Jun 10, 2011
Jason Cong awarded for outstanding electronic design automation
Jason Cong, Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, received this year’s A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation from the Association of Computer Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE). He shares the award with his former Ph.D. student, Eugene Ding, now with Xilinx.
The prestigious award recognizes individuals for an outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidenced by a paper published at least 10 years before the presentation of the award. The award is based on the impact of the contribution in the subsequent years.
Cong and Ding received the award 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,” as evidenced by their paper “FlowMap: An Optimal Technology Mapping Algorithm for Delay Optimization in Lookup-Table Based FPGA Designs” (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, vol 13, no. 1, pp. 1-12, January 1994).
