European EDA Veteran Joins Topdown's Board; Jeff Dean to Guide Growing European Sales for Simulation Acceleration and IP Protection Products.NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--Electronic design automation software developer Topdown Design See top-down design. Solutions, Inc. today announced that European 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. veteran Jeffrey Dean has become a member of the board of directors. Mr. Dean resides in the U.K. and has over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of experience in European EDA sales and management. He was largely responsible for the establishment and successful growth of the European operations of Logic Modeling Corporation (LMC LMC Large Magellanic Cloud (also see SMC) LMC Library Media Center LMC Lees-McRae College (Banner Elk, NC) LMC Lutheran Medical Center LMC League of Minnesota Cities LMC Local Medical Committee ) and Exemplar Logic, and he served in critical roles in such companies as Silvar-Lisco and Racal-Redac. He was most recently a sales & marketing consultant for European operations at Topdown. "Interest in our simulation acceleration and IP protection products is proving to be quite strong in Europe," said Art Pisani, 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 Topdown. "Jeff's knowledge and understanding of the EDA marketplace in Europe will provide Topdown with added confidence and greater insight as we continue to invest resources for growth overseas. He will be a valuable complement to Topdown's Board." Topdown's outside directors currently include Craig Robbins, former vice president of sales at Gateway Design Automation (developers of the Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. ), and Walter Vines, founder of Model Technology and the chief architect of the ModelSim(R) 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. simulator. About Topdown Design Solutions Topdown develops and markets software tools that serve the design verification and intellectual property (IP) protection requirements of system-on-chip (SoC) electronic designers. The company's products include the CyclopsPro(TM) line of simulation model accelerators and the TopProtect(TM) secure IP generator. The company's headquarters are at: 76 Northeastern Blvd., Suite 40, Nashua, NH 03062 Phone: (603) 886-8811 -- Fax: (603) 880-5353 -- info@topdown.com -- www.topdown.com. TopProtect and CyclopsPro are trademarks of Topdown Design Solutions, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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