The Phil Kaufman Award was established in 1994 by the EDA Consortium (now the Electronic System Design Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community) to recognize individuals for their impact on

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by their contributions to electronic design automation (EDA). The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) became a co-sponsor in 2006. The award has been dubbed "The

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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

All recipients are listed at the ESDA Phil Kaufman Award webpage. * 2022:

Giovanni De Micheli Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. ...

, for his significant impact on the electronic system design industry through pioneering technical contributions. * 2021:

Anirudh Devgan Anirudh Devgan, Ph.D (b. September 15th, 1969) is an Indian-American computer scientist. Devgan currently serves as President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems and member of the board of directors. He also serves on the boards of the Global Semico ...

, Cadence Design Systems CEO for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic System Design. * 2020: Hiatus due to

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* 2019: Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University, for her extensive contributions to EDA and the community. * 2018: Thomas Williams, for his outstanding contributions to test automation and his overall impact on the electronics industry. * 2017: Rob Rutenbar, for his contributions to algorithms and tools for analog and mixed-signal designs. * 2016: Andrzej Strojwas, CMU professor and chief technologist of PDF Solutions, for his research in the area of design for manufacturing in the semiconductor industry. * 2015: Walden C. Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, for his efforts growing the EDA and IC design industries. * 2014: Lucio Lanza, for helping numerous startups to develop innovative technologies. * 2013:

Chenming Hu Chenming Calvin Hu (; born 1947) is a Chinese-American electronic engineer who specializes in microelectronics. He is TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the electronic engineering and computer science department of the University of Califo ...

, for major contributions to transistor modeling enabling the generation of FinFET based design. * 2011:

Chung Laung Liu Chung Laung Liu (; 1934 – 7 November 2020), also known as David Liu or C. L. Liu, was a Taiwanese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, master's degree and doctorate in ...

, 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, CMU professor, for his seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification. * 2008:

Aart de Geus Aart J. de Geus (born June 11, 1954) is the co-founder, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys Inc. De Geus graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering (1978) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute o ...

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CEO for contributions to the EDA industry, more specifically the Design Compiler tool. * 2007: Robert K. Brayton, known for work in

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and

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. Co-developer of

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. * 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. * 2005: Phil Moorby, inventor of

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* 2004: Joseph Costello * 2003: A. Richard Newton * 2002: Ronald A. Rohrer, electronic industry pioneer, entrepreneur, researcher and educator, who head led a students' circuit simulator projects, which had eventually led to the development of

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. * 2001:

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (born June 23, 1947) is an Italian-American computer scientist. He currently sits on the board of directors of Cadence Design Systems, an EDA company he co-founded in 1988. Biography Born in Milan, Italy ...

* 2000: Paul (Yen-Son) Huang * 1999:

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, known for his contributions in creating and driving the development of design automation tools that have had measurable impact on the productivity of electronic design engineers. * 1998: Ernest S. Kuh * 1997:

James Solomon James E. Solomon (born 1936 in Boise, Idaho) 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 Sys ...

* 1996:

Carver Mead Carver Andress Mead (born May 1, 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), ...

* 1995: Donald Pederson * 1994: Hermann Gummel

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IEEE Council on EDA
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