Nimbic, Inc. announced that Keith Morton, EDA sales veteran, has joined its management team as vice president of worldwide sales. Keith will report directly to Nimbic CEO Raul Camposano. Keith has over 20 years of experience in EDA sales and marketing. He was most recently VP Global Accounts at Magma Design Automation where he spent eight years in various sales and sales management roles.

Nimbic, Inc. announced that Jim Hogan, semiconductor design and EDA industry veteran, has joined its board of directors. Jim Hogan has worked in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry for more than 33 years, serving as a senior executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, and fabrication companies. Hogan currently serves as chairman at Solido Design Automation and as director at Scoperta and Tela Innovations.

Physware, Inc. announced the open beta launch of nCloud, the first scalable and secure cloud computing platform for electronic design automation (EDA). Effective immediately, nWave, the leading 3D full-wave EM solver for signal and power integrity (formerly PhysWAVE), and nApex, the leading 3D accelerated parasitic extractor (formerly PhysAPEX), are available on nCloud. nCloud offers multiple advantages: On-demand provisioning of computing resources in minutes, with virtually unlimited scalability. A highly secure compute platform. Resources to exploit parallelism at the tool and at the design-methodology level. An easy-to-use design environment with pre-installed and ready-to-run design tools. Reduced need for on-premises hardware IT infrastructure. Reduced need for upfront purchase of EDA licenses. A cost-effective pay-for-use and pay-as-you-go software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. For many customers, security in the cloud remains a real concern. To address this issue, Nimbic built its architecture with security across multiple layers, including security of data in transit, security of data at rest and security through the use of isolation techniques.