Pictured in California at the awards ceremony were Norman Walsh, VP Engineering, Duolog Galway; Randy Smith, Sales, Duolog, San Jose; Dave Murray, CTO, Duolog, Galway, and Emmett Lee, product engineer, Galway.
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Duolog Technologies, a Galway-based company, has this week scooped three awards at a major international technology conference in Anaheim, California.
Duolog develops software tools that enable chip design companies to design their products faster and with fewer bugs. Duolog was exhibiting its products at the 45th annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) — the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions.
A diverse worldwide community representing more than 1,500 organizations attends each year, with approximately 250 leading and emerging companies exhibiting. The “Best of DAC” awards were presented to companies who received the most votes from attendees at the exhibition. Duolog entered three of the six award categories and won awards in all three: It was the overall winner in the Most Interesting First-time Exhibitor’ category; the trendsetter in the ‘Best Overall New Product’ category; and the Trendsetter in the Best Exhibit Floor Demonstration’ category.
Duolog received the ‘Best Overall New Product’ award for Spinner, a tool that is used to manage the input/output paths of complex chip designs. Spinner has been used on over 17 chips to date, including the multimedia processor chip found in the new Nokia N95 smartphone. “Most of the development work for Spinner has been done in Galway”, said Dave Murray, Duolog’s Chief Technology Officer, who works in Duolog’s Galway office at the Galway Technology Centre, Mervue.
“Spinner was created and built in our Galway office by our highly committed and skillful software development team. Spinner was competing with approximately 40 other new products and winning this award was an amazing experience and a great recognition of our innovation and determination.”
This was Duolog’s first time exhibiting at the DAC conference which is the biggest event in this industry. Norman Walsh, VP of Engineering also based in Galway, described the high-pressure environment at the conference:
“We were absolutely run off our feet during the conference with extremely high levels of interest in our products from some of the world’s biggest semiconductor design companies. There were 35 newcomers in the running for ‘Most Interesting First-time Exhibitor’, but we topped the poll,” he said.
Duolog employs over 80 people with headquarters in Dublin and design centres in Galway and in Budapest, Hungary. Duolog also has a US sales office in San Jose, California. More information can be found on Duolog’s website at www.duolog.com