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Company overview
S.A. Coupling Wave Solutions (CWS) is a privately held EDA (Electronic Design Automation) company dedicated to the semiconductor market, addressing key analogue signal integrity issues (IR drop, electromigration, digital signal delay, …) occurring in complex integrated systems such as System on Chip (SoC) or System in Package (SiP).
 
CWS proposes a comprehensive and standalone solution dedicated to the successful integration of analogue and RF blocks in complex SoCs and SiPs. This is a real answer to the large amount of first silicon failures in the semiconductor market (61% of SoC, according to Dataquest reports).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dave KUHN, Vice President of Sales and Business Development of North America Dave KUHN
Mr. Kuhn is a sales management and business development professional with over 20 years experience in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. Mr. Kuhn brings to Coupling Wave Solutions his cumulative EDA experiences within three companies and includes managing and directing sales teams, technical support engineers, and value added resellers (VARS).
Mr. Kuhn started his career in the EDA industry working 10 years at Viewlogic Systems holding various positions and increasing sales responsibilities. In the last 10 years he has held Sales Director positions at both Ansoft Corporation and Optimal Corporation, contributing to his management and broad signal integrity background. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
Paul GIBSON, Board Member Paul GIBSON
Paul brings over 25 of experience in the electronics industry to the Board of Coupling Wave Solutions. He has held senior positions in organizations both large and start-up, including Intel, Cadence, Viewlogic, Virage Logic, ES2 and Synchronicity/MatrixOne, during which he has established several products as effective industry standards in the electronic design community. Paul is current Vice President, European Sales for Novas Software.
Paul has Cert. Ed, a BA, and an MSc in Electronics from Southampton University.
Executive team
The company was co-founded end 2004 by 2 experienced entrepreneurs:
Brieuc TURLUCHE, CEO Brieuc TURLUCHE
Brieuc TURLUCHE co-founded Coupling Wave Solutions in 2004 and serves as chief executive officer and chairman. He has extensive experience in senior management within the European electronics and EDA industry, having worked with Viewlogic, and with Ansoft. He has acted as lead investor and director of several high tech start-ups and has driven a number of significant mergers and acquisitions to successful conclusions.
Brieuc joined Ansoft in 1997 and founded Ansoft Europe, where he was a major contributor to the rapid growth and success of the company, establishing the technology as standard.
CWS is the first electronic design automation (EDA) provider to integrate applications to investigate and analyse those sensitive electrical functions affected by electronic "noise" produced by the normal operation of an entire system; digital, analog, and RF.
François CLEMENT, CTO François CLEMENT
François J. R. CLEMENT was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, on June 20, 1965. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. In 1996, he was a visiting scholar with Profs. R. W. Dutton and B. A. Wooley at Stanford University.
In 1997, he joined the founders of Snaketech where he developed the first commercial solution to model cross-talk through silicon substrate ("SubstrateStorm"). After Snaketech successive acquisition by Simplex Solutions and Cadence Design Systems, the tool was renamed by SubstrateStorm and is now part of Cadences software portfolio.
In 2004, François co-founded Coupling Wave Solutions (CWS) where he serves as CTO to leverage the expertise acquired during his time at Simplex Solutions and Cadence Design Systems. His objective is to develop a comprehensive solution to address electrical signal integrity in complex integrated systems combining RF, analog and digital IPs on multi-million gate designs.
François is author and co-author of several conference papers, journal articles, as well as US and European patents.
He is a member of IEEE, ACM and Si2.
Headquarters
The company is based in the Grenoble area (France)