VaST Adds SVP of Engineering to Paczan's Responsibilities

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VaST, the leader in electronics virtualization, today named CTO Michael Paczan as the senior vice president of engineering. In his role as CTO, Paczan's original charter was to work closely with technologists in industry and academia to align VaST technology and research to meet challenges escalating systems design complexity. In his expanded role, he will take a more direct hand in guiding the development of VaST tools and technologies.

“This added responsibility benefits both VaST and our customers. His extensive experience has ranged from processor design to system architecture, and no one understands the needs of our customer better.”

"As CTO, Michael has already made significant contributions to our product development process," said Alain Labat, president and CEO for VaST. "This added responsibility benefits both VaST and our customers. His extensive experience has ranged from processor design to system architecture, and no one understands the needs of our customer better."

Paczan, formerly with IBM, was the CTO of Power.org since 2005, chairing the technical committee and responsible for managing the organization’s collaborative technical initiatives. He managed IBM's cross-organizational technical contributions to Power.org spanning System on Chip, bus architecture, platform architecture, reference designs, and software initiatives.

"VaST has unique technology and products addressing one of the most acute challenges in electronics design—the concurrent design of hardware and software," Paczan said. "VaST’s combination of cycle accuracy and high performance modeling and simulation technology enable significant improvements and cost reductions to be achieved in the development of embedded systems and help companies address the growing software complexity and shortening development cycles that they are faced with. I am looking forward to expanding our product’s capabilities and significantly impacting the electronics industry."

Prior to his work with Power.org, Paczan was the director of the Sony/Toshiba/IBM (STI) Design Center at IBM working jointly to develop the “CELL” broadband multiprocessor. He also served as co-director of the IBM/Motorola Somerset Design Center developing PowerPC microprocessors.

He holds a Masters in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from United States Naval Academy. Additionally, he has completed graduate work in nuclear engineering and naval reactor plant operations at the Naval Nuclear Power School.

About VaST

VaST drives electronics virtualization. VaST fundamentally changes the electronics industry by breaking the dependency on hardware prototypes. With VaST, electronics companies develop virtual system prototypes—timing-accurate, high-speed simulation models of their electronic systems—for use in design and supply chain enablement. Using virtualization, customers develop software before hardware and enable early software development by ecosystem partners which cuts time-to-market by 8 months or more.

VaST’s customers include worldwide leaders in automotive, consumer, and wireless markets. VaST is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information, visit us at http://www.vastsystems.com/.