The Kaufman Award honors individuals who have made a demonstrable impact on the field of EDA in business, industry direction and promotion, technology and engineering, or education and mentoring. It was established in 1994 in honor of deceased EDA industry pioneer Phil Kaufman, who turned innovative technologies like silicon compilation and emulation into businesses that have benefited electronic designers.

Dr. Robert Dutton, Robert and Barbara Kleist professor of engineering at Stanford University and director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory, was the recipient of last year’s 2006 award.

“The Phil Kaufman Award is truly the ‘Nobel Prize of EDA,’ and those deserving individuals who have received it in the past have proven to be guiding lights for our industry,” said Aart de Geus, chairman of the EDA Consortium and chairman and CEO of Synopsys, Inc.
“The importance and significance of this award to the EDA industry cannot be overstated,” says Al Dunlop, president of the CEDA. “It is a wonderful opportunity for the industry to show its appreciation and gratitude to the individuals who have made EDA such an important gateway to electronics design.”

To download this year’s nomination form, visit: www.edac.org/about_kaufman_award.jsp or www.ieee-ceda.org/awards.html.

The EDA Consortium is the international association of companies that provide tools and services that enable engineers to create the world’s electronic products. EDA is the critical technology used to design electronics for the communications, computer, space technology, medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics markets among others. For more information about the EDA Consortium contact EDA Consortium, 111 West Saint John Street, Suite 220, San Jose, Calif. 95113, USA, office 408-287-3322, fax 408-283-5283 or visit www.edac.org.

The Council on Electronic Design Automation is IEEE’s focal point for multiple EDA disciplines. Its goal is to bring increased value to IEEE members and the EDA community as a whole by coordinating EDA activities, enabling new initiatives, fostering interdisciplinary research and recruiting young talent to EDA. It also will increase visibility for IEEE-sponsored EDA events such as the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) and its technical publications. Its charter spans theory, implementation and use of computer aided design (CAD) tools to design integrated electronic circuits and systems. Its website is located at: http://www.ieee-ceda.org.

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