Private investor Jim Hogan serves on the board of directors at a number of industry-leading emerging technology companies. He has worked in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry for 33 years, serving as a senior executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, and fabrication companies. Hogan has held a variety of executive positions at several public companies, including Senior VP of business development at Artisan Components, Senior VP of business development and the senior member of the Office of Chief Technologist at Cadence. A Cadence Executive Fellow, Hogan held multiple key positions at Cadence including President of Cadence Japan, Corporate VP of marketing, and Corporate VP of field operations. Previous to Cadence, he served as CTO of Smart Machines, Inc., a semiconductor equipment automation company, and spent a decade at National Semiconductor and Philips, respectively, where he established device physics laboratories globally. Hogan holds a BA degree in mathematics, a BS degree in computer science and an MBA, all from San Jose State University.
“More and more, electronics companies are recognizing that the quality of results, and productivity of functional verification using conventional simulation methodologies, is falling short,” stated Jim Hogan. “NitroSIM, Liga’s flagship product, is being successfully deployed in graphics processors, networking and broadband digital broadcasting, in both single chip and multi-chip verification efforts, and is enabling simulation scalability to unequaled capacity levels. I am delighted to be able to work with the seasoned executive team at Liga, and my fellow board members, to contribute strategic guidance towards worldwide adoption and deployment of NitroSIM.”
“I am very pleased to welcome Jim Hogan, electronics industry veteran, to Liga’s board of directors,” said Henry Verheyen, president and CEO of Liga Systems. “His vast experience and renowned business acumen further validates our patented hybrid simulation technology, product and market potential. Jim’s strategic guidance, combined together with the cumulative experience and know-how of the other board members, will be instrumental in the company’s deployment strategies.”
About Liga Systems
Liga Systems, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a privately-held EDA company focused on delivering lightning-fast RTL and gate-level simulation to the desktop. The company serves test, verification and IP markets with breakthrough hybrid simulation technology that turbocharges performance at a dramatically reduced cost. Liga Systems’ patented, plug-in VLIW coprocessor leverages existing simulation infrastructure, tackles SoC designs of up to 300 million gates, and eliminates the need to implement designs in hardware accelerators. For details on how to boost the speed of software-based simulation, increase capacity, scale with growing design sizes, reduce overall functional verification costs and benefit from NitroSIM™, a breakthrough simulation solution, please visit: http://www.ligasystems.com.
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