Rob Rutenbar Wins IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Industrial Pioneer Award

Carnegie Mellon Prof. Rob Rutenbar received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Industrial Pioneer Award June 5 at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego. Rutenbar was recognized for his pioneering contributions in developing academic and industrial research tools for commercial applications.

Following a decade of work, Rutenbar’s research contributed to the development of electronic design automation tools for structural, parametric and layout synthesis of analog/mixed integrated circuits, which are widely used in the semiconductor industry. Analog circuits connect digital computing chips with signals from the outside world and are critical in applications ranging from high definition televisions to cell phones.

With ECE colleague L. Richard Carley, Rutenbar co-founded Neolinear, Inc. in 1977 to commercialize his work. The Pittsburgh start-up was acquired in 2004 by Cadence Design.

“I’m particularly gratified at this recognition by the IEEE, as our technology is now built into the Cadence analog design flow, making it available and familiar to worldwide users,” Rutenbar said. “I believe the analog community has seen significant advances based on our work.”

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