EDA veteran Arnout comes onboard

Elixent has appointed Dr Guido Arnout as a Nonexecutive Director.

Elixent has appointed Dr Guido Arnout as a Nonexecutive Director.

As a pioneer of electronic design automation (EDA) in Silicon Valley for nearly 25 years and a founder of the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), in addition to successful EDA companies such as CoWare and Silvar-Lisco, Dr Arnout brings to Elixent considerable experience in semiconductor business development and high-tech startups.

Dr Arnout is the chairman of CoWare, the leading supplier of system-level EDA, a company he cofounded as CEO in 1996 to develop and market hardware/software codesign tools for systems on silicon.

He is also President and cofounder of OSCI which was created to drive the semiconductor industry towards a unifying language for system-level design and interoperable IP.

As a result of this initiative, the SystemC language is now emerging as an industry standard for hardware verification.

Prior to starting CoWare, Dr Arnout was Senior Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at CrossCheck Technology, a design-for-test EDA startup company.

Before this he was Vice-President of Engineering at Silvar-Lisco, one of the first commercial EDA companies, which he cofounded in 1979.

"Dr Arnout has been a part of the EDA industry from its academic beginnings to the multinational business it is today.

His knowledge and experience is invaluable for our understanding of this community", commented Kenn Lamb, CEO of Elixent.

"The fact that he's joining us shows that he believes reconfigurable technology is now mainstream and that he wants to be associated with a leader in the field".

Dr Arnout commented: "With new approaches to system design, and new platform technologies like Elixent's D-Fabrix, this is an exciting time for the semiconductor industry.

I'm looking forward to applying my experience to the reconfigurable market as it evolves and grows".

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