San Jose, Calif. -- February 24, 2004 -- Forte Design Systems, Inc., the
leading provider of software products that enable electronics design at high
level of abstraction today announced that Leslie Landers has joined the
company as vice president of worldwide sales. Ms. Landers has over 20 years
of EDA experience focused on advancing emerging technologies into the
mainstream and supporting customers' technology development.
Ms. Landers recently served as vice president of worldwide sales for
Atrenta, Inc. Prior to Atrenta she held vice president and director level
positions at Xynetix Design Systems, Cadence Design Systems, and Mentor
Graphics.
"Leslie's track record of furthering the adoption of leading edge
technologies and building strong customer relationships will allow Forte to
continue to build a leadership position in behavioral design," said Jacob
Jacobsson, Forte's president and CEO. "Forte is broadening its management
team to proactively deal with rapid growth and to bring its customers
necessary new design methodology through behavioral synthesis."
"Forte's behavioral synthesis technology is a key enabler for design
teams starting to design and verify their ASICs, SoCs, and systems at a high
level of abstraction using SystemC and C++," said Ms. Landers. "I am excited
to be part of Forte's drive to offer design teams an accelerated path to
RTL."
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that enable
design at a higher-level of abstraction. Forte's innovative
behavioral
synthesis technology allows design teams creating complex electronic
systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs to
significantly reduce their overall design and verification time. Forte is
headquartered at 100 Century Center Court, San Jose, CA 95112. For more
information, visit us at
www.ForteDS.com.
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