Press Release
Target Compiler Technologies expands management team
Leuven, Belgium - January 7, 2008 – Target Compiler Technologies (www.retarget.com), the leader in application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) design tools, announced today that the company recruited Mr. Jeroen De Lille as its new Vice President of sales and marketing. The expansion is driven by the increased customer base and the growing demand in the market for proven tools that speed the design, programming, and verification of custom processor cores. Such processor cores are used in applications ranging from wireless and wired communications to mobile/personal electronics to multimedia and gaming.
“We have been looking to reinforce or sales capacity for some time,” said Gert Goossens, co-founder and CEO of Target. “Target has a growing number of customers in Europe, North America and Asia. In order to better serve these customers and help us grow the business, we needed to find the right people. Last year we engaged Steve Cox to develop our business in North America. Now, Jeroen’s extensive sales and marketing experience will help us grow our presence in the rest of the world.”
Target’s tools and services are used by processor design teams to design, program, and verify custom processor cores. Such cores are typically used to offload computationally intensive algorithms from an existing embedded processor. Alternatively, such cores can be deployed in place of hardwired logic, providing software programmable “wiggle room” later in the design process to address algorithmic changes or functional defects. “There’s a high demand for special-purpose processors in the marketplace,” said Jeroen De Lille. “Consumers are demanding more than ever devices that have more performance and consume less power than before. New products are brought to market fast to stay ahead of the competition. General-purpose processors are too costly in terms of power consumption and price, so designers are turning to configurable processors or ASIPs as a way to deliver the needed performance while meeting aggressive schedule, cost and power constraints. Target’s proven product offering gives them the tools to achieve this.”
Jeroen De Lille is a veteran of the computer and communications market. From 1981 till 1991 he was a Systems Architect and principal engineer at the European research & development center of Wang Laboratories Inc., focusing on data communication protocols.
He joined Dialogic Telecom Europe in 1991 where he was a key contributor to the success of the company in EMEA. In 2000 Dialogic was acquired by Intel and Jeroen became Market Development Manager with EMEA wide responsibility for all signaling and media products of the Intel modular communication platform division. Jeroen also is professor International Marketing at the MBA business school UBI in Brussels, Belgium.
About Target Compiler Technologies
Target Compiler Technologies is the leading provider of retargetable software tools to accelerate the design, programming and verification of flexible processor cores, from embedded processors to programmable ASICs. Target’s Chess/Checkers tool suite has been applied by customers worldwide to design application-specific processors (ASIPs) for diverse application domains, including GSM and WCDMA handsets, VoIP, audio coding, car infotainment, ADSL and VDSL modems, wireless LAN, hearing instruments, mobile image processing and various control and interfacing applications. Target is a spin-off of IMEC and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. For more information about Target Compiler Technologies, visit www.retarget.com.
Contact information
Target Compiler Technologies
Jeroen De Lille
VP Sales and Marketing
Technologielaan 11-0002
B-3001 Leuven, Belgium P
Phone: +32-16-38 10 47
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