Crosspoint Solutions elects Robert N. Blair president & CEO.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 1995--The board of directors of Crosspoint Solutions Inc. announced today that Robert N. Blair had been elected president and chief executive officer of the Santa Clara manufacturer of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Commenting on the announcement, Kazuhiko Nishi, chairman of the Crosspoint Solutions board of directors, said, "We are exceedingly pleased to have Robert Blair join the company at this time of unprecedented opportunity in the field programmable gate array (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. ) market. His extensive background as a pioneer in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) provides an excellent match for Crosspoint Solution's corporate mission, to become the leading innovator and supplier of 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. functionality delivered in a user-programmable technology." Prior to joining Crosspoint Solutions, Blair (52) held senior management positions at LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Corporation where he served in both the United States and Europe over an 11-year period. At LSI, he was a member of the start-up executive team that has been credited with the creation of the gate array market, holding a number of posts including senior vice president, ASIC product division and founding 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 LSI Logic Europe Plc. He is a co-founder of VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. International, serving as the organization's first elected president and CEO. Prior to LSI Logic, Blair held marketing, sales and general management appointments in the USA, UK and Germany at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation; and he held process development engineering positions in the UK with the Marconi Microelectronics Company. He holds an MS degree in Applied Physics from Mid Essex Technical University, and an Honours degree in Physics from the Institute of Physics, London, England. Crosspoint Solutions Inc. was founded in 1989 to develop and market the first Gate Array that is fully user-programmable. The company's FPGAs have compatible architecture, and use the same industry standard 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. (design) tools and libraries as the leading ASIC vendors. Crosspoint Solutions is headquartered at 5000 Old Ironsides Drive, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. -O- Note to editors: Blair resides in San Jose, Calif. CONTACT: Crosspoint Solutions Inc. Michael Levis, 408/988-1584, ext. 203 Alfaro Company Kim Alfaro, 415/563-4769 |
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