Phil Kaufman Award is established by the EDA Consortium to recognize individuals for their impact on electronic design by their contributions to electronic design automation

Electronic design automation

Electronic design automation is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as printed circuit boards and integrated circuits...

 (EDA). It has been dubbed "The Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 of the EDA Industry".

Contributions are evaluated in any of the following categories:

• Business
• Industry Direction and Promotion
• Technology and Engineering
• Educational and Mentoring

The award was established to honor Phil Kaufman, the deceased former president of Quickturn Systems.

Recipients

• 2011: Chung Laung Liu
  Chung Laung Liu
  Professor Chung Laung Liu , or C. L. Liu is an ethnic Chinese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, Master Degree and PHD in United States.-Biography:...
  
  , for his Distinguished Technical Contributions, Leadership Skills, and Business Acumen in Electronic Design Automation.
• 2010: Pat Pistilli, for pioneering the EDA industry and building the Design Automation Conference as its premiere showcase and networking platform
• 2009: Randal Bryant
  Randal Bryant
  Randal E. Bryant is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software...
  
  , CMU professor, for his seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification.
• 2008: Aart de Geus
  Aart de Geus
  Aart J. de Geus is the founder, chairman and CEO of Synopsys Inc. He is a fellow of IEEE and Phil Kaufman Award award winner. Aart graduated with a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , EPFL, Switzerland followed by a Ph.D...
  
  , Synopsys
  Synopsys
  Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit...
  
   CEO for contributions to the EDA industry, more specifically the Design Compiler tool.
• 2007: Robert K. Brayton, known for work in logic synthesis
  Logic synthesis
  In electronics, logic synthesis is a process by which an abstract form of desired circuit behavior, typically register transfer level , is turned into a design implementation in terms of logic gates. Common examples of this process include synthesis of HDLs, including VHDL and Verilog...
  
  , formal verification
  Formal verification
  In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of intended algorithms underlying a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal methods of mathematics .- Usage :Formal verification can be...
  
   and formal equivalence checking
  Formal equivalence checking
  Formal equivalence checking process is a part of electronic design automation , commonly used during the development of digital integrated circuits, to formally prove that two representations of a circuit design exhibit exactly the same behavior....
  
  . Co-developer of Espresso
  Espresso heuristic logic minimizer
  The Espresso logic minimizer is a computer program using heuristic and specific algorithms for efficiently reducing the complexity of digital electronic gate circuits. Espresso was developed at IBM by Robert Brayton. Rudell later published the variant Espresso-MV in 1986 under the title...
  
  .
• 2006: Robert Dutton, creator of SUPREM (Stanford University Process Engineering Models) and PISCES (Poisson and Continuity Equation Solver) simulation tools and software used in Technology Computer Aided Design
  Technology CAD
  Technology CAD is a branch of electronic design automation that models semiconductor fabrication and semiconductor device operation. The modeling of the fabrication is termed Process TCAD, while the modeling of the device operation is termed Device TCAD...
  
  .
• 2005: Phil Moorby
  Phil Moorby
  Phil Moorby is an engineer and computer scientist. Moorby was born and brought up in Birmingham, England, and studied Mathematics at Southampton University, England. Moorby received his Masters in computer science from Manchester University, England in 1974. He moved to the United States in 1983...
  
  , inventor of Verilog
  Verilog
  In the semiconductor and electronic design industry, Verilog is a hardware description language used to model electronic systems. Verilog HDL, not to be confused with VHDL , is most commonly used in the design, verification, and implementation of digital logic chips at the register-transfer level...
  
  
• 2004: Joseph Costello
  Joseph Costello
  Joseph Costello is a prominent person in electronic design automation industry.He was president and COO of SDA Systems from 1987–1988 and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which became the largest EDA company under his tenure, from 1988–1997....
  
  
• 2003: A. Richard Newton
  A. Richard Newton
  Arthur Richard Newton was the dean of the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering....
  
  
• 2002: Ronald A. Rohrer
• 2001: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is an academic researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, technical advisor and business man. He is a co-founder of the two largest EDA companies: Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, Inc....
  
  
• 2000: Paul (Yen-Son) Huang
• 1999: Hugo De Man
• 1998: Ernest S. Kuh
• 1997: James Solomon
  James Solomon
  James E. Solomon is an American engineer and entrepreneur. In his lifetime, he has founded four companies, including one of the companies that merged to form the leading chip manufacturing toolmaker Cadence Design Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the industry's Phil Kaufman Award in 1997...
  
  
• 1996: Carver Mead
  Carver Mead
  Carver Andress Mead is a US computer scientist. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology , having taught there for over 40 years.Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting...
  
  
• 1995: Donald Pederson
  Donald Pederson
  Donald O. Pederson was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.- Biography :...
  
  
• 1994: Hermann Gummel
  Hermann Gummel
  Hermann Gummel is a pioneer in the semiconductor industry.Gummel received his Diplom in physics from Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Syracuse University...
  
  

External links

• EDAC
• http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~newton/Presentations/