IEEE/ACM WILLIAM J. MCCALLA AWARD

This award is given in memory of William J. McCalla for his contribution to ICCAD and his CAD technical work throughout his career.

Back End Winner
5B.2 Methodology for Standard Cell Compliance and Detailed Placement for Triple Patterning Lithography
Bei Yu, Xiaoqing Xu, Jhih-Rong Gao and David Z. Pan - Univ. of Texas at Austin

 

 

 

 

 

Front End Winner
2B.1  Improved SAT-based ATPG: More Constraints, Better Compaction
Stephan Eggersglüß, Robert Wille, Rolf Drechsler - Univ. of Bremen / DFKI

 

 

 

 

 

SIGDA PIONEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Donald E. Thomas -Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
For his pioneering work in making the Verilog Hardware Description Language more accessible for the design automation community and allowing for faster and easier pathways to simulation, high-level synthesis, and co-design of hardware-software systems.
 

 

 

MOST INFLUENTIAL PAPER AWARD

ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award. This award is being given to the paper judged to be the most influential on research and industrial practice in computer-aided design of integrated circuits over the ten years since its original appearance at ICCAD2003.

Paper Titled: Statistical Timing Analysis Considering Spatial Correlations Using A Single PERT-Like Traversal

Authors: Hongliang Chang, Sachin S. Sapatnekar - Univ. of Minnesota
Publication: ICCAD 2003 Proceedings: pp. 621-625 

 

CADATHLON FIRST PLACE WINNERS

ChienYu Lai & SheahYun Hsu – National Taiwan University
Advisor: ChungYang (Ric) Huang

 

 

 

CADATHLON second PLACE WINNERS

Sergiy Popovych & Chieh-Min Wang - National Chiao Tung University
Advisor: Yih-Lang Li 

 

 

 

 

IEEE CEDA EARLY CAREER AWARD

For sustained and outstanding contributions to design methods and tools for multi-processor systems-on-chip (MPSoC), particularly for work on thermal-aware design, low power architectures and on-chip interconnects synthesis.
David Atienza - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Embedded Systems Laboratory at EPFL

 

 

 

 

For essential and outstanding contributions to algorithms, methodologies, and software for interconnect optimization, physical synthesis, parasitic extraction, testing and simulation.
Zhuo Li -IBM T. J. Watson Research Center