Cadence Design Systems, Inc. President and CEO, Dr. Anirudh Devgan has been honoured with 2021 Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Electronic System Design (ESD).
Presented annually by the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), a SEMI Technology Community and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), Phil Kaufman award ceremony will be held on Thursday, March 10 at the GlassHouse in San Jose, California.
The award recognizes Dr. Anirudh’s extensive contributions to electronic design automation (EDA). He is a recognized leader in parallel and distributed computing and has made a broad impact in fields ranging from circuit simulation to statistical design and optimization, physical design and signoff, verification and hardware platforms, and system design and analysis. Dr. Anirudh’s groundbreaking contributions include not just the development of algorithms, but also successfully bringing to market commercial solutions that have gained widespread customer adoption throughout the industry.
“Anirudh has a truly rare combination of widely recognized research excellence, exceptional business impact and results, and outstanding leadership in the EDA industry,” said Lip-Bu Tan, former CEO and now Executive Chairman of Cadence, who nominated Dr. Devgan for this honor. “Anirudh’s overall contributions during his career spanning Carnegie Mellon, IBM, Magma and Cadence have significantly advanced the industry.”
“I have known Anirudh for over 20 years from his early days at IBM and have since closely followed his spectacular career in the industry,” said Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, The Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, a Cadence founder and a Kaufmann Award winner. “I know of hardly anyone in EDA who has that winning combination of bold vision and deep technical know-how, along with outstanding leadership and organizational skills. Leveraging these unique abilities, Anirudh has been able to constantly innovate in a mature field like EDA and bring to market a sequence of game-changing products that have delivered transformational business results.”
“On behalf of the ESD Alliance, I would like to congratulate Anirudh on receiving the 2021 Phil Kaufman award,” said Simon Segars, ESD Alliance Chairman and CEO of Arm Holdings. “His contributions in technical innovation have been foundational to bringing the EDA industry into the modern parallel and cloud computing era. Anirudh’s impact on the industry is well-recognized and celebrated with this distinguished honor.”
