2010 Winner(s)

9A.1 SimPL: An Effective Placement Algorithm
Myung-Chul Kim, Dong-Jin Lee and Igor L. Markov - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2009 Winner(s)
Paper 4C.1 TAPE: Thermal-Aware Agent-Based Power Economy for Multi/Many-Core Architectures
Thomas Ebi, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, Jörg Henkel - Univ. Karlsruhe

Paper 7A.1 An Elegant Hardware-Corroborated Statistical Repair and Test Methodology for Conquering Aging Effects
Rouwaida Kanj, Rajiv Joshi, Chad Adams, James Warnock, Sani Nassif - IBM Corp.

2008 Winner(s)
Paper 4.1* Optimization-based Framework for Simultaneous Circuit-and-System Design-space Exploration: A High-speed Link Example
Ranko Sredojevic, Vladimir Stojanovic - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

Paper 9.1* Guaranteed Stable Projection-based Model Reduction for Indefinite and Unstable Linear Systems
Bradley N. Bond, Luca Daniel - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

2007 Winner(s)
Paper 4B.1 - Approximation Algorithm for the Temperature-Aware Scheduling Problem
Sushu Zhang, Karam S. Chatha - Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

2006 Winner(s)
Paper 1B.1 - Joint Design-Time and Post-Silicon Minimization of Parametric Yield Loss using Adjustable Robust Optimization
Murai Mani, Ashish K. Singh, Michael Orshansky - Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

2005 Winner(s)
Paper 8A.1 - FastSies: A Fast Stochastic Integral Equation Solver for Modeling the Rough Surface Effect
Zhenhai Zhu - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Berkeley, CA
Jacob K. White - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA

2004 Winner(s)
Paper 1A.1 - Asymptotic Probability Extraction for Non-Normal Distributions of Circuit Performance
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Lawrence T. Pileggi - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Paper 1D.2 - SPRIM: Structure-Preserving Reduced-Order Interconnect Macromodeling
Roland W. Freund - Univ. of California, Davis, CA

2003 Winner(s)
Paper 6C.1 - Noise Analysis for Optical Fiber Communication Systems
Alper Demir - KOC Univ., Sariyer-Istanbul, Turkey
Paper 8B.1 - Block-Based Static Timing Analysis with Uncertainty
Anirudh Devgan - IBM Research, Austin, TX
Chandramouli Kashyap - IBM Microelectronics, Austin, TX

2002 Winner(s)
Paper 3D.1 - A Local Circuit Topology for Inductance Parasitics
Andrea Pacelli - State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Paper 8B.2 - Metrics for Structural Logic Synthesis
Prabhakar Kudva, William Dougherty, Andrew Sullivan - IBM Corp., Yorktown Hts., NY