EDA Guru Jim Hogan to join Vayavya board
To bring vast experience and VC focus to Indian start-up
Bangalore / Belgaum March 31, 2015
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) guru Jim Hogan has joined the Board of Directors of Vayavya Labs, an embedded software company. The Belgaum-based start-up specializes in Embedded Software Tools and Design Services.
California-based Jim Hogan, known for EDA industry evangelism, has vast experience across EDA, and semiconductor design & manufacturing and has served on the boards of firms engaged in this field in addition to material science and Information Technology.
Jim has held executive positions in engineering, marketing and operational management at Cadence Design Systems, National Semiconductor Corporation (Texas Instruments) and Phillips Semiconductor (NXP).
Vayavya Labs provides tools and methodology that help System on Chip (SoC) designers to map system application behaviour to optimize SoC designs. This ensures significant savings in effort and costs in SoC design. Vayavya Lab is financially backed by Technology Development Board, an arm of the Indian Government.
Cadence, Synopsys, Ricoh among Vayavya customers
Vayavya counts Cadence and Synopsys, the leading global EDA tool providers, and Ricoh Japan, a leading imaging SoC platform firm among its customers.
"Vayavya Labs researches, develops and promotes Hardware-Software interface specifications for SoC design and provides automation tools and methodology that helps in 10-fold gain on time, cost and effort involved in SoC design.
"The tools and methodology can be integrated with existing design flows and third party EDA tools," says Vayavya founder and CEO RK Patil.
"Jim Hogan's industry experience and direction will significantly enhance Vayavya leadership team's ability to chart new alliances, business models and growth in Electronic System Level (ESL) domain," adds Patil.
"I am excited to be associated with Vayavya Labs, a start-up that is approaching the industry from a Systems Software application point of view. As the SoC design and verification complexities increase, industry must look for new tools and methodologies that are developed ground-up with a deep connect with software," says Jim Hogan, a venture capitalist focused on EDA space.
EDA Guru and Venture Capitalist Jim Hogan
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Vayavya's tools and methodology intersect the domains of hardware design and system software. It addresses EDA, Semiconductor, System Design, and Operating Systems & Tools market," adds Jim Hogan who as managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC plays an active role as a Venture Capitalist.
Vayavya has a 70-member team in its development centres in Bangalore and Belgaum. Other board members are Mr. Parag Naik, Mr. Muthukrishnan Chinnasamy, Dr. Pradip Dutta, Mr Vivek Raghvan and Mr Sharad Sharma.
Vayavya has filed for 8 technology patents in the field of hardware-software interface specifications, SoC Software automation, SoC verification and validation.
About Vayavya Labs
Founded in 2006, Vayavya Labs delivers a high level formal set of design specifications and automation tools that help in bridging the Hardware-Software design flows.
Vayavya's R&D focuses on design and development of Hardware-Software interface specifications and compiler technology to help automate critical components of SoC verification and validation across the simulation, emulation and post silicon design phases of SoC. Through industry alliances and partnerships Vayavya works with leading EDA, Semiconductor & System Design firms to help contribute and propagate industry standards.
Vayavya Labs serves the global SoC and Embedded System Design Level firms with its Belgaum and Bangalore development centres in India and sales offices in Japan and USA.
For more details about the company and its products visit
http://www.vayavyalabs.com/[/b]
More about Jim Hogan
Jim Hogan is currently the managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC. He has over 40 years of experience in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry gaining experience as a senior executive and board director in electronic design automation, intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, material science and IT companies.
Jim was a general partner at Telos Venture Partners and senior vice president of business development at Artisan Components Inc., now part of ARM Holdings PLC.
He held executive engineering, marketing and operational management positions at Cadence Design Systems, National Semiconductor Corporation and Phillips Semiconductor.
Jim holds a B.A. degree in mathematics, a B.S. degree in computer science and an M.B.A. all from San Jose State University. He serves on several private companies' board of directors. Additionally Jim serves as a strategic advisor to several private and public companies.
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To bring vast experience and VC focus to Indian start-up
Bangalore / Belgaum March 31, 2015
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) guru Jim Hogan has joined the Board of Directors of Vayavya Labs, an embedded software company. The Belgaum-based start-up specializes in Embedded Software Tools and Design Services.
California-based Jim Hogan, known for EDA industry evangelism, has vast experience across EDA, and semiconductor design & manufacturing and has served on the boards of firms engaged in this field in addition to material science and Information Technology.
Jim has held executive positions in engineering, marketing and operational management at Cadence Design Systems, National Semiconductor Corporation (Texas Instruments) and Phillips Semiconductor (NXP).
Vayavya Labs provides tools and methodology that help System on Chip (SoC) designers to map system application behaviour to optimize SoC designs. This ensures significant savings in effort and costs in SoC design. Vayavya Lab is financially backed by Technology Development Board, an arm of the Indian Government.
Cadence, Synopsys, Ricoh among Vayavya customers
Vayavya counts Cadence and Synopsys, the leading global EDA tool providers, and Ricoh Japan, a leading imaging SoC platform firm among its customers.
"Vayavya Labs researches, develops and promotes Hardware-Software interface specifications for SoC design and provides automation tools and methodology that helps in 10-fold gain on time, cost and effort involved in SoC design.
"The tools and methodology can be integrated with existing design flows and third party EDA tools," says Vayavya founder and CEO RK Patil.
"Jim Hogan's industry experience and direction will significantly enhance Vayavya leadership team's ability to chart new alliances, business models and growth in Electronic System Level (ESL) domain," adds Patil.
"I am excited to be associated with Vayavya Labs, a start-up that is approaching the industry from a Systems Software application point of view. As the SoC design and verification complexities increase, industry must look for new tools and methodologies that are developed ground-up with a deep connect with software," says Jim Hogan, a venture capitalist focused on EDA space.
EDA Guru and Venture Capitalist Jim Hogan
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Vayavya's tools and methodology intersect the domains of hardware design and system software. It addresses EDA, Semiconductor, System Design, and Operating Systems & Tools market," adds Jim Hogan who as managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC plays an active role as a Venture Capitalist.
Vayavya has a 70-member team in its development centres in Bangalore and Belgaum. Other board members are Mr. Parag Naik, Mr. Muthukrishnan Chinnasamy, Dr. Pradip Dutta, Mr Vivek Raghvan and Mr Sharad Sharma.
Vayavya has filed for 8 technology patents in the field of hardware-software interface specifications, SoC Software automation, SoC verification and validation.
About Vayavya Labs
Founded in 2006, Vayavya Labs delivers a high level formal set of design specifications and automation tools that help in bridging the Hardware-Software design flows.
Vayavya's R&D focuses on design and development of Hardware-Software interface specifications and compiler technology to help automate critical components of SoC verification and validation across the simulation, emulation and post silicon design phases of SoC. Through industry alliances and partnerships Vayavya works with leading EDA, Semiconductor & System Design firms to help contribute and propagate industry standards.
Vayavya Labs serves the global SoC and Embedded System Design Level firms with its Belgaum and Bangalore development centres in India and sales offices in Japan and USA.
For more details about the company and its products visit
http://www.vayavyalabs.com/[/b]
More about Jim Hogan
Jim Hogan is currently the managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC. He has over 40 years of experience in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry gaining experience as a senior executive and board director in electronic design automation, intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, material science and IT companies.
Jim was a general partner at Telos Venture Partners and senior vice president of business development at Artisan Components Inc., now part of ARM Holdings PLC.
He held executive engineering, marketing and operational management positions at Cadence Design Systems, National Semiconductor Corporation and Phillips Semiconductor.
Jim holds a B.A. degree in mathematics, a B.S. degree in computer science and an M.B.A. all from San Jose State University. He serves on several private companies' board of directors. Additionally Jim serves as a strategic advisor to several private and public companies.
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