Envis Corporation Adds Professors Brayton and Pedram To Its Technical Advisory Board

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Envis Corporation Adds Professors Brayton and Pedram To Its Technical Advisory Board
Low-Power Industry Experts Contribute To Envis’ Technology Development

Santa Clara , Calif. – August 14, 2008 – Envis Corporation, the innovator in automated low-power SoC design solutions, today named Dr. Robert K. Brayton and Dr. Massoud Pedram as the charter members of its Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

Dr. Robert K. Brayton, Cadence Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and recipient of the 2007 Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), is an industry pioneer and one of the world's authorities in logic synthesis and formal verification. Dr. Brayton's seminal contributions to logic synthesis have been critical to the design of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and the development of CAD products that use logic synthesis software. Additionally, he co-developed the Sparse Tableau Approach and the Backward Differentiation Formulas. Their implementation as early Circuit Simulation software influenced SPICE, HSPICE™ and Spectre®. From 1961-1987, Dr. Brayton was employed with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights , N.Y. , where he and his colleagues worked on the Yorktown Silicon Compiler that led to combining synthesis and place and route techniques.

"I am pleased to be joining the Envis TAB to advance the technology for low-power design," stated Prof. Brayton, “and look forward to working with them.”

Dr. Massoud Pedram is a professor and Chair of the Computer Engineering division of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California . His research has received a number of awards including two Best Paper Awards from the International Conference on Computer Design, two Design Automation Conference Best Paper Awards, an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and written four books on various aspects of low power design. Dr. Pedram is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (a.k.a. the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award) (1996).

“I am happy to join the Technical Advisory Board of Envis,” stated Prof. Pedram, “ and work with the Envis engineers to incorporate power awareness and advanced power optimization techniques into the IC design flow .”

A professor at the University of California at Berkeley since 1987, Dr. Brayton is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Brayton has received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Technical Achievement Award, the Circuits and Systems Golden Jubilee Award, the IEEE Millennium Medal and the Emanuel R. Piore Award. He received the Iowa State University Marston Medal, the 2006 European Design Automation Society lifetime achievement award and the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. He has published 10 books and more than 450 papers. Dr. Brayton earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in Ames , Iowa , and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , Mass. Dr. Pedram is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM member and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation. He was a co-founder and general chair of the 1995 International Symposium on Low Power Design. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems and ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. He received the 2000 Distinguished Service Award of ACM - SIGDA. Dr. Pedram was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2000 to 2002, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program of the IEEE CASS for 2003 and 2004, and the CASS VP of Publications in 2005 and 2006. Dr. Pedram is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). He obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California , Berkeley .

"We are delighted to welcome Bob and Massoud to our technical advisory board, and pleased to be working with two of the industry's most respected EDA visionaries," said Hamid Savoj, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Envis.

The Envis Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is made up of low-power luminaries from the academic and commercial worlds. The TAB's purpose is to advise the Envis management team on research trends, provide valued guidance on Envis' technical product development, and educate the market on trends in low power design and implementation.

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Envis helps automatically reduce power consumption in SoC designs, delivering significant competitive, cost, and time to market advantages for applications spanning wireless, consumer, computing, networking, telecommunications, gaming, entertainment, and automotive. Envis was founded in 2006 (as Envision Technology) and is privately held with venture funding from Concept Ventures and Sigma Partners. Please see www.envis.com .

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