It gives me great pleasure to announce Dr.Giovanni (Nanni) De Micheli is the recipient of the 2022 Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic System Design presented annually by the ESD Alliance of SEMI and IEEE CEDA.

Nanni, Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, is being honored for his extensive contributions to EDA. His research in EDA tools and methodologies has advanced the academic field and made an impact on industry designs through their use in commercial EDA tools and design methodologies.

According to his nominators, Nanni created multiple technologies and inspired his students and researchers at universities as well as engineers in industry. His work has expanded the fields of high-level synthesis, logic synthesis, and networks on chips for more than 30 years.

“Professor De Micheli, or Nanni to many of us, who’ve been driving our industry forward for decades, stands as a relentless advocate for our field,” remarks Aart de Geus, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys and a member of the ESD Alliance Governing Council. “I am not alone when I express my appreciation to Nanni for advancing the field, but most important, for continuing to add findings that keep our profession fresh and exciting!”

The award ceremony and dinner will be held in early 2023. We hope you will join the ESD Alliance, its Governing Council and IEEE CEDA in honoring Nanni at the award dinner. Registration information will be available soon.

The news release offers a full look at Nanni’s contributions to our industry.

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The ESD Alliance and its Governing Council mourns the death of Phil Moorby, 2005 Phil Kaufman Kaufman Award recipient for his efforts in the development of the Verilog language and its associated family of simulators.

Summer’s almost over, school’s back in session and it’s time to look forward. It’s an even better time to join the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community. The reasons for joining are numerous.

Much of the ESD Alliance member value is derived from the various technical- and business-focused committees. With committee membership consisting of subject matter experts in our member companies, these groups address key areas of common concern for our industry. 

One such area is the quarterly SEMI Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report, a resource that is part of the Market Information initiative. Public and private EDA, semiconductor IP and services companies provide detailed revenue data in confidence to an independent auditing firm. The aggregated data is reported by detailed product categories and geographic regions on a quarterly basis. Each report includes tables and graphs with current and recent revenue and employment trends by quarter, allowing companies to review trends affecting their specific product segments.

The increasingly important Risk Management initiative includes SEMI’s Washington, D.C. policy and advocacy office, representing all member companies with a unified voice on export licensing and compliance issues. We also help to train future government leaders in the semiconductor design ecosystem to enable more educated future decisions affecting the industry.

The License Management and Anti-Piracy Committee reviews third-party licensing management software used by member companies for issues, updates and best practices. A significant ongoing effort is the SEMI Server Certification Protocol (SSCP), a years-long joint development effort led by the ESD Alliance with committee members Cadence, Siemens EDA and Synopsys (see my previous blog post for details). The SSCP addresses software piracy by providing a means to assure that licenses are issued only by authorized servers, reducing software piracy and benefitting both software vendors and customers.
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