Lawrence C. Widdoes
Lawrence Curtis Widdoes , called Curtis Widdoes, (born January 19, 1952 in St. Louis ) is an American computer engineer and computer scientist.
Widdoes graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1973 and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1980 . From 1969 to 1973 he was a Sloan Fellow . As a student at Caltech, he worked on software for the Space Radiation Laboratory and the REL Language System and developed the Minerva Project, a multiprocessor research computer at Stanford. In 1975 he joined the S-1 project with Thomas M. McWilliams at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . Both were students at Stanford and built the S1 supercomputer at the LLNL. From 1978 to 1980 they were technical director and developed new logic design software, Structured Computer Aided Logic Design (SCALD). At the same time, Widdoes was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1978 to 1980 . In 1981 he left the S-1 project and founded his own company, Valid Logic Systems, which McWilliams later joined. The company was one of the first for automatic logic design (Electronic Design Automation, EDA, Computer Aided Engineering, CAE) and simulation of complex VLSI chips. In the early 1990s it was taken over by Cadence Design Systems.
In 1987 he founded Logic Modeling Systems, which developed simulation tools for VLSI components - the company was taken over by Synopsys in 1994. In 1996 he was one of the founders of 0-In Design Automation, a pioneer in assertion based verification in IC design. They were acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2004 and Widdoes was a senior scientist there until 2006.
In 1984 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award with Thomas M. McWilliams .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Widdoes, Lawrence C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Widdoes, Lawrence Curtis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis |