BLUESPEC LANDS EDA INDUSTRY VETERAN AS VP ENGINEERING

-- Former R&D Director at Cadence Design Systems, Sathyam Pattanam, Joins Bluespec Team To Oversee Development of Breakthrough EDA Toolset -

Waltham , Mass. , January 26, 2004 – Bluespec Inc., an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company, today announced the appointment of Sathyam Pattanam to the position of vice president of engineering, responsible for leading Bluespec’s engineering organization.

Pattanam joins Bluespec from Cadence Design Systems, the largest supplier of electronic design technologies, after serving thirteen years in various roles, most recently as R&D Group Director. This hire continues to strengthen Bluespec’s management team as it prepares to introduce the industry’s first SystemVerilog-based EDA toolset for ASIC and FPGA designers that automatically synthesizes RTL implementations from high-level design descriptions.

“Sathyam Pattanam brings demonstrated leadership, strong technical expertise, and a proven ability to deliver high-quality, complex EDA software products,” said Shiv Tasker, Bluespec’s CEO. “Attracting an executive of Sathyam’s caliber says a great deal about Bluespec’s opportunity and momentum. His verification background will help round out our product offering into a full hardware development environment at the design assertion level.”

While R&D director at Cadence, Pattanam managed the Logic Verification Group where he supervised a large team of engineers located in both the United States and India. Pattanam oversaw the development of Cadence’s market leading Incisive™ verification platform, which consists of logic simulators and advanced verification tools for electronics IC and systems design.

Prior to Incisive, Pattanam managed the engineering efforts of Cadence’s NC-Verilog, NC-VHDL, and NCSim digital logic simulators.

Before joining Cadence in 1990, Pattanam worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1985 to 1990. During this period Pattanam developed several state-of-the-art IC layout extraction, verification, and compaction tools that are in use even today.

“Bluespec is on the verge of a very exciting development in the EDA tools industry,” said Pattanam. “By attacking the escalating verification problem at the root of the design cycle, rather than merely enhancing simulation and verification solutions, Bluespec has a huge potential to positively impact the silicon design process. I am thrilled to be a part of the continued development and launch of this groundbreaking product.”

Pattanam received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India.

About Bluespec
Bluespec Inc. manufactures an industry standards-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolset that significantly raises the level of abstraction for hardware design while retaining the ability to automatically synthesize high quality RTL, without compromising speed, power or area. The toolset allows ASIC and FPGA designers to significantly reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. More information can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling 781-250-2200.
    
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