Subsidiary in Vanadzor December 06, 2011

On December 6, 2011 Instigate CJSC registered its subsidiary in Vanadzor. Assisted by the State Engineering University of Armenia, Instigate Training Center had conducted training courses for 9 students and graduates of SEUA since November 2010. All students successfully completed the training program and became the first employees of our Vanadzor subsidiary. During their study and practice at Instigate Training Center the team has already completed one project - building School Library Management System for Armenia's ministry of education. The system has been installed in more than 100 schools of Yerevan and regions of Armenia.

Digitec Expo October 7-9, 2011

Instigate participated in Digitec Expo 2011. We demonstrated our developed real-life applications running on modern embedded, mobile and tablet platforms, case studies of software parallelization and acceleration using NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream technologies, software tools for office automation. "Instigate Training Center" and its training courses over the Armenia (Yerevan, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Stepenakert) were introduced to students and all interested visitors.

Partnership with Froglogic September 29, 2011

Instigate entered into partnership with Froglogic. We offer training, consulting and services for Froglogic products in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

DAC June 5-9, 2011

Instigate participated in DAC 2011 organized in San Diego, CA. This time we demonstrated our products and solutions for Semiconductor and Embedded industry.

Application for Tert.am May 20, 2011

Instigate is pleased to announce the successful release of an iPhone application developed for Tert.am news agency. By downloading this easy-to-use application as big as 430 KB the readers of Tert.am will now be able to read the news on their iPhones. In addition to quicker access this application provides options for getting the preferred type of news. It can be freely downloaded from App Store.

GNU/Linux InstallFest Armenia May 7-21, 2011

Instigate Training Center and Zharang NGO, supported by other individuals, initiated GNU/Linux InstallFest on May 7, 2011. The Fest was conducted in Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor. Another InstallFest was held in Stepanakert on May 21. During the event GNU/Linux operating system, its distributives and program packages used in the system were presented to the participants. The number of participants in all four cities totaled 140. Different distributives of GNU/Linux were installed on about 30 machines. Some of the participants were instructed how to install since they had chosen to take the install disks and try installing on their own.

Subsidiary in Artsakh May 20, 2011

On May 20 Instigate CJSC registered its subsidiary in Stepanakert: Instigate Systems LLC. Assisted by the Ministry of Economic Development of Artsakh, Instigate Training Center had conducted training courses for 7 students and graduates of Artsakh State University since November 2010. They successfully graduated the course in April 2011 and are ready to be the first employees of the newly founded Instigate Systems engineering center. Instigate Systems will provide automation solutions for the local market.

Digitec Expo October 29-31, 2010

Instigate participated in Digitec Expo 2010. We demonstrated real-life applications using NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream technologies, software tools for office automation, "Instigate Training Center" program, Arax operating system.

New release of Arax OS October, 2010

Arax is an Armenian operating system based on the famous GNU/Linux OS, and is available for free use and distribution. It was presented in the Digitec Expo 2010 exhibition.

New representative in Europe August 2010

Instigate acquired a new partner in Europe: Conintec represents Instigate's business interests in Europe and Asia.

DAC June 13-18 2010

Instigate participated in DAC 2010 organized in Convention Center, Anaheim, CA. We demonstrated Instigate Application Framework and presented our services.

Digitec Business Forum June 9-10, 2010

Instigate participated in Digitec Business Forum 2010. We had a session presenting cost-effective solutions for office work automation in local market.

Digitec Expo October 2-4, 2009

Instigate participated in Digitec Expo 2009 organized in Sport-Concert Complex after Karen Demirtchyan, Yerevan, Armenia where we presented our services and products.

DAC July 26-31, 2009

Instigate participated in DAC organized in Moscone Center, San Francisco where we demonstrated our products and services.

Instigate Build System 1.0 June 26, 2009

Instigate released Instigate Build System 1.0 under LGPL. The infrastructure of automated build/test environment is available on our Open Source Projects page.

Instigate SDK June 22, 2009

Instigate released Instigate SDK 1.0. It is available on our Open Source Projects page. This work is done at Instigate Training Center by interns.

Instigate STL June 2, 2009

Instigate released Instigate STL 1.0 under LGPL. It is available at www.sourceforge.net and on our Open Source Projects page. This is the result of research work done at Instigate Training Center and at Instigate by graduates and interns.

Software Acceleration

Since 2009 Instigate has extended the range of its services with software acceleration using modern multi-cpu devices such as AMD Non-Uniform-Memory-Architecture and General Purpose Graphical Processing Units.
See also the overview and white paper.

Digitec Expo October 3-5, 2008

Instigate participated in Digitec Expo 2008 organized in Epygi office park, Halabyan 16, Yerevan, Armenia where we presented our services and products.

Instigate span off ProximusDA GmbH July 17, 2008

ProximusDA GmbH is an EDA company which will be headquartered in Munich, Germany, and will have an R&D center in Yerevan, Armenia. It will continue the development of Proximus, the System Level Design automation tool, developed by Instigate during 2005-2008. ProximusDA specializes in system level design and software solutions that expedite hardware-software development processes, accelerate system performance and reduce costs. ProximusDA is funded by Mic AG, Germany.
See also the official press release.

Financing from the Armenian government July 8, 2008

Instigate received financing from the Armenian government by signing the shareholders agreement. The fund "Small and Medium Entrepreneurship Development National Center of Armenia" (www.smednc.am) became a shareholder of Instigate. The collaboration with SMEDNC had started in February 2008.

DAC June 8-13, 2008

Instigate participated in DAC organized in Anaheim Conversation Center, CA where demonstrated Proximus, HW-SW trade-off tool and services.

Establishment of Instigate Training Center NGO March 1, 2008

Instigate CJSC span off its training division into “Instigate Training Center” NGO. The training center runs training courses on programming skills and digital schemes design.

ISO 9001:2000 certification February 5, 2008

Instigate's quality management system was certified according to ISO 9001:2000 standard.

Instigate span off Amtokay November 1, 2007

Instigate launched "Amtokay" cjsc, a spin-off EDA company, specialized in FPGA place & route. The company is headquartered in Yerevan, and currently employs more than 20 R&D and QA engineers.

Digitec October 5-7, 2007

Instigate participated in Digitec Expo 2007 organized in Sport-Concert Complex after Karen Demirtchyan, Yerevan, Armenia. We demonstrated our products and services.

DAC July 4-8, 2007

Instigate participated in DAC 2007 organized in San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA. We demonstrated our products services.

Official representative in the USA March 27, 2007

Laflin Limited and Instigate have entered into a cooperation agreement. Now Laflin Limited officially represents Instigate CJSC in the USA by promoting Instigate's products and services.

Extended training courses April 26, 2007

Instigate extended its training centre program for 2 months. The new program covers GNU/Linux programming and the introduction to EDA more deeply. More attention is paid to parallel programming as well as project management. More information is available here.

Official representative in Europe October 2, 2006

Instigate entered into partnership with Ruechard Consulting thus establishing its representation in Europe. Through this collaboration Instigate will be able to expand its range of customers in Europe.

October 6-8, 2006 Instigate will participate in Digitec Expo 2006.

We will be demonstrating our ESL design environment and Video coding solutions.

Subsidiary in Gyumri, Armenia July 7, 2006

Instigate launched a design centre in Gyumri. Most employees are graduates of Gyumri IT Center, specialized in RTL design, FPGA prototyping and DSP applications.

Moving to the new building March 17, 2006

Instigate staff moved to a new building. The headquarters and the main design center are now located at K. Ulnetsi Str 58, Yerevan.

Membership in UITE October, 2005

instigate became a member of UITE established by private sector representatives to consolidate industry issues for advocacy, to facilitate business and encourage the advancement of research in the IT sector in Armenia.

Digitec Expo September 30 - October 2, 2005

Instigate participated in Digitec Expo 2005 where demonstrated its ESL design environment.

Opening a Training department September 01, 2005

Instigate opened a training department and launched a training program. The latter aims at teaching, especially university graduates, the basic practical skills required to work in EDA companies, including programming tools and methodologies (mainly in GNU/Linux environment), as well as project management and collaboration tools.