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Technical Advisory
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Dr. Robert K. Brayton, Cadence Distinguished Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University
of California at Berkeley, and recipient of the 2007 Phil Kaufman
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic Design Automation
(EDA), is an industry pioneer and one of the world's authorities
in logic synthesis and formal verification. Dr. Brayton's seminal
contributions to logic synthesis have been critical to the design
of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and the development
of CAD products that use logic synthesis software. Additionally,
he co-developed the Sparse Tableau Approach and the Backward Differentiation
Formulas. Their implementation as early Circuit Simulation software
influenced SPICE, HSPICE™ and Spectre®. From 1961-1987, Dr. Brayton
was employed with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in
Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he and his colleagues worked on
the Yorktown Silicon Compiler that led to combining synthesis
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Dr. Massoud Pedram is a professor and Chair of the Computer
Engineering division of the Department of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Southern California. His research has received
a number of awards including two Best Paper Awards from the International
Conference on Computer Design, two Design Automation Conference
Best Paper Awards, an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper
Award, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer
Award. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers
and written four books on various aspects of low power design.
Dr. Pedram is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's
Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers (a.k.a. the Presidential Faculty
Fellows Award) (1996). |
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