Many thanks to Peggy Aycinena whose blog post is found above mine for her great profile of this year’s Phil Kaufman Award recipient, Andrzej Strojwas (pronounced Andrey Stroyvas), Keithley professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. If you haven’t read it as yet, I highly recommend it.
Andrzej is being recognized with the award, presented annually by the ESD Alliance and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), for his pioneering research in the area of design for manufacturing (DFM) in the semiconductor industry. The relationship between design and manufacturing has never been more important and Andrzej deserves praise for recognizing early on that DFM needed to be a key element of chip design automation. His work was instrumental in bringing design and manufacturing together in a way that has benefited the semiconductor design and manufacturing communities as well as the broader electronics products markets.
The Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Dinner to honor him will be held January 26 at the Fourth Street Summit Center in San Jose, Calif., where we held last year’s dinner paying tribute to Mentor Graphics’ Wally Rhines. Wally was honored for growing the EDA and IC design industries through his efforts as a leading voice of EDA and for pioneering the evolution of IC design to SoC design.
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October continues to be a busy month. I’m just back from a whirlwind trip to Munich, Germany, for DVCon Europe where I was the keynote speaker at the Wednesday night dinner. Stay tuned for a full report in my next blog post.
