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.
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.