Phil Kaufman Award
The Phil Kaufman Award is a prize for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) from the Electronic System Design Alliance and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation. It is awarded to developers and personalities in the EDA industry.
The award is named after Phil Kaufman (1942–1992), the former president of Silicon Compiler Systems and Quickturn Systems.
Award winners
- 2019: Mary Jane Irwin , Pennsylvania State University
- 2018: Thomas W. Williams , IBM and Synopsys
- 2017: Rob A. Rutenbar , University of Pittsburgh
- 2016: Andrzej Strojwas , Carnegie Mellon University and Chief Technology Officer of PDF Solutions
- 2015: Walden C. Rhines , CEO of Mentor Graphics
- 2014: Lucio Lanza
- 2013: Chenming Hu , for transistor modeling that led to FinFET-based designs.
- 2011: Chung Laung Liu
- 2010: Pat Pistilli
- 2009: Randal Bryant , Carnegie Mellon University
- 2008: Aart de Geus , CEO of Synopsys, developer of the Design Compiler Tool
- 2007: Robert K. Brayton , co-developer of the Espresso heuristic logic minimizer (Espresso)
- 2006: Robert Dutton , developer of SUPREM (Stanford University Process Engineering Models) and PISCES (Poisson and Continuity Equation Solver)
- 2005: Phil Moorby , developer of Verilog
- 2004: Joseph Costello (Joe Costello), was CEO of Cadence
- 2003: A. Richard Newton
- 2002: Ronald A. Rohrer
- 2001: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
- 2000: Yen-Son Huang (Paul Huang), developed the Dracula Physical Verification System
- 1999: Hugo De Man
- 1998: Ernest S. Kuh
- 1997: James Solomon , founder of SDA Systems
- 1996: Carver Mead
- 1995: Donald Pederson
- 1994: Hermann Gummel
Web links
- Phil Kaufman Award at the Electronic System Design Alliance (esd-alliance.org)
- Phil Kaufman Award at the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (ieee-ceda.org)