Summit Design Appoints Dr. Emil Girczyc President and Chief Executive Officer; EDA Veteran Brings Experience to Address Emerging ESL Market.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Summit Design, Inc., the world leader in electronic system-level (ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. ) design solutions and methodologies, today announced that Dr. Emil Girczyc has joined the company as 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. . Emil assumes the role of President and CEO from Charles Hale, Chairman of the Board at Summit Design and former acting CEO for the company. "Emil has demonstrated a consistent ability to formulate creative strategies to address emerging 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. markets and to deliver products that solve customer problems," said Charles Hale. "We are delighted to have Emil lead Summit at a time when ESL and SystemC are experiencing general market acceptance. Under his expert guidance, we expect Summit to capitalize upon its two-year history of profitability and expand its growing user base to encompass an even broader range of companies in the embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. space." "Summit has targeted the key opportunity in ESL -- ensuring that complex embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. designs deliver the desired functionality and performance within the requisite power consumption constraints before proceeding to the time-consuming task of design implementation," said Dr. Girczyc. "Given the tremendous depth of expertise within the Summit team and the excellence of its ESL solutions and methodology, I am very excited about leading Summit at this time of rapid growth in embedded system design complexity." Dr. Girczyc has over 20 years experience in EDA management. Most recently he served as the President and CEO of 0-In Design Automation, and led the company through the market adoption of assertion-based verification. Before joining 0-In, he was VP of Marketing at Cadabra Design Technology, now part of Synopsys. From 1989 to 1997, he held several management positions at Synopsys, where he led the R&D efforts for 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. Compiler and for several new products, including DesignWare, Behavioral Compiler, Cyclone, and most recently served as the VP and GM of simulation. Prior to Synopsys, Dr. Girczyc held positions as Audesyn, Inc., BNR BNR Bulgarian National Radio BNR Banca Nationala a României (National Bank of Romania) BNR Biological Nutrient Removal (sewage treatment) BNR Bell Northern Research BNR Body Not Recovered BNR Big Nerd Ranch (now Nortel), and taught computer and electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. at the University of Alberta and Carleton University. About Summit Design Summit Design is a supplier of industry-leading software solutions that address engineering challenges met during the specification and implementation design phases of complex hardware/software systems. Emerging and established electronics companies worldwide rely upon Summit's ESL solutions to analyze system trade-offs for rapid arrival at an optimized design specification. In turn, companies choose Summit's HDL solutions to ensure swift and successful specification implementation. Summit Design's advanced ESL and HDL solutions help system and SOC companies to deliver products that meet their performance and power targets in less time and with reduced schedule risk. Summit Design is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. with offices throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Israel, and ROA ROA See: Return on assets ROA See: Right of accumulation ROA See return on assets (ROA). . To learn more, visit http://www.sd.com. All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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