CoWare Forms Technical Advisory Board Headed by Chief Scientist Dr. Heinrich Meyr.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2003

Members Selected from Throughout Industry and Academia for

Extensive Experience, Knowledge, Business Acumen

CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software, today announced the formation of its Technical Advisory Board (TAB) to be chaired by Dr. Heinrich Meyr, CoWare's chief scientist. Including Meyr, the Board is comprised of seven well-respected individuals from leading universities and electronics companies.

The TAB will help CoWare with the strategic positioning of new system-level design products and review current and future product development, offering insight into technology trends and potential research collaborations. Board members will also work closely with Karl Van Rompaey, CoWare's chief technology officer, to continue to establish CoWare as an academic and industry technology leader.

Dr. Meyr noted, "This board will be actively involved in assisting CoWare in maintaining and expanding its technology leadership position. Members were carefully selected for their extensive knowledge of the electronics industry, significant positions in the academic and research community, and considerable business acumen."

Members include:

-- Giovanni (Nanni) De Micheli, professor of electrical

engineering and computer science at Stanford University and

recipient of this year's IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award. His

research interests include several aspects of design

technologies for integrated circuits and systems, with

particular emphasis on synthesis, system-level design,

hardware/software co-design and low-power design.

-- Kurt Keutzer, professor of electrical engineering and computer

science at the University of California at Berkeley. Kurt has

spent over a decade researching software support for the

design of application-specific instruction processors (ASIPs)

as well as championing the market trend away from ASICs and

onto ASIPs.

-- Tobias Noll, chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer

Systems Department at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH 

Aachen). Dr. Noll has thirty years of progressive experience

in VLSI architectures, circuits, and design methodologies with

a focus on high-performance, low-power DSP applications and

deep-submicron issues.

-- Masaru Kakimoto, general manager, Embedded Processor Division,

Platform Technology Center, SONY Corporation. A pioneer in the

establishment of SoC system-level design methodologies, Mr.

Kakimoto is responsible for the development and proliferation

of SONY's HW/SW SoC platform design environment. His interests

include top-down design, platform-based design and high-level

synthesis technologies.

-- Yong-en Chen, professor and director of the Institute of

Telecommunications and director of the Design Center of

Communication Software and ASIC at Tongji University in

Shanghai, China. His research interests include system-level

design, hardware/software co-design and protocol stack design

of communications SoCs.

-- Pierre Paulin, director of SoC Platform Automation in the

Central R&D organization of STMicroelectronics. Previously, he

was director of Embedded Systems Technologies for ST in

Grenoble, France. He also managed embedded software tools and

high-level synthesis R&D with BNR, the Nortel Networks

research labs.

About CoWare

CoWare, the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software, is revolutionizing system on chip (SoC) and embedded software development by enabling engineers to create design platforms optimized for specific market requirements. Its software is employed today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies worldwide. For the second year, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal has recognized CoWare as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley. For more information, visit http://www.coware.com.

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