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Ieee-Sscs-Magazine.Pdf Authorized licensed use limited to: Univ of Calif Berkeley. Downloaded on August 15,2010 at 19:28:43 UTC from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. SUMMER 2010 VOL. 2 • NO. 3 www.ieee.org/sscs-news FEATURES 6 Corsi e Ricorsi: The EDA Story A design pioneer reflects on the technical, economic, human, and philosophical history of his craft. By Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Grasping Systems Design By Albert Benveniste Getting Acquainted with Prof. Parsley By Piero Martinotti Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground By Massimo Vanzi Industrial Influence: Sangiovanni as Entrepreneur and Consigliere By Michael Borrus ABOUT THIS IMAGE: More information about this colorful object can be found in 26 Summer of ’81 the article by Gelsinger et al. At IBM, a group of industrial engineers and university researchers collaborated in the summer to develop the earliest successful method of logic synthesis for ICs. By Robert Brayton 32 Such a CAD! Coping with the complexity of microprocessor COLUMNS/ design at Intel. DEPARTMENTS By Patrick Gelsinger, Desmond Kirkpatrick, 3 CONTRIBUTORS Avinoam Kolodny, and Gadi Singer 4 EDITOR’S NOTE 44 Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli 62 PEOPLE and STMicroelectronics 73 CHAPTERS The 30-years’ peace. 76 SOCIETY NEWS By Philippe Geyres, Pasquale Pistorio, and Aldo Romano 77 IEEE NEWS 48 81 CONFERENCE REPORTS Presentation of the 2001 Phil Kaufman Award 94 CALENDAR to Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli 96 FOOTER By A. Richard Newton 52 Remembering Richard By Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2010.937685 IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 1 Authorized licensed use limited to: Univ of Calif Berkeley. Downloaded on August 15,2010 at 19:30:49 UTC from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. Administrator, Katherine Olstein Terms to 31 Dec. 2012 IEEE SOLID-STATE IEEE SSCS, 445 Hoes Lane Kerry Bernstein, John J. 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For other copying, reprint, or republication permission, write to: Copyrights and Permissions Depart- ment, IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway NJ 08854 USA Copyright © 2010 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. All rights reserved. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY, and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to A. SANGIOVANNI-VINCENTELLI. IEEE Solid-Sate Circuits Magazine, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA. Canadian ABOUT THE COVER: GST #125634188 PRINTED IN USA Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and the evolution of EDA. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2010.937948 2 SUMMER 2010 IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE Authorized licensed use limited to: Univ of Calif Berkeley. Downloaded on August 15,2010 at 19:30:49 UTC from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. CONTRIBUTORS ALBERTO SANGIO- ROBERT BRAYTON, PHILIPPE GEYRES VANNI-VINCENTELLI retired from the began his profession- holds the Edgar L. University of Cali- al career with IBM at and Harold H. Butt- fornia, Berkeley, has Corbeil-Essonnes, ner Chair of Electri- authored more than France, before join- cal Engineering and 450 technical papers ing the Schlumberg- Computer Sciences at the University and ten books on the analysis of er Group in 1980, working fi rst in oil of California at Berkeley, of which nonlinear networks, simulation and services and then at Fairchild Semi- he has been on the faculty since optimization of electrical circuits, conductors. 1976. logic synthesis, and formal design verifi cation. PASQUALE PISTORIO ALBERT BENVENISTE joined Motorola in received the CNRS PATRICK GELSINGER Italy, in 1967 and rose Silver Medal in 1990, has had numerous through the ranks to was elected an IEEE roles at Intel in near- become director of Fellow in 1991, and ly 30 years with the in ternational market- received the Grand company, including ing, based in Phoenix, Arizona. Prix France Telecom of the Académie fi rst-ever Intel CTO. des Sciences in 2008. ALDO ROMANO DESMOND KIRKPAT- joined SGS Micro- PIERO MARTINOTTI RICK was a member elettronica (a prede- is currently an inde- of the Pentium Pro cessor company to pendent technology and Pentium 4 mi- STMicroelectronics) business adviser. He croprocessor design as a designer of lin- began his career at teams, contributing ear integrated circuits (ICs) in 1965. SGS as an application to full-chip assembly and intercon- In 1970, Romano was appointed head and marketing engineer. nect performance management as of the Linear IC Design Department. well as to the specifi cation of Intel’s MASSIMO VANZI 130-nm process technology. has been an invited panelist or speaker AVINOAM KOLODNY, at several interna- in his 20 years at In- tional conferences and tel, pioneered static workshops including timing analysis of ICCAD, DATE, IPSoC, ESSDERC, and processors as the DAC. lead developer of the CLCD tool. MICHAEL BORRUS has focused much of GADI SINGER joined his academic and con- Intel in 1983 and has sulting work on how held a variety of se- business mo dels can nior technical and adjust to success- management posi- fully commercialize new technologies, tions, including vice exploit new opportunities, or adapt to president and CTO of Intel Communi- new competitors. cations Group. Digital Ob ject Id entifier 10.1109/MSSC.2010.937949 IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 3 Authorized licensed use limited to: Univ of Calif Berkeley. Downloaded on August 15,2010 at 19:32:29 UTC from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions apply. EDITOR’S NOTE Mary Lanzerotti Welcome to the Summer 2010 Issue! In the Summer 2010 and Fall 2010 is- ■ “Remembering Rich- The long-term goal sues, we are honored to feature the ard” by Alberto San- We are also delighted of this magazine is to I to present expert work of Alberto Sangiovanni-Vin- giovanni-Vincentelli.
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