Compaan Design is a Dutch based privately owned company that provides innovative services for accelerating execution of compute-intensive applications. Existing software is accelerated and integrated on specialized high-performance stream-based compute systems. Compaan Design delivers its customers a complete solution that differences in performance, quality, and time-to-market. This is realized through a unique and innovative C-to-Dataflow approach that has been developed over many years at Leiden University and European high-tech R&D programs.

History

Compaan Design is a spin-out from University Leiden, the oldest university from the Netherlands (founded in 1575). The technology of Compaan Design is the result of many years of focused research under the supervision of prof. Ed Deprettere and Dr. Bart Kienhuis. Prof Deprettere is a distinguished IEEE Fellow, who has many years of experience with mapping signal processing applications to hardware. He has supervised many research projects (national and international) in this field and gained an extensive expertise in this area. Dr. Kienhuis has been a researcher at Philips Research and the University of California at Berkeley before he became an assistant professor. Dr. Kienhuis has extensive knowledge on design methodologies for programmable platforms and system level design.