ProDesign Goes China; ProDesign Names Eastwell Technologies as Distributor in China for Its CHIPit High Speed ASIC Prototyping Systems
MUNICH, Germany & SAN JOSE, Calif. & SHANGHAI, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 23, 2005—
ProDesign, a leading supplier of high-speed ASIC and SoC
verification platforms, announced today that Eastwell Technologies
will be the distribution partner for the company's successful CHIPit
line of high speed ASIC prototyping & emulation system. Eastwell
Technologies will be distributing and supporting CHIPit throughout
China.
"ProDesign gets more and more requests from customers in China and
we see that the Chinese electronic development market is nearly
exploding. To take care of this new market and its customers in the
best way, we have been searching for a partner with strong experience
in the distribution of EDA products and who understands the market of
verification tools," stated Gunnar Scholl, Director Marketing and
Business Development of ProDesign. "With Eastwell, which has also been
the distributor for Mentor Graphics several years, we found the right
partner with a lot of experience in the EDA market. We are quite
impressed with Eastwell's professionalism and their extreme technical
and sales competence. We are very enthusiastic about our new
partnership with Eastwell, and anticipate it will be a long and
successful relationship."
Eastwell's founding member and CEO, Michael Xie, explained, "We
are very impressed with ProDesigns success in Europe and North America
over the last year. The demand for high speed hardware assisted
verification solutions for complex ASIC and SoC design is growing
throughout China. With CHIPit, ProDesign offers the fastest multiple
FPGA ASIC Prototyping solution on the market and meets China's design
verification and software validation needs, especially for
telecommunication and multimedia applications, where you have to
verify your design in highest speed. With ProDesign's expertise in
complex board design, the CHIPit products offer high quality reliable
solutions for FPGA based prototyping systems. We are all very excited
to promote and distribute CHIPit in China and we have confidence in
ProDesign's team and CHIPit to be successful in the Chinese market."
About CHIPit hardware-assisted verification platforms
The CHIPit line provides an integrated set of tools with debug
capabilities that provide a dual solution for hardware and software
verification and validation throughout the project life cycle. Based
on FPGAs, modular CHIPit platforms give design engineers unprecedented
speed and flexibility to validate algorithm performance, verify
hardware implementation, and assist in hardware/software
co-development and co-verification. The CHIPit platforms can handle
capacities up to 10 million ASIC gates and run at system speeds of up
to 200MHz. Over 150 CHIPit systems are installed worldwide at
customers including ST Microelectronics, Philips Semiconductors,
Thomson Multimedia, Sony Semiconductors and many more.
About Eastwell
The privately held company was founded in 1995 and has 16
employees currently, with sales offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou and
Chengdu, and finance operations in Hong Kong. Eastwell Technologies
has more than 10 years of experience as total EDA solution provider in
China's electronic design industry. The company has been the
distributor of BTA, Cadence, VeriBest, Synopsys's Saber, Mentor
Graphics and Silvaco, and the company's dedicated technical support
team can provide various services including pre- and post support,
design follow integration and customization. Eastwell has successfully
developed business in China with over 350 customers in various
industries including ASIC/SOC/IC design, semiconductor device &
process simulation and device modeling, PCB/FPGA design in telecomm,
transportation systems, aviation and space technology, digital TV,
mobile phone.
For more information about Eastwell Technologies, please visit:
http://www.eastwell.com.cn.
About ProDesign
The privately held company was founded in 1981 and has over 80
employees, with various facilities for research, design, and sales in
Germany, France and the U.S. ProDesign has more than twenty-four years
of experience as a service provider and manufacturer in the
electronics industry. The company's products and services include the
CHIPit family of hardware-assisted verification tools to validate
algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation, and assist in
hardware/software co-development and co-verification to reduce the
verification time dramatically.
For more information about the company's prototyping products,
please visit: http://www.uchipit.com.
ProDesign and CHIPit are registered trademarks of ProDesign
Electronics Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks
mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
ProDesign
Gunnar Scholl, +49-8062-808-446
Email Contact
or
VitalCom PR
Joe Basques, 650-366-8212 (PR North America)
Fax: 650-365-4658
Email Contact
www.vitalcompr.com
or
WICKPR & partners
Helga Wick, +49-89-306688-66 (PR Europe)
Fax: +49-89-306688-88
Email Contact
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