April 30, 2013 -- SANTA CLARA, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE)--NanGate, Inc today announced the establishment of local sales and customer support for the Japanese region through Takumi Technology KK. The partnership with Takumi Technology KK extends the existing collaboration with Sagantec to provide standard cell library automation and optimization at the most advanced process nodes.

“Japan remains a key market for NanGate moving forward,” said Alexandre Toniolo, VP of Business Development at NanGate. “The collaboration with Sagantec has significantly strengthened our standard cell library automation for 14nm-20nm. Selecting Takumi Technology for our sales and support activities in Japan will provide a better service to our Japanese customers. The engineers in the Takumi Technology team are experts in the field of layout automation and are already experienced with the Sagantec compaction technology and with the NanGate flow. We’re confident this will be a successful partnership for us and for our customers in Japan.”

Existing and new customers will be serviced by Takumi Technology KK. The contact information can be found below:

Takumi Technology KK
Shin-Yokohama Station BLDG 3F
2-6-13, Shin-Yokohama, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama,
Kanagawa 222-0033, Japan
TEL: +81-45-620-8953
FAX: +81-45-620-8954
Sales:  Email Contact

About NanGate

NanGate, a provider of physical intellectual property(IP) and a leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software, offers tools and services for creation and validation of physical library IP, and analysis and optimization of digital design. NanGate’s suite of solutions includes Library Creator™ Platform, Design Optimizer™ and design services. NanGate's solution enables IC designers to improve performance and power by concurrently optimizing design and libraries. The solution, which complements existing design flows, delivers results that previously could only be achieved with resource intensive custom design techniques.

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