Thomas M. McWilliams
Thomas M. McWilliams (born June 17, 1952 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American computer engineer and computer scientist.
McWilliams studied electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University with a master's degree in 1974 and at Stanford University , where he received his doctorate in 1980 ( Verification of timing constraints in large digital systems ). Even as a student he worked on simulation programs for Digital Equipment Corporation and after graduation he developed logic with Lawrence C. Widdoes at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of the S-1 supercomputer project Structured Computer Aided Logic Design (SCALD) they founded. Design systems. With this, the S-1 Mark IIA processor was developed for the S-1 supercomputer. He was the technical director of the S-1 project until 1983, when he joined Valid Logic Systems , founded by Widdoes in 1981 , one of the first companies for electronic design automation (EDA). Around the same time Daisy Systems and Mentor Graphics were founded (abbreviated as DMV together with VLS), soon followed by many other companies.
In 1984 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award with Lawrence C. Widdoes . He is an IEEE fellow and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .
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- ^ S-1 supercomputers
- ↑ Acquired by Cadence Design Systems in the early 1990s
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| SURNAME | McWilliams, Thomas M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City , Missouri |