JNTU Hyderabad Selects Teraptor for Teaching System Design Automation

Visakhapatnam, India. - June 16, 2009 - Sankhya Technologies, a software company today announced that JNTU Hyderabad has selected the award winning SANKHYA Teraptor product for teaching embedded system design automation as part of its finishing school syllabus.

Teraptor which won the Lockheed Martin India Innovation award for the year 2008 is an innovative product that enables system developers to quickly convert product speifications from marketing to high performance embedded system designs. Teraptor is ideal for designing consumer electronic devices like mobile phones, set top boxes, mobile internet devices and audio-video appliances.

"We are extremely pleased that hundreds of engineering graduates will now have a chance to learn this cutting edge technology as part of their finishing school program" said Gopi Bulusu, CEO, Sankhya Technologies. "I am sure that in years to come, many of these engineers will go on to create popular consumer electronic devices using system design automation". he added.

Teraptor belongs to a new class of products that are grouped under the term "System Design Automation" for system level design. The world wide market for system design automation is estimated to grow to US $1 to $2 billion within the next 3 years based on estimates from various research firms.

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About Sankhya : Sankhya is a software product company focused on developing software platforms and offering innovative platform driven solutions to industries. Key platforms and solutions include SANKHYA V-One for business process automation for the SMEs, Teraptor for embedded system design automation and Varadhi a middleware solution for distributed computing.
Sankhya's customers represent a broad range of industries including semiconductors and chip design, consumer electronics, software, power plant control, defence electronics and manufacturing.
Sankhya has received several awards and recognitions including the prestigious Lockheed Martin India Innovation Award during the year 2008. Sankhya has received 2 US Patents on its technologies and has several pending patents.
Founded in 1996, Sankhya Technologies is a privately held company with development centers in Chennai and Visakhapatnam, India.

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