Summit Design Appoints Dr. Emil Girczyc President and Chief Executive Officer; EDA Veteran Brings Experience to Address Emerging ESL Market
BURLINGTON, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 6, 2004—
Summit Design, Inc., the world leader in electronic
system-level (ESL) design solutions and methodologies, today announced
that Dr. Emil Girczyc has joined the company as president and CEO.
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 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 space."
"Summit has targeted the key opportunity in ESL -- ensuring that
complex embedded system 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 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 (now Nortel), and taught computer and electrical
engineering 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. To learn more,
visit http://www.sd.com.
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