- Phil Kaufman Award
Phil Kaufman Award is established by the
EDA Consortium to recognize individuals for their impact onelectronic design by their contributions toelectronic design automation (EDA). It has been dubbed "TheNobel Prize of the EDA Industry".Contributions are evaluated in any of the following categories:
*Business
*Industry Direction and Promotion
*Technology and Engineering
*Educational and MentoringThe award was established to honor
Phil Kaufman , the deceased former president of Quickturn Systems.Recipients
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2008 :Aart de Geus ,Synopsys CEO for contributions to the EDA industry, more specifically the Design Compiler tool.
*2007 :Robert K. Brayton , known for work inlogic synthesis ,formal verification andformal equivalence checking . Co-developer of Espresso.
*2006 : Robert Dutton, creator of SUPREM (Stanford University Process Engineering Models) and PISCES (Poisson and Continuity Equation Solver) simulation tools and software used in Technology Computer Aided Design.
*2005 :Phil Moorby , inventor ofVerilog
*2004 :Joseph Costello
*2003 :A. Richard Newton
*2002 :Ronald A. Rohrer
*2001 :Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
*2000 :Paul (Yen-Son) Huang
*1999 :Hugo De Man
*1998 :Ernest S. Kuh
*1997 :James E. Solomon
*1996 :Carver A. Mead
*1995 :Donald Pederson
*1994 :Hermann K. Gummel External links
* [http://www.edac.org EDAC]
* [http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~newton/Presentations/ Kaufman Award Speeches]
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