D&R Founders

Dr. Gabriele Saucier

Gabriele Saucier, PhD, is an IEEE Fellow scientist who received this distinction for her contributions to electronic design automation (EDA).  Gabriele Saucier started her career as a university professor at Grenoble University where she directed the research of approximately 100 Ph.D. students and published over 350 technical papers in multiple international journals.  After leaving her academic career, she created the first start-up to provide synthesis tools for FPGA-based designs--IST (Innovative Synthesis Technologies). The assets of this startup were acquired in 1996 by U.S. companies (mostly by Xilinx, Inc.) and have since been used by all major FPGA vendors for several decades. Since 1991, Gabriele has organized an annual conference covering hot topics in electronic design.  She founded Design and Reuse in 1997 with Philippe Coeurdevey.  

Philippe Coeurdevey

Philippe Coeurdevey received his MS degree in electronic design from Grenoble INP (Grenoble Institute of Technology). Since the founding of the company in 1997, he has directed the design and operation of the D&R web portal and has been responsible for many of D&R’s product and website innovations.