Corporate Overview     About Impulse Accelerated Technologies Corporate Headquarters Kirkland, Washington Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. the private held company was formed in October of 2002. The mission is to serve the needs of embedded systems designers through the development and distribution of software-to-hardware compilation and verification tools. President and CTO David Pellerin is a key architect of advances in language-based design for PLDs and FPGAs, and has published four books on the subject of programmable logic and related technologies. Mr. Pellerin earlier founded Accolade Design Automation™, where he was the architect of the PeakVHDL™ and PeakFPGA™ advanced products for HDL-based FPGA design. CEO Brian Durwood is former Vice President of Tektronix' Maxtek subsidiary, where he developed Marketing and Sales and managed the largest P&L line. From ABEL to Impulse Pellerin and Durwood first met as members of Data I/O's ABEL® project in the 1980's, which become the most widely used commercial tool for PLD design. Other successful products included PLDtest®, VHDL-Direct, FutureDesigner™ and Synario™. Pellerin went on to found Accolade Design Automation and was chief architect of the successful PeakFPGA and PeakVHDL design products. Impulse staff is comprised of other experienced FPGA and embedded systems tools designers, and works with technology affiliates who collectively represent dozens of successful design, synthesis and simulation products. Further Information