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

[edit] Recipients

• 2009: Randal Bryant, CMU professor, for his seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification.
• 2008: Aart de Geus, Synopsys CEO for contributions to the EDA industry, more specifically the Design Compiler tool.
• 2007: Robert K. Brayton, known for work in logic synthesis, formal verification and formal equivalence checking. Co-developer of Espresso.
• 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 Verilog
• 2004: Joseph Costello
• 2003: A. Richard Newton
• 2002: Ronald A. Rohrer
• 2001: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
• 2000: Paul (Yen-Son) Huang
• 1999: Hugo De Man
• 1998: Ernest S. Kuh
• 1997: James E. Solomon
• 1996: Carver A. Mead
• 1995: Donald Pederson
• 1994: Hermann K. Gummel

[edit] External links

• EDAC
• Kaufman Award Speeches