New EDA Company to Offer Wireless Design Tools

Several industry professionals have formed Xpedion Design Systems (Santa Clara, CA), a new electronic design automation (EDA) company focused on wireless design and verification for system-on-a-chip designs used in communications applications.

Xpedion's products are targeted at designers involved with commercial and defense wireless communication systems and ICs. The company's design tools offer a reduced design time and improved performance for wireless systems and ICs, and will lead to practical implementation of wireless systems-on-a-chip.

The company's goal is to provide wireless design tools that offer a significant reduction in design cycle time and improved design performance for systems and ICs, leading to practical implementation of systems-on-chip.

Xpedion tools will be compatible with EDA design environments, such as those from OrCAD and Cadence Design Systems and others. The products will provide design flows among and between analog, digital, mixed-signal and high frequency design disciplines. Xpedion's solutions offer designers the ability to do tradeoff analysis at the architectural level when designing with digitally modulated signals such as CDMA, GSM, and 3G standards.

The first products are currently undergoing beta testing with several customers. Xpedion will make its first public showing of its wireless design products at the 1999 International Microwave Symposium, in Anaheim, CA,

Founders and executives of Xpedion include former Mentor Graphics (Willsonville, OR) marketing executive Ravender Goyal, Xpedion principal founder, who serves as president and CEO. Rajvir Singh, co-founder, serves as a director on Xpedion's Board and is a company investor. Xpedion's technical advisory board also includes Raj Mitra, a full professor at Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA), and current director of the Electromagnetic Communications Research Laboratory at the university.

Xpedion is funded by TeleSoft Partners (San Francisco, CA), an institutional venture company focused on telecom industry segment, Redwood Ventures (Los Altos, CA) and individuals in the EDA and wireless communications industry.