Stratosphere Solutions takes flight
-- Test & Measurement World, 4/3/2006 7:18:00 AM
Stratosphere Solutions today announced itself as a semiconductor industry newcomer shipping yield-improvement products that directly address the yield-ramp challenges faced by manufacturers and designers at sub-100-nanometer processes. Simultaneously, it is introducing its StratoPro platform, a combination of silicon intellectual property (IP) and applications that enables design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for yield (DFY) through characterization of process variability.
Stratosphere Solutions was founded in 2004 by Dr. Jim Bordelon, who is chief technology officer, and Prashant Maniar, chief strategy officer. Robert (Bob) Smith is chairman and CEO. Rounding out the executive team is Dr. Amitava Majumdar, director of engineering and architect.
“Our motivation in starting Stratosphere Solutions was to build differentiated technology that meets a focused market demand versus technology in search of a market,” said Maniar. “The industry lacks comprehensive solutions for alleviating yield issues caused by parametric variability, a rapidly growing cause of yield fallout.”
Previously, Dr. Bordelon served as managing director of Testchip division of HPL Technologies, and Maniar served as director of marketing at HPL Technologies. An experienced executive within the EDA industry, Smith was most recently president and CEO of InTime Software and previously VP of marketing and business development at Magma Design Automation. Dr. Majumdar joined Stratosphere Solutions from Sun Microsystems, where he was senior staff engineer and architect.
