Ronald Rohrer

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Ronald A. Rohrer (born August 19, 1939 ) is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who pioneered the simulation of integrated circuits in the 1960s.

Rohrer studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and at the University of California, Berkeley , with a master's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1963. He was from 1963 Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , from 1965 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and from 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also became an associate professor and taught until 1972. From 1968 to 1970 he was with Fairchild Semiconductor in Palo Alto. 1971/72 he was a manager at Softech. In 1974/75 he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he returned in 1985 after professorships at Southern Methodist University, the University of Maine and the University of Colorado and positions in industry (such as at General Electric). From 1989 to 1992 he was head of the CAD Center of Excellence and in 1990 he became Howard M. Wilkoff University Professor.

The predecessor project CANCER by SPICE originated in Berkeley as a class project in which the main developer of SPICE Larry Nagel also took part. SPICE was first introduced in 1973 and became the industry standard.

In the 1980s he developed the Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation (AWE) algorithm at CMU, which enabled a very efficient temporal simulation of integrated circuits with a large number of parasitic elements.

He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and was President of its Circuit and Systems Society in 1986/87. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering . From 1966 to 1969 he was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory. ER received the IEEE Medal of Honor .

Fonts

  • with Lawrence Pillage, Chandramouli Visweswariah: Electronic circuit and system simulation methods, McGraw Hill 1995
  • with Michael Reed: Applied introductory circuit analysis for electrical and computer engineers, Prentice Hall 1999

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Rohrer, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohrer, Ronald A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1939