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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 25 June 2009

SAN JOSE, CA and BANGALORE, INDIA – Magma Design Automation Inc. named Vivek Raghavan managing director of the company’s operations in India. He will report to Roy Jewell, president and COO.

Raghavan joined Magma in 2004 when it acquired Mojave Design, where he was the co-founder and CEO. He has also held senior engineering management positions with Synopsys and Avant Corp.

In addition to his position, Raghavan will continue to serve as vice president of Magma’s custom design business unit, where he oversees the development of physical verification products.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 24 June 2009

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Peter Franaszek will receive the 2009 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal June 25 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony.

The award recognizes Franaszek’s work in run-length constrained channel coding for magnetic and optical storage. The technology is used in digital recording and communications systems. It puts limitations on the sequence of data streams, allowing clock synchronization and fast data synchronization.

Franaszek research focused on determining fundamental aspects of constrained codes and developing algorithms for construction. He was the first to develop practical methods for run-length limited codes.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 24 June 2009

ATLANTA – Intercept Technology Inc. introduces the Xtent Technology Rules Editor, available in version 4.0 Mozaix and 6.0 Pantheon.

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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 23 June 2009

MILPITAS, CA – Eli Harari, co-founder, chairman and CEO of SanDisk Corp., will be presented with the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal at the IEEE Honors Ceremony on June 25.

The award recognizes his innovation of flash memory technology, industry leadership and contributions to the proliferation of flash memory devices.

Harari was instrumental in the transition from NOR-based to NAND-based flash memory and the invention and development of multilevel cell data storage. He led his company in the invention of flash card storage cards and pioneered USB flash drives.

He holds over 100 US and foreign patents and has authored numerous technical publications.

SAN JOSE, CA – Mentor Graphics has appointed EDA Direct Inc. as its distributor in the San Francisco Bay area.

HILLSBORO, OR – Eric Bogatin of Bogatin Enterprises will present two signal integrity classes this summer.

“Essential Principles of Signal Integrity” (EPSI) will be held August 11 to 12. It will focus on building a strong intuitive foundation by discussing paramount signal integrity problems, identifying the root causes and finding the solutions.

“Advanced Signal Integrity Design” (ASID) will take place August 13 to 14. The class will discuss analysis techniques to gain confidence in signal integrity design for electronic systems with clocks under 1 GHz.

He will also present a free webinar, “Link Analysis with Return Path Discontinuities,” on July 7.

For more information on classes, visit: http://www.bethesignal.net/bogatin/index.php.