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Synfora Appoints General Manager for Japan
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
Continuing its growth to meet worldwide demand for its innovative high level synthesis tools, Synfora, Inc., has appointed Mike Arai as general manager of its Japan office. Mr. Arai will be responsible for overseeing all of Synfora's sales, marketing, support and business development activities in Japan.
"Japan has been at the fore-front of adopting high level synthesis tools to solve the productivity problem for designing and verifying complex SoCs and FPGAs, and Synfora has seen tremendous growth in the adoption of its PICO C synthesis tools in Japan over the past couple of years," said Synfora president and CEO Simon Napper. "Mike has over 20 years of experience in EDA and synthesis in large companies and start-ups, in both Japan and the USA. Having someone of Mike's caliber running the Japan office will allow us to continue to grow at a rapid pace and to provide optimal support for our Japanese customers."
Mr. Arai was the first employee of Synplicity (News - Alert) KK and built the Japanese market for FPGA synthesis as president of Synplicity KK from 2000 to 2008. Prior to Synplicity KK, he was an executive and head of sales at Mentor Graphics Japan, country manager in Japan for Compass (News - Alert) Design Automation, and worked for a major Japanese trading company, where he focused on introducing US technology start-ups to Japan as well as managing distribution for Gateway Design and synthesis products from Synopsys (News - Alert).
"Synfora's PICO high level synthesis platform enables Japanese companies to extend their technological leadership as designs grow larger and more complex," said Mike Arai. "I look forward to ensuring that our Japanese customers continue to benefit from the PICO design tool's excellent quality of results and productivity gains at the highest level of abstraction."
About Synfora
Synfora, Inc. is the premier provider of high level synthesis tools used to design complex systems-on-chips (SoCs) and FPGAs. Synfora's PICO C Synthesis tool offers designers of large, complex subsystems productivity gains at the highest-level design abstraction and delivers high QoR. Synfora serves customers worldwide in the audio, video, imaging, wireless, and security segments of the integrated circuit (IC) design market. The company's investors are ATA Ventures, Foundation Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Wafra, and Xilinx (News - Alert). For the latest information on Synfora, please visit http://www.synfora.com.
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