James Solomon

Infobox Person


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name = James E. Solomon
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birth_date = 1936
birth_place = Boise, Idaho
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education = BSEE and MSEE, UC Berkeley
occupation = Entrepreneur, engineer

James E. Solomon (born 1936 in Boise, Idaho) is an American engineer and entrepreneur. In his lifetime, he has founded four companies, including one of the companies that merged to form the leading chip manufacturing toolmaker Cadence Design Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the industry's Phil Kaufman Award in 1997. Solomon holds 23 patents in integrated chip design.

Biography

Solomon graduated with BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.cite web
url=http://web.appwave.com/Company/Board_Members.php?bullet_id=2
title=James E. Solomon (Board profile)
publisher=Applied Wave Research
accessdate=2007-08-01]

He began his career with Motorola, spending three years designing radar devices and components for missile control systems. The next seven, he ran linear integrated circuit design at the Motorola Semiconductor Lab. After his time with Motorola, he moved to National Semiconductor from 1970-1983, where he was director of IC design for analog and mixed-signal chips.cite web
url=http://www.pyxistech.com/board.html
title=James E. Solomon (Board profile)
publisher=Pyxis Technology
accessdate=2007-08-01]

In 1983 Solomon founded his first company, Solomon Design Automation (SDA Systems), which eventually merged with ECAD to become Cadence Design Systems [http://www.cadence.com/company/index.aspx] . Near the end of his time with CDS, he co-founded Smart Machines (in 1994), a company that manufactures direct-drive robots for semiconductor wafer manufacture. The company was acquired in 1999 by Brooks Automation. In 1995, he co-founded Xulu Entertainment, a computer based entertainment venture.cite news
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2193_v43/ai_19973279
title=Solomon to be EDAC honoree - EDA Consortium's 1997 Phil Kaufman award to James Solomon
publisher=Electronic News
date=November 1 1997
accessdate=2007-08-01] In 2001, Solomon unveiled plans for a 20,000 square foot entertainment center to be named Xulu Universe [http://www.xulu.com/press/pdf/Daily%20Radar.pdf] , which would combine a restaurant/lounge with a simulator of an alien world. According to Solomon, Xulu had invested over $12 million in the project, having hired design and engineering staff from companies such as Lucasfilm and Disney. [cite news
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/12/DD63944.DTL
title=Xulu Universe Gets Closer to Lift-Off
date=March 12 2001
publisher=San Francisco Chronicle
accessdate=2007-08-01]

Solomon was the 1997 recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award "for his innovative contributions to design tool technology of benefit to electronic systems and IC designers".cite web
url=http://www.edac.org/htmfiles/KaufmanAward/JamesSolomon.htm
title=James E. Solomon: 1997 Phil Kaufman Award Honoree
publisher=EDAC
accessdate=2007-08-01]

References

External links

* [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~newton/Presentations/Kaufman/JSPresent.html Presentation of James Solomon] by A. Richard Newton