C Level Design Names Arthur Muller as VP ofOperations; Muller to Oversee Overall Quality...

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SAN JOSE, Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000

C Level Design, Inc., a leading provider of C/C++ design and verification solutions, today announced the appointment of Arthur Muller as vice president of operations and customer satisfaction. Muller will oversee

the company's overall quality assurance (QA) program for tool development and support, as well as ensuring customer success in the application of C Level's products. Muller will also help focus C Level Design's commitment and efforts to improve product quality and customer satisfaction.

Daniel Skilken, president and CEO of C Level noted, "As the chip and system design community continues to embrace the C++ language for their design starts, our customer base has grown dramatically, particularly this past year. We are committed to ensuring the continued success of these customers by creating best-in-class simulation and synthesis tools that support C++ and by delivering additional solutions that will increase designer productivity. In addition, we must maintain the highest standards for application support to help our customers widely apply this new technology. As Muller has an extensive background in customer support, product development, and computer-aided design, he makes an outstanding addition to the C Level management team. He will enable us to bring the highest-quality products to market and ensure that our customers will be able to leverage them to the fullest."

Muller comes to C Level with a strong background in mathematics, programming, software and customer support, and computer aided design. Prior to joining C Level, Muller was director of finite element technology at Visual Kinematics, Inc. in Saratoga, CA, a leading component software supplier to major MCAE software houses. Before this, he served as vice president of customer support at Centric Engineering Systems in Sunnyvale, CA now a part of Ansys, Inc. As one of the founders of Centric, Muller's responsibilities ranged from product development to customer support and international sales.

Earlier, Muller served as a senior engineer at Marc Analysis, now a part of the MacNeal Schwendler Corporation where he was responsible for the development of soil mechanics and electromagnetic simulation software. Previously, he served at Raychem Corporation where he oversaw the development of Raychem's first in-house finite element simulation software. Muller has a Bachelors degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Catholic University in Rio De Janeiro, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

About C Level Design

C Level Design, Inc. was founded in 1997 to develop and market system-level design automation software products for electrical engineers. C Level Design's tools dramatically reduce the time it takes to verify and implement complex electronic systems for the processor, communications and networking markets. The company's products enable engineers to design and verify systems using ANSI C++ for higher simulation performance and design productivity, and then automatically synthesize their designs into RTL HDL code that is compatible with industry standard ASIC and FPGA synthesis tools. For more information, visit: http://www.cleveldesign.com

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