YEREVAN, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Virage Logic company (U.S), a leader in the development of intellectual property of semi-conductor equipment memory components, in early 2009 moved the activities of its New Jersey office to the Armenian subsidiary whose work volumes have increased by about 20%, while the number of employees has not changed: 120 people work at the subsidiary, NT correspondent was informed by Director of Virage Logic's Yerevan subsidiary Varuzhan Masarajian. In his words, Virage Logic continues implementing joint scientific and research work with international leaders of computer production. One of the latest examples of this cooperation is joint work with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a U.S. company. The implementation of this work is mainly related to further development of STAR Memory System and other memory systems, and Virage Logic carries out this work mostly by efforts of its Yerevan subsidiary. Other examples of cooperation are the recently announced joint activities with international leaders such as IBM, NEC Electronics and other companies. It is noteworthy that in late May Virage Logic launched its biggest university program at Yerevan State University (YSU). Virage Logic's Program on Design and Testing of Giant Scale Integration Electronic Circuits started at the IT Educational and Research Center of YSU, as well as a test room for design and tests of these circuits opened there. Virage Logic has transferred an "internal program" for training: a 2.3 million-dollar intellectual property and software to YSU, and it is now available to students of various Armenian universities.

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