocol that defines a text-based message format for describing a multimedia session. Data such as version number, contact information, broadcast times and audio and video encoding types are included in the message. ) platform for digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). applications. The Chameleon SDP delivers ASIC-like performance and cost and FPGA-like time to market and flexibility. Its multiple-patented parallel computing fabric and high-level development environment provide breakthrough performance and ease of use for data-intensive DSP applications. Chameleon's complete solution enables DSP designers to rapidly optimize their own system, application and algorithm designs directly onto a fast, parallel implementation suitable for product delivery. Visit Chameleon Systems at http://www.chameleonsystems.com. |
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