CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 August 2004
Company News
Industry Leaders Join Xpedion Design Systems
Xpedion Design Systems, the RFIC simulation company, announced that James Hogan, general partner of Telos Venture Partners has joined the board of directors as part of a recently completed strategic investment round. Also investing were John Barr of Buckingham Capital and Atiq Raza. These investors join Xpedion's primary investors Menlo Ventures and Telesoft Partners.
"Traditional design automation solutions are finding it difficult in meeting the increasing complexity of the wireless consumer applications in RF semiconductor design," said Jim Hogan. "Xpedion is successfully addressing these challenges at RFIC companies by enabling them to reduce design time and minimize design iterations through extensive RF design exploration. At Telos we invest in technology companies that solve emerging customer technology challenges, like RFIC design. We also try to find companies that have forged a world-class team to realize the vision. We found both in Xpedion."
"Being an analyst focusing on the EDA industry for the past 10 years, I have been introduced to the problems in semiconductor design and the solutions provided by the EDA vendors," said John Barr. "Xpedion has developed a very innovative simulation technology designed specifically to handle the critical analyses necessary to confidently design today's RFICs. They also have a team with the experience to create value from that technology."
Xpedion delivers an advanced RFIC simulation technology. This enables RFIC designers to analyze their designs at the transistor level faster and more accurately. The benefits are measured in shorter design cycles, reduced silicon spins and more optimized products. Xpedion is a member of the Cadence Connections Program, the Mathworks Partners Program, the Platform Partners Program, and is a Sun Microsystems development partner. Xpedion's products are also available on the Red Hat Linux operating system. Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. is located at 1900 McCarthy, Suite 210, Milpitas, California, USA, 95035. Telephone: 408/449-4000, FAX: 408/449-4030, email: info@xpedion.com , http://www.xpedion.com
James Hogan has worked in the semiconductor industry for over three decades. His experience includes time as a senior executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, and fabrication companies. Immediately prior to joining Telos Venture Partners in 2004, Hogan was senior vice president of business development of Artisan Components. Previously, Hogan was senior vice president of business development and the senior member of the office of chief technologist at Cadence Design Systems. Hogan was a Cadence executive fellow and held several positions at Cadence including president of Cadence Japan, corporate vice president of marketing, and corporate vice president for field operations. Hogan 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. He serves on the Board of Advisors at San Jose State's School of Engineering.
John Barr is senior vice president at Buckingham Capital Management Inc. Prior to joining Buckingham, Barr was a managing director following design technology companies at Robertson Stephens and Needham & Company. He was an institutional investor All-Star in technical software and was ranked by Reuters as leader of one of the top large-cap software teams. He spent 13 years in the EDA industry at Interconnectix, Racal-Redac/ HHB Systems and Calma/Tegas Systems prior to moving to equity research. Barr has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Colgate University.
Atiq Raza is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Foundries Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Raza Foundries). Prior to Foundries Holdings, Raza was president and chief operating officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). At AMD, Raza oversaw the development of AMD's processor roadmap and brought the AMD-K6 and Athlon family of processor products to the market. Raza became part of AMD's management team after the merger with NexGen, Inc. in January 1996, where he was chairman and chief executive officer.
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