Jim Robinson
Vice President of Corporate Applications

Jim Robinson joined Synplicity in July 1997 and has served as Vice President of Corporate Applications since May 2005. In this role, Mr. Robinson is responsible for overseeing Synplicity's Corporate Applications organization and the Development organizations for the ASIC Verification and FPGA Debug product lines. He is also responsible for Synplicity’s Technical Support Organization that, since 2004, has achieved high user satisfaction ratings in the EETimes Annual Electronic Design Automation Branding Study.

When Mr. Robinson joined Synplicity in 1997 he was the third employee in the Corporate Applications Engineering Department and since that time has held positions at all levels of the organization. In 2000, Mr. Robinson relocated to India where he successfully established, and managed, Synplicity Software India Pvt. Ltd. After returning from India, he was promoted to Director of Corporate Applications responsible for FPGA and Prototyping products.

Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Robinson held positions as a Design Engineer/Project Lead at Intel in Hillsboro Oregon where he was responsible for design and verification of x86 Microprocessor based Single Board Computers. Following Intel, he worked as a Field Applications Engineer for QuickTurn Design Systems supporting their FPGA based emulator products supporting customers in Silicon Valley and Asia.