InTime Software Targets Complex IC Development
Company To Address Need for Enterprise Engineering Management Software
Cupertino, California - May 8, 2000 - InTime Software, Inc.
today formally announced the company and its strategy for addressing
the challenges of developing complex integrated circuits (ICs). With
$5.5M in private funding from a group led by Haywood Securities
(Vancouver, B.C., Canada), The Angels Forum (Palo Alto, CA), and
individual investors, InTime will provide Enterprise Engineering
Management Software (EEMS) - software tools needed to facilitate
collaborative IC development performed by engineering teams. The
company's first products will be released in the second half of
this year.
Founded in January, 1999 by IC floorplanning tools expert J. George
Janac, the company currently has 28 employees representing 400+ years of
experience in IC design and electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Led
by Janac, President and CEO, InTime's management team includes Arklin Kee,
vice president of business development, and Tom Spyrou, vice president
of engineering. Kee and Spyrou have held senior managerial positions
at large EDA companies in their respective fields (see Executive Team section
below). InTime has recruited a Board of Directors with vast and noteworthy
academic and industry expertise including Richard Newton, Chairman of the
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University
of California, Berkeley.
InTime will offer EEMS tools focused on real-time project management
of complex IC development. Unlike conventional project management approaches,
InTime's technology automatically derives its data from engineering databases
and work processes - mining engineering data much like search engines on
the Web. Based on this automatic analysis, InTime's EEMS tools generate
project information automatically and set workflows, identify problems
and notify team members and project managers. At the heart of its operation,
a unique new "engineering desktop" facilitates collaborative design from
concept to silicon - leading to better and more productive projects that
can realize faster time to market.
"The internet has brought real time data to most of the world and InTime's
goal is to provide the same kind of real time visibility to the engineering
enterprise," stated Janac. "Desktop and data-mining notions are key
technologies we developed from years of experience in RTL design, floorplanning,
timing analysis, and real-world design. Based on this experience, we've
created "data-smart" EEMS tools that help manage the development process
while users continue with their present simulation and synthesis tools.
The new engineering desktop not only helps create and track data, but also
predicts performance and estimates results of tasks not yet completed.
This predictive nature makes for a much more industry knowledgeable, predictable,
flow to silicon. While most systems only analyze, new techniques
allow accurate early prediction of performance. High performance is about
register-balancing at the RTL, logical and physical levels in a simultaneous
manner," Janac added.
InTime's EEMS tools will provide design organizations a new level of
assistance in organizing huge development teams using InTime's automatic
mechanisms. As a result, the company anticipates its tools will enhance
development productivity because engineers will be able to go about their
work while project information is automatically updated through InTime's
data-mining capabilities. Consequently, problems and implications can be
more immediately identified and acted upon in real time.
"While IP and tools have improved time-to-market, the next stage of
making teams more collaborative is to be able to react in real-time, which
is the key to producing larger and faster designs in the future." Janac
concluded.
Executive team
InTime's senior management team brings extensive business and technical
EDA managerial experience to the company.
Janac, who founded the company in 1999, served as CTO of Cadence Design
Systems' Deep Sub-micron Business Unit. Prior to that, he was president
and CEO of High Level Design Systems (HLDS) which was acquired by Cadence
in 1996. Janac has held IC engineering and management positions at
Apple Computer and Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Kee, vice president of business development, joined InTime at its inception.
Prior to joining InTime, he was vice president of Business Development
for Cadence's Deep Sub-micron Business Unit and was vice president of Business
Development for HLDS.
Spyrou, vice president of engineering, was senior director of Static
Timing and Physical Databases at Cadence Design Systems. Spyrou was manager
of Core Timing Technology for Synopsys' PrimeTime and Chip Architect products
and has held other senior management positions at Compass Design Automation
and VLSI Technology.
Board of Directors
InTime's board of directors includes: Janac, as chairman, president
and CEO; Richard Newton, Ph.D., chairman of the Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley; Manfred
Wiesel, Ph.D., Intel Corporation (retired); Ken Keller, Ph.D., vice president
of engineering, Snowball.com; Peter Teshima, chief financial officer,
Cyclone Commerce, Inc.; and Lori Groat, internet services, acting chief
financial officer for InTime Software.
About InTime
InTime Software is an Engineering Enterprise Management Software (EEMS)
company founded in 1999 to facilitate IC and SoC projects from concept
to silicon. InTime is headquartered at 10131 Bubb Road, Cupertino, California
95014, tel: (408) 565-0111, fax: (408) 565-0110,
http://www.intime-online.com.
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