CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

11 August 2004

Company News

AccelChip Inc. Appoints Vin Ratford as President and Chief Executive Officer

AccelChip Inc. announced it has appointed EDA and Semiconductor IP veteran Vin Ratford to serve as the company's president and Chief Executive Officer.

Ratford has served on AccelChip's Board of Directors since 2002. He brings more than 25 years of experience to the position.

Ratford comes to AccelChip from Giga Scale Integration Corporation (Giga Scale ICT), where he served as president and where he will continue on as a director for the company. Prior to this, Ratford was president of deepTECH Consulting Group and has held the positions of vice president of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development for Virage Logic. He has also served as chief operating officer of the Microtec Division of Mentor Graphics and as director of Marketing for Mentor Graphics' System Design Division. In addition, he held numerous positions in Marketing and Sales with the System Test Division of Teradyne.

AccelChip Inc. ( http://www.accelchip.com ) develops and markets a MATLAB®-based algorithmic synthesis environment, intellectual property, and consulting services that enable a top-down DSP design. AccelChip's DSP Design Automation (DDA) solutions link the domain-specific DSP design environment with industry-standard FPGA, ASIC, and structured ASIC design flows and accelerate the DSP design cycle and increase the quality of results.

 

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