The silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Evatronix, announced Carsten Elgert accepted the position as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Evatronix. Elgert comes from Mentor Graphics, where he served as European Marketing Director over the last 6 years. Before that he served at Mentor as the European systems solutions manager.

Since the spin-off from Intergraph Elgert was the managing director of VeriBest in Central Europe, until its acquisition by Mentor. Before that he gathered his sales and marketing experience in sales and management positions at Intergraph electronics, Cadence, SES and Caeco. After obtaining his EE degree from the University of Karlsruhe in 1983 he honed his technical skills as an application engineer and AE manager at EDA pioneer Daisy Systems.

Evatronix, founded in 1991 in Poland, develops electronic virtual components (IP cores) along with complementary software and supporting development environments. The company also provides electronic design services. Product lines cover a multitude of solutions from interface controllers and microprocessors to integrated System-on-Chip development platforms.