Pyxis Technology Adds Strategic Advisors to Board of Directors
EDA Visionary Jim Hogan and KLA-Tencor VP & GM Ed Charrier
Add Their Design and Manufacturing Expertise
AUSTIN, Texas, March 4, 2008 -- Pyxis Technology, Inc., an electronic
design automation (EDA) company focused on high performance routing,
announced today that EDA veteran Jim Hogan and KLA-Tencor vice president
and general manager Ed Charrier have joined as advisors to the
company’s board of directors.
Phil Bishop, president and CEO of Pyxis, said "Jim Hogan’s and
Ed Charrier’s experience and knowledge will be invaluable as we
accelerate the deployment of our NexusRoute high-performance,
yield-aware auto-router to leading edge customers designing with 45nm
technologies and beginning the move to sub-45nm designs."
Hogan, who has spent three decades in the semiconductor, EDA and venture
capitalist fields, will join long time colleague Jim Solomon, founder of
Cadence Design Systems, who currently sits on the Pyxis board. Ed Charrier
brings over 20 years experience in software development and management to
his role as a Pyxis board advisor, including 14 years in the semiconductor
industry in lithography and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) software.
The Pyxis NexusRoute integrated circuit (IC) router is unique in the
industry with a new patent-pending architecture and one-pass flow to perform
correct-by-construction optimization of IC performance, power and yield
during the routing process. Customers have seen as much as a 4x improvement
in design closure cycle time with faster design performance, lower power and
up to a 10% increase in predicted yield.
NexusRoute is designed to efficiently solve the problems arising from
the physical effects of 45nm technologies while blending seamlessly into the
standard EDA environments of IC design customers.
"Pyxis has been working hard to address manufacturing variance at 45nm
and below," said Jim Hogan. "They have a unique technology that
delivers best-in-class high performance routing while incorporating the
manufacturing knowledge necessary for sub-45nm designs.
Jim Solomon added, "We are delighted to have Jim Hogan available to help
guide the company. Jim’s experience and connections will be a great
asset to Pyxis as we take the company to the next level. I look forward to
working with Jim to make Pyxis a success."
"KLA-Tencor has been working for some time to better leverage design intent in
the manufacturing process," said Ed Charrier. "We believe Pyxis has
the technology that can change the way design and manufacturing interact. I
look forward to contributing to the success of the Pyxis team."
Jim Hogan is general manager of Vista Ventures Partners. He was general partner
at Telos Venture Partners and senior vice president of business development of
Artisan Components. He also served as senior vice president of business
development and the senior member of the Office of Chief Technologist at Cadence
Design Systems. Mr. Hogan was also a Cadence Executive Fellow and held several
executive positions during his tenure at Cadence. In the semiconductor industry
Mr. Hogan was chief operating officer of Smart Machines, Inc., a semiconductor
equipment automation company, and held management positions at National
Semiconductor and Philips Semiconductor. He holds a B.A. degree in mathematics,
a B.S. degree in computer science and an M.B.A., all from San Jose State
University. Mr. Hogan also serves on the Board of Advisors for the School of
Engineering at San Jose State University.
Ed Charrier is vice president and general manager of the Process Control
Information Division at KLA-Tencor. He has more than 20 years of software
development and software management experience and 14 years in the semiconductor
industry in lithography and DFM software. In his current role at KLA-Tencor, he
is responsible for all standalone software products including DFM, yield, defect,
metrology and bare wafer analysis. Prior to KLA-Tencor, Mr. Charrier was the
Chief Operating Officer of FINLE Technologies, a provider of lithography and DFM
software to the semiconductor industry. FINLE was acquired by KLA-Tencor in
February 2000. Mr. Charrier earned a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from the
University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in management and entrepreneurship from The
University of Texas at Austin.
About Pyxis
Pyxis Technology delivers software and services to address the problems that
chip designers face in the routing of nanometer-scale integrated circuits (ICs)
and systems on a chip (SoCs). Pyxis NexusRoute is a high performance,
yield-driven auto-router, architected for process technologies of 45nm and below.
Based on open industry standard interfaces and easily integrated into existing
design flows, NexusRoute simultaneously optimizes design performance,
ower and yield. Using NexusRoute, customers have seen as much as a 4X
improvement in design closure cycle time with faster circuit performance, lower
power and up to a 10% increase in predicted yield. Pyxis Professional Services
help customers maximize IC yield and manufacturability by leveraging DFM and
yield enhancement approaches within their design environments. Pyxis has offices
in Austin, Texas. For more information, see
www.pyxistech.com
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