EDA Consortium Honors Ron Rohrer With Kaufman Award
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2002--The EDA
Consortium today announced it has chosen electronic industry pioneer,
entrepreneur, researcher and educator Ron Rohrer as the 2002 recipient
of its prestigious Phil Kaufman Award. Dr. Rohrer was selected for his
distinguished contributions to the EDA industry. The Consortium will
present the Award on Tuesday, November 12, at its annual award
ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.
Initiated in 1994, the Phil Kaufman Award honors individuals who
have made a substantial, sustainable contribution to the success and
advancement of the electronic design automation (EDA) industry that
benefits the industry's tools' users-- electronic designers.
"Ron Rohrer's contributions are representative of the spirit
behind the Kaufman Award," said Walden C. Rhines, EDA Consortium Chair
and Chair and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation. "His body of work,
entrepreneurial endeavors, technology contributions, and role in many
collaborative efforts have led to better design tools and are evidence
of how he has helped advance our industry."
"As an educator, as a researcher, an entrepreneur and a mentor to
many accomplished leaders in our field, Ron has demonstrated his
ability to cause truly transformative changes in our industry time and
time again," added Richard Newton, Dean of the College of Engineering
at University of California, Berkeley. "His ability to understand and
apply basic engineering and mathematical principles in design
technology, with an unparalleled appreciation for the tradeoffs needed
to maximize the practical impact of a new idea or insight, make Ron's
contributions to our field truly unique."
Aart de Geus, chairman and CEO of Synopsys, Inc., and one of the
people who nominated Ron Rohrer, noted, "Throughout his career, Ron
has always been at the leading edge of circuit simulation R&D. In
fact, many concepts that stem from his earliest days have had
tremendous impact. For example, the SPICE program, which resulted from
a class project that he led, has had widespread, substantial impact on
our industry for the past 25 years. For this reason and others like
them, Ron is one of the most deserving recipients of the Kaufman
award."
Ron Rohrer is an Executive Advisor of Magma Design Automation in
Cupertino, Calif., and is Chair of Neolinear in Pittsburgh, PA. He is
an entrepreneur, who has been involved with a dozen successful
start-up companies and an educator who has taught at leading
universities. His career includes research, marketing and management
positions in both large and small semiconductor and EDA companies. He
has also authored five textbooks and more than one hundred papers, and
is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the US National Academy of
Engineering. He was awarded the IEEE Education Medal in 1993 and the
C&C Prize in Japan in 1996.
About EDA Consortium
Where Electronics Begins(TM) best describes the Electronics Design
Automation (EDA) Industry. The EDA Consortium represents this vital
industry on a worldwide scale. It is the international association of
companies developing design tools and services that enable engineers
to create the world's electronic products. EDA provides the critical
technology to design electronics that enable the Information Age,
including: communications, computers, space technology, medical and
industrial equipment and consumer electronics.
For more information about EDA Consortium, or to subscribe to the
Market Statistics Service, 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.
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accurate and reliable, and the Consortium assumes no responsibility
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Contact:
ValleyPR for EDA Consortium's Phil Kaufman Award
Georgia Marszalek, 650/345-7477
Georgia@ValleyPR.com
Source:
EDA Consortium
