ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. announced today it expanded its sales operations to Europe.

Micke Wersall and Johan Gardelius have been named European Sales directors. They will be manage all customer accounts in European countries and have responsibility for growing the European customer base for ProPlus’ Giga-scale SPICE simulator, SPICE modeling tools and DFY solutions.

European expansion comes at a time when the new NanoSpice parallel SPICE simulator, NanoSpice Giga, a unique Giga-scale SPICE simulator, and 9812D 1/f Noise Analyzer, the latest generation wafer-level 1/f noise measurement system, are gaining widespread adoption in the U.S. and Asia. All are receiving growing interest in Europe as well.

“European companies are working on leading-edge semiconductor process technologies and products that can benefit from our advanced modeling, simulation and DFY solutions,” remarks Dr. Zhihong Liu, chairman and chief executive officer of ProPlus Design Solutions Inc. “We are increasing our investment in Europe since so much activity and innovation on advanced technology nodes are going on in this region. Micke Wersall and Johan Gardelius are two recognized sales executives who are excellent additions to our operations.”

According to Micke Wersall: “ProPlus’ DFY solutions are critical components to all design and verification flows and I expect European engineers quickly will come to understand the benefits that our DFY solutions can provide for getting their products to market faster.”

“Yield improvement is a recurring theme I hear with all kinds of project teams,” adds Johan Gardelius. “ProPlus is offering DFY solutions that will appeal to a wide range of applications. I’m very delighted to be part of this growing company.”