Phil Moorby

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Philip R. Moorby (born April 25, 1953 in Birmingham ) is an English technician and computer scientist , who was best known for the invention of the hardware description language Verilog .

He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Southampton . He received his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Manchester in 1974 . He then completed a doctorate at Brunel University in West London .

In 1983, Moorby went to the United States to work in the company Automated Integrated Design Systems (later Gateway Design Automation ) on the development of the hardware description language Verilog, which came onto the market in 1985. Between 1985 and 1990, Moorby's team developed the Verilog-XL logic simulator , which became the industry standard.

When Gateway Design Automation was bought by Cadence Design Systems in 1990 , Moorby switched to Cadence and initially continued to work on the simulation of Verilog systems. When the Verilog competitor VHDL gained acceptance, Cadence oriented itself more closely to VHDL and Moorby was assigned to a VHDL project. Moorby left Cadence in 1992 and temporarily turned to other areas - among other things, he developed software to determine the camera position and depth from video sequences . Then he turned back to electronic design automation . He became a technical consultant for Co-Design Automation , founded in 1997 , which he joined in 1998 to work on the hardware description language Superlog . Co-Design Automation was taken over by Synopsys in 2001 , where Superlog was used as the basis for an object-oriented language extension from Verilog.

For his contribution to electronic design automation, Moorby received the Phil Kaufman Award in 2005. In 2016 he became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum .

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