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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. He is an industry pioneer in implementation techniques that have been critical to the design of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). 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 develop advanced power techniques.”

"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 IC visionaries," said Hamid Savoj, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Envis.

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