News
Jan 1st, 2010
iNoCs Joins EU Project NaNoC
Project to Advance NoC State-of-the-Art
Lausanne, Switzerland (January 1st, 2010) — iNoCs announced today that it has joined the project NaNoC, sponsored by the European Union. The project includes among its members Infineon and Lantiq, Germany; Teklatech, Denmark; Simula, Norway; the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain; the University of Ferrara, Italy. The project is aimed at creating novel NoC design toolchains with superior capabilities in terms of Quality of Service, power management, fault tolerance, physical effect awareness, reconfigurability, virtualization, and integration of heterogeneous cores. More information at the project website.
Jan 26th, 2009
iNoCs Announces Appointment of New CEO
Industry Veteran Massimo Vanzi Joins iNoCs
Lausanne, Switzerland (January 26th, 2009) — iNoCs announced today that Massimo Vanzi has been named Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Massimo replaces Federico Angiolini, who has served as CEO since the company incorporation in 2007. Federico Angiolini will continue his commitment to the iNoCs mission in the position of Vice President of Engineering.
"Massimo Vanzi brings to iNoCs extensive experience in the EDA industry," said Giovanni De Micheli, co-founder of iNoCs and professor at EPFL, Switzerland. "Massimo's leadership skills and expertise in chip design make him the right CEO to lead iNoCs to success, making him the ideal candidate to pursue expansion into markets such as consumer electronics, automotive and telecommunications," added Prof. De Micheli.
"I am very pleased to join iNoCs," said Massimo Vanzi. "iNoCs is a young company with very promising technology and a brilliant future ahead. The founding team of iNoCs is composed of some of the most talented experts in on-chip interconnects from the academia, and I firmly believe that iNoCs products are innovative and can be met with significant industry adoption."
"It is thrilling to welcome Massimo to our company," added Dr. Federico Angiolini, also co-founder of iNoCs, who previously held the CEO position. "Massimo is the right professional to bring our offering and organization to the next level of customer satisfaction. I will be happy to work with him focusing on the continued improvement of our technology as VP of Engineering."
Massimo Vanzi is a highly experienced manager with over 30 years of background in the semiconductor and EDA industries. After earning his Dr. Eng. degree in electronics in 1976 from the University of Genoa (Italy) and his Master’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1979 from Stanford University (California), Massimo worked with Signetics Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., doing research on semiconductor devices, and then joined SGS-Thomson in 1980. From 1980 to 1993 Massimo took several responsibilities in STMicroelectronics including definition, development and support of the unified ASIC design flow and design libraries/PDK environment for the whole ST Group, definition and support of the Corporate ASIC design methodology and realization of several advanced ASIC designs for ST customers. In 1993 Massimo founded Accent S.r.L. with the support of Cadence Design Systems Inc. and STMicroelectronics S.r.l. In Accent Massimo had the role of General Manager from 1994 to 2005, transforming a small startup of five engineers into the leader IC design and fabless ASIC Company in Europe and one of top 20 in the world. In early 2006 Massimo completed an LBO process while becoming CEO and shareholder of the new Accent S.p.A.
In October 2008 Massimo left Accent International SA, while remaining shareholder of the company and started his own business on advising and supporting high-tech startups and SME’s to define their own company and product strategy. Massimo is also co-founder and shareholder of Genova High Tech and member of the Italian Angels for Growth organization to support birth of innovative high-tech startups in Italy.
iNoCs - Structured Interconnects
iNoCs provides developers of advanced chips based on the integration of heterogeneous cores with the most innovative combination of tools and IP for the automatic synthesis of on-chip interconnects. iNoCs's offering allows customers to achieve interconnect design closure in state-of-the-art and future lithography processes, improving product performance and time-to-market. iNoCs is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. More information at www.inocs.com or at enquiries@inocs.com.
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May 7th, 2008
Venture 08, Zuerich, Switzerland
iNoCs is selected among the Top 20 start-ups in Switzerland by the Venture 08 panel based on its business plan. Venture 08 is a business competition sponsored by McKinsey and ETHZ, Switzerland.
Jan 24th, 2008
Venture Kick, Bern, Switzerland
iNoCs is selected as a winner of the second round of Venture Kick, a start-up incentive program where start-ups are offered prize money and coaching by a team of experts.
Jun 12th-22nd, 2007
Venture Leaders, Boston, MA, USA
iNoCs is selected out of about 100 projects as one of only 20 Swiss start-ups eligible for free a ten-day business coaching stage at Babson College in Boston.