CHIPVISION DESIGN SYSTEMS APPOINTS
THOMAS BLAESI AS PRESIDENT AND CEO
Top Low-Power Company Taps Industry Veteran to Guide Next Level of Business Development
Oldenburg, Germany/ San Jose, CA - December, 6, 2006
ChipVision Design Systems, the low-power
specialist in electronic design automation, today announced the appointment of Thomas
F. Blaesi as president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective December 1,
2006. Blaesi brings to ChipVision 20 years of solid electronic design
automation (EDA) and semiconductor industry experience in Silicon Valley and Europe, spanning design, strategic marketing, business
development and corporate management.
“With
his broad understanding of all facets of high-tech and his proven track record
in business development, Thomas Blaesi is ideally positioned to take ChipVision
through its next phase of growth,” said Dr. Wolfgang Nebel, founder, chairman
of the board and chief technology advisor at ChipVision, “As CEO, he will apply
his demonstrated expertise in global business expansion and his strategic
marketing vision so that ChipVision can help leading-edge companies achieve
their productivity goals.”
“ChipVision is uniquely positioned to assist
companies developing mobile communications, networking, consumer and automotive
applications, significantly improving their productivity in power-sensitive
designs,” said Thomas Blaesi. “Our ORINOCO® low-power design
optimization solution helps them achieve substantial power savings and clearly
addresses their need to design chips faster. I am strongly committed to help
these companies make the right decisions up front for their next-generation
design flows.”
Thomas
Blaesi is responsible for leading ChipVision as it expands its worldwide
business. Previously, Blaesi served as vice president of marketing and worldwide
business development at SIGMA-C until its acquisition by Synopsys last quarter.
Earlier, he was vice president of marketing and business development for Pact
XPP Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor maker and IP-licensing company
in Santa Clara, Calif.; vice president of marketing and business development,
and senior vice president and general manager for design services at Silicon
Design Systems Inc., Cupertino, Calif.; director of business development and
director of system-chip design services for Cadence Design Systems. He also
held various management positions at LSI Logic, and was an application engineer
for Valid Logic Systems of Munich. Mr. Blaesi holds a degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany.
About ChipVision Design Systems
ChipVision Design Systems is the
leading supplier of low power system-level electronic design automation (EDA)
software tools and services. ChipVision’s ORINOCO® software enables semiconductor
developers to estimate and optimize the energy dissipation in critical blocks
of their design prior to RTL development. The impact of this electronic system-level (ESL)
approach is significant energy savings in less time. The company’s solutions are based on open
industry standards including SystemCTM. ChipVision is headquartered in Oldenburg, Germany,
and has offices in Munich and San Jose, Calif. For more information about ChipVision and its
products and services, visit www.chipvision.com.
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