Industry veterans enlisted as advisors

Xoomsys, a Silicon Valley company focused on offering scalable performance for accurate circuit simulation, has enlisted Dr Abbas El Gamal and Dr Resve Saleh into the company as advisors.

Xoomsys, a Silicon Valley company focused on offering scalable performance for accurate circuit simulation, has enlisted Dr Abbas El Gamal and Dr Resve Saleh into the company as advisors.

Dr El Gamal is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University; Dr Saleh is NSERC/PMC-Sierra chairholder in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia.

"Abbas and Res are highly respected industry veterans and bring a wealth of experience with them", said Anjaneya Thakar, Xoomsys President and CEO.

"Both of them have a proven track record of founding successful companies based on breakthrough technologies, and they have strong research interests in subjects adjacent to Xoomsys' core technology".

"We look forward to an exciting and productive relationship as Xoomsys pushes ahead into the market with its technology and products".

Xoomsys' breakthrough technology enables the partitioning of large tightly coupled circuits and the distribution of resulting partitions for simulation as effectively decoupled problems on multiple independent processors.

The result is scalable performance in accurate circuit simulation using customers' trusted simulators and cost-effective Linux computers.

Results from Xoomsys' first product were presented at the Design Automation Conference earlier this year and the product is currently being beta tested at select customers.

"Xoomsys' distributed processing technology is extremely compelling", said Dr El Gamal.

"Running circuit simulation in a distributed processing environment has been a longstanding problem in the industry, and Xoomsys has harnessed its effective decoupling technology very intelligently".

"I look forward to working with Xoomsys in identifying other applications where this technology can be applied to speed up simulation tasks and expand the business in these areas".

"Very seldom do we see a technological breakthrough that brings fundamental changes to the IC design process", said Dr Saleh.

"Xoomsys' distributed processing technology will have a significant impact on circuit simulation".

"It is now possible to simulate complex and critical circuits in the presence of large amounts of parasitic data".

"This offers tremendous benefits to customers in maximising yields for sub-100nm designs".

"I am excited to be involved with Xoomsys as they continue to build on their technology and extend into other areas of semiconductor design".

Dr El Gamal has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford since 1981 and currently heads the El Gamal Research Group, which is currently involved in digital imaging, network information theory, and FPGA architecture projects.

In 1990 he cofounded Silicon Architects, which was acquired by Synopsys.

While on leave from Stanford from 1984 to 1988, he served as Director of the LSI Logic Research Lab, and then cofounded Actel Corporation where he served as chief scientist.

Dr El Gamal is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ISSCC Technical Programme Committee.

He received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1972; he received his MS in statistics and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1977 and 1978, respectively.

Dr Resve Saleh is currently the NSERC/PMC-Sierra chairholder in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.

He served as conference chair of the International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, and is a fellow of the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia.

He cofounded Simplex Solutions (acquired by Cadence Design Systems), which developed software for the design and verification of integrated circuits.

Before Simplex, Dr Saleh spent nine years as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana.

Before embarking on his academic career, Dr Saleh worked for Mitel Corporation, Toshiba, Tektronix and Nortel.

He holds PhD and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California Berkeley, and a BS degree in electrical engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

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