Dr. Tzeng brings over 18 years of EDA experience with him to Atoptech. Dr. Tzeng was one of the original developers of ArcCellXO, developed at ArcSys in 1992. He was the key architect in the evolution of ArcCell to the industry known place and route systems Aquarius, Apollo and Astro. Dr. Tzeng continued to work and enhance his routing technology at ArcSys, Avant! and Synopsys (ArcSys formed Avant!, Avant! was aquired by Synsopsy in 2002). He holds the prestigious honor of Avant! Fellow and Synopsys Fellow. Prior to ArcSys, he held positions at Cadence Design and Quickturn Design Systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. computer science from U.C., Berkeley.
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Dr. Ping San Tzeng
president and chief technology officer
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Kaiwin Lee
chief operating officer
Prior to co-founding
ATopTech with Dr. Tsou, Dr. Lee held various senior technical management
positions at Arcsys, Avant!, Synopsys and Tera Systems between 1992 - 2002 and Intel between 1989 - 1992. While at Arcsys, Dr. Lee was one
of the original designers/architect who built and designed the core
algorithms for ArcCell, the leading place and route solution of its
time. Dr. Lee has been awarded a U.S. Patent for inventing the industry-first
automatic data preparation/extraction algorithm for place and route
and shrank the data preparation time from weeks to minutes. While at
Avant! (acquired by Synopsys 2002), Dr. Lee led a team to develop the
market leading physical design planner, Planet/Jupiter. After Avant!,
Dr. Lee joined Tera Systems in 1997, as Sr. Software Engineer and then
later VP of engineering, he lead a team to develop the first RTL design
planner (TeraForm). He holds a B.S. in physics from National Taiwan
University, a M.S. in Applied Physics from Yale University and a Ph.D.
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Eric Thune
vice president sales and marketing
Mr. Thune joined ATopTech in 2006, bringing over 20 years of sales and
design engineering experience to ATopTech. Prior to ATopTech he was Director,
Western Area Sales for Apache Design Solutions where he was responsible
for west coast sales and managing the application engineering support team.
Before joining Apache, he held various sales positions for I2Technologies,
Synchronicity, Simplex, Synopsys and Texas Instruments. Mr. Thune entered
into sales after several years in engineering at Texas Instruments, Metaflow
Technologies and Optigraphics Corp. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
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Eddie Araki
president, ATopTech KK
Mr. Araki joined Atoptech in 2006, bringing 30 years of experience in working
with Japanese distributors and US-based software vendors. Mr. Araki has
held various managerial and sales positions throughout his career, with an
emphasis in Asia, specifically Japan. Prior to joining AtopTech, he held
positions as Nihon Synopsys, as a Japan Area Sales Director; Magma
Design Automation Co., Ltd. ; Maingate Electronics; Design Solution Co,;
INNOTECH Corporation as well as, Seiko Instruments, and Marubeni
Electronics Co. He holds B.S. in Physics from Kwansei Gakuin University,
Nishinomiya Hyogo Pref, Japan. |
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