Duolog Technologies Ltd., the leading provider of SoC integration and automation tools, has entered into a distributor agreement with Innotech Corporation for exclusive distribution of Duolog products in Japan. Duolog Technologies is a NovaUCD graduate company. 

The formation of a distributor agreement with Innotech will enable Duolog to meet the increasing demand for its SoC integration and automation tools in the Japanese market. Innotech will also help to accelerate Duolog’s access to new markets such as digital consumer electronics, musical instrumentation and automotive.  Based on the agreement with Duolog, Innotech will provide a dedicated Duolog team, including both sales representatives and Field Applications Engineers (FAEs). 

Duolog will leverage Innotech Corporation’s extensive experience in the distribution and support of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools in the Japanese market.   

Ray Bulger, CEO, Duolog Technologies

“Innotech has a strong reputation and customer base, as well as a proven track record of selling and providing technical support for leading-edge EDA tools from companies such as Cadence Design Systems.  We fully expect that this agreement will lead to additional Duolog customers in Japan and will help us to diversify into new market areas,” said Ray Bulger, CEO of Duolog. 

Innotech General Manager and Director of IC Solutions, Takashi Takahashi, added, “We selected Duolog Technologies as our partner as Duolog has strong expertise in developing robust products to enable the rapid realisation of SoC, MCU and FPGA designs. Duolog’s products enhance an important part of the design flow for Japanese semiconductor and system companies. We would like Japanese customers to adopt and use these integration and automation products in their designs to take full advantage of the many benefits they bring such as greatly improved productivity and communication.”

ENDS

1 September 2009

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

Editors Notes

Duolog Technologies, the Collaborative Design Automation™ Company, is an award-winning 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 and automation platform employs a modular and extensible suite of tools for IO layer definition, IP packaging, connectivity and register management. The Socrates tools, built on the Eclipse platform and supporting the IP-XACT standard, shorten design cycles, reduce costs and greatly improve design quality through their Perfect-By-ConstructionTM methodology.

Since its founding in 1987, INNOTECH has embraced a corporate mission to collaborate and develop businesses with American and European companies, achieving success and accomplishing development goals working in partnership with its clients, through introducing the American and European companies with advanced technology to Japanese semiconductor manufacturers and creating new businesses together. Through its business activities, INNOTECH has built up intimate relationships with leading companies in each industry, and has developed expertise in each business area providing the most suitable product and solution for the client. These comprise the base of INNOTECH's business.