April 16, 2008 -- MunEDA, the leading IC design analysis and optimization solutions provider ( www.muneda.com), and SAROS Technology Ltd. ( www.saros.co.uk) have closed a distribution agreement for United Kingdom and Ireland to deliver this highly innovative and prospering IC design and semiconductor market with MunEDA products.
"We are very excited to be partnering with MunEDA, the worldwide leading supplier of front-end level design analysis and optimization tools for DFM and DFY", stated Carey Sayer, Co-Founder and Managing Director of SAROS. "MunEDA´s highly developed and powerful tools and methodologies for integrated circuit design analysis and optimization are an excellent fit into the sophisticated & innovation-driven UK and Irish design communities. We believe MunEDA´s tool suite WiCkeD fits ideally into our existing product portfolio and will be of great interest to our installed customer base."
"SAROS is the ideal partner for us to introduce our products and services to the prospering, and highly innovative, United Kingdom and Irish IC design marketplaces", stated Andreas Ripp, Vice President Sales & Marketing MunEDA. "Founded in 1992, SAROS´ has an in depth understanding and knowledge of the design oriented UK semiconductor marketplace. We believe SAROS´ highly experienced sales and technical support capabilities will allow us to successfully bring MunEDA products to our common customers. We are very much looking forward to cooperating with our new colleagues from SAROS."
SAROS and MunEDA furthermore will present and exhibit at NMI Analogue and Mixed-Signal Technical Network Event by National Microelectronics Institute on Tuesday April 29, 2008, in Swindon, UK. SAROS is official sponsor of this NMI event.
Find more information for NMI workshop here:
http://www.nmi.org.uk/events/AMS_29042008.htm.
About SAROS Technology Ltd
SAROS Technology Ltd was founded in 1992 as a specialist EDA distributor serving the UK & Irish markets with focus on the provision of HDL and Custom IC design tools, semiconductor IP, and offer the technical support infrastructure to ensure their successful adoption by our customers. Since 1992 the VHDL and Verilog hardware description languages have become the industry standard for designing all types of FPGAs and ASICs and Saros remains at the forefront of this technology. SAROS distributes leading EDA and IP vendors including Mentor Graphics, Averant, ProDesign, Catalytic, CAST, and MunEDA. With offices in Wallingford, Oxfordshire and Letchworth, Hertfordshire, we are well placed to serve the needs of the UK & Irish IC design communities. For information about SAROS visit the SAROS web site at www.saros.co.uk.
About MunEDA
Founded in 2001, MunEDA provides leading EDA technology for analysis and optimization of yield and performance of analog, mixed-signal and digital designs. MunEDA´s products and solutions enable customers to reduce the design times of their circuits and to maximize robustness and yield. MunEDA´s solutions are in industrial use by leading semiconductor companies in the areas of communication, computer, memories, automotive, and consumer electronics. WiCkeDTM is a comprehensive and powerful software tool suite for manual, semi- and full automatic analysis and yield optimization of analog, mixed signal and digital circuits. WiCkeDTM is marketed also under the trademark DesignMDTM. MunEDA has offices in Munich, Germany (Headquarter) and Sunnyvale, California, USA (MunEDA Inc.). MunEDA is represented by leading EDA distribution companies worldwide in USA, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Scandinavia, and others. Please refer to MunEDA Contacts.