Munich, Germany – October 20th, 2020 – Codasip, the leading supplier of customizable
RISC-V embedded processor IP, announced its new strategic design center today. It is
based in France and the local Codasip team is going to play an important role in the
company's innovation and development plans for the next-generation product IP.


The new Codasip French Design Center started operation in the summer. It is located in
Villeneuve Loubet on the Mediterranean coastline in southeast France, near the technology
park of Sophia Antipolis where major technology companies such as Bosch, NXP, Thales, and
many others have offices. 


“As we are expanding the product portfolio and fostering our technology leadership, we need
talented senior engineers to support the growth,” explained Karel Masařík, CEO of Codasip.
“Sophia Antipolis is an important European location for R&D and technical talent in the
semiconductor industry. We are proud to have hired our French colleagues there, close to
customers. Their expertise will be a great supplement to that of our main R&D Center in the
Czech Republic.”


The newly established Codasip French team is currently focused mainly on product architecture
and verification. The team's leader is Mélaine Facon [https://codasip.com/company#melaine],
an industry professional with rich experience in the semiconductor IP design field. 


“The RISC-V open ISA is revolutionizing the deployment of processors in SoCs by being a neutral
standard independent of any single company,” said Mélaine Facon, Director of the French Design
Center. “We are confident that our team's experience can help respond to the rapidly increasing
demand for RISC-V processors, and we are really looking forward to becoming a part of Codasip
and its RISC-V story.”


The full address of the Codasip French Design Center is available on the Codasip website, section
Contact [https://codasip.com/contact].


About Codasip

Codasip delivers leading-edge processor IP and high-level processor design tools, providing ASIC
designers with all the advantages of the RISC-V open ISA, along with the unique ability to
automatically optimize the processor IP. As founding member of the RISC-V Foundation and a
long-time supplier of LLVM and GNU based processor solutions, Codasip is committed to open
standards for embedded processors. Formed in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany,
Codasip currently has offices in Europe and China, with sales representatives worldwide.