Duolog Technologies Appoints Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Duolog Technologies, the NovaUCD-headquartered Collaborative Design Automation™ company, has appointed Gary J. Johnson as the company’s Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Duolog has appointed Gary, a Silicon Valley veteran, to accelerate sales and expand international markets.

Duolog Technologies is a pioneering developer of groundbreaking EDA tools that enable the flawless and rapid integration of increasingly complex SoC (System on Chip), ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) designs. These tools drastically reduce the risk of costly delays for its clients in their chip integration processes.

Gary Johnson has more than 25 years experience as a highly respected senior executive with leading Silicon Valley technology companies. Johnson has held positions as CEO and President, executive Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, Vice-President of Operations and numerous other senior management roles at companies including Procera Networks Berkeley Software Design, now Wind River Systems, Click Software and Convergent Technologies, now Unisys. Earlier in his career, Johnson worked at Fairchild Semiconductor and Measurex Corporation. Johnson holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University.

Duolog Technologies currently employs 75 people in its headquarters at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at UCD, and its design centres in Galway and Budapest, Hungary.

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9 April 2008

For further information contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, e:: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie, t: (01) 716 3712.

Editors Notes

Duolog Technologies, the Collaborative Design Automation™ company, is a pioneering developer of groundbreaking EDA tools that enable the flawless and rapid integration of today’s increasingly complex SoC, ASIC and FPGA designs. Duolog’s Socrates Chip Integration Platform enables IC designs that are Perfect By Construction™. The world’s leading IP and IC/SoC development companies rely on Duolog tools to automate their chip integration processes – eliminating bugs, shrinking design cycles and drastically reducing the risk of costly delays and respins.

NovaUCD is University College Dublin’s €11 million Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre. NovaUCD is responsible for the commercialisation of intellectual property arising from UCD research and for the development of co-operation with industry and business. NovaUCD as a purpose-built centre also nurtures new technology and knowledge-intensive enterprises. NovaUCD has over 40 incubation units, including bio-incubation units, and provides innovators and entrepreneurs with the necessary support and knowledge to take their ideas from proof of principle to commercial success. Twenty-three knowledge-intensive companies including Duolog Technologies are currently located in NovaUCD. NovaUCD has been funded through a unique public-private partnership that includes AIB Bank, Arthur Cox, Deloitte, Enterprise Ireland, Ericsson, Goodbody Stockbrokers, UCD and Xilinx.