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Description

To honor a person or persons for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years before the presentation of the award.

Prize

$1,500 and a plaque for each author. The honoraria will be shared by all authors. For groups of more than five awardees, there will be a minimum of $300 honorarium per contributor.

Funding

Funded by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation and ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation.

Presentation

Presented annually at the Design Automation Conference (DAC).

Historical Background

A. Richard Newton, one of the foremost pioneers and leaders of the EDA field, passed away on 2 January 2007, of pancreatic cancer at the age of 55.

A. Richard Newton was professor and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Newton was educated at the University of Melbourne and received his bachelor’s degree in 1973 and his master’s degree in 1975. In the early 1970’s he began to work on SPICE, a simulation program initially developed by Larry Nagel and Donald Pederson to analyze and design complex electronic circuitry with speed and accuracy. In 1978, Newton earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley.

For his research and entrepreneurial contributions to the electronic design automation industry, he was awarded the 2003 Phil Kaufman Award, the highest recognition for contributions to the EDA field. In 2004, he was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2006, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Basis for Judging

The impact of the paper which has made an outstanding technical contribution in the scope of electronic design automation through a paper published at least ten years before the award is presented. The award shall be based on the impact of the paper in the field of electronic design automation published ten years or more before the year the award is presented.

Eligibility

Open to authors of a paper in the field of electronic design automation published ten years or more before the award is presented. The paper must have passed through a peer-review process before publication, be an archived conference or journal publication available from or published by either ACM or IEEE, and be a seminal paper where an original idea was first described. Follow-up papers and extended descriptions of the work may be cited in the nomination, but the award is given for the initial original contribution.

Nomination Deadline
28 February

2024

Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Title

Mircea Stan

Affiliation
University of Virginia
IEEE Region
Region 03 (Southeastern U.S.)
Email
Country
USA
Affiliation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
IEEE Region
Region 01 (Northeastern U.S.)
Email
Paper

2023

Recipient(s)

2022

Recipient(s)
Affiliation
Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MacVicar Teaching fellow, MIT
Email

2021

Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Affiliation
IBM Research Division, Retired
IEEE Region
Region 01 (Northeastern U.S.)
Country
USA
Affiliation
IBM, Retired
IEEE Region
Region 01 (Northeastern U.S.)
Paper

2020

Recipient(s)
Country
CHE
Title

Luca Benini

Affiliation
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
IEEE Region
Region 08 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)
Email
Paper

2019

Photo
2019 Newton Presentation Photo
Recipient(s)

VP Awards, Subhasish Mitra, Thomas W. Williams, and ACM SiGDA Chair David Pan

Citation

For seminal contributions to modern VLSI placement optimization research impacting both academia and industrial practices.

2018

Recipient(s)
Country
DEU
Affiliation
PDF Solutions GmbH
IEEE Region
Region 08 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)
Citation

For seminal contributions to VLSI placement impacting academic and industrial practices.

2017

Photo
2017 Newton Presentation Photo
Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
IEEE Region
Region 06 (Western U.S.)
Email
Country
USA
Title

Sharad Malik

Affiliation
Princeton University
IEEE Region
Region 01 (Northeastern U.S.)
Email

S. Malik, L. Zhang, and VP Awards H. Onodera

Citation

For seminal contributions to scalable Boolean satisfiability solving including locality-based search and efficient backtracking.

2016

2015

Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Affiliation
MIT
IEEE Region
Region 01 (Northeastern U.S.)

2014

Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Affiliation
Stanford University
IEEE Region
Region 06 (Western U.S.)

2013

Recipient(s)
Affiliation
Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MacVicar Teaching fellow, MIT
Email
Paper

2012

Recipient(s)
Paper
Citation

For advancing the theory and implementation of model order reduction for efficient circuit analysis via dominant pole/zero methods.

2011

Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Title

Jason Cong

Affiliation
University of California, Los Angeles
IEEE Region
Region 06 (Western U.S.)
Email
Website
Paper
Citation

For pioneering work on technology mapping for FPGA (field-programmable gate array) that has made a significant impact on the FPGA research community and industry.

2010

Paper
Citation

For developing Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams forming the foundation for symbolic manipulation of logic designs with broad impacts in academia and industry.

2009

Recipient(s)
Country
USA
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
IEEE Region
Region 06 (Western U.S.)
Paper
Citation

For seminal contributions to multilevel logic optimization impacting research, education, and industrial practice.