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The Semiconductor Business Affiliation (SIA) introduced Aart de Geus, Synopsys government chair and founder, would be the 2024 recipient of SIA’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award.
The chip {industry}’s commerce group offers the Noyce Award, named after Intel’s founding CEO Robert N. Noyce, yearly in recognition of a pacesetter who has made excellent contributions to the semiconductor {industry} in know-how or public coverage.
The ceremony for de Geus will happen on the SIA Awards Dinner on November 21, 2024, in San Jose, California.
“A universally respected leader and visionary in the semiconductor industry, Aart pioneered groundbreaking electronic design automation (EDA) technology, which provides the software tools central to designing chips,” mentioned John Neuffer, SIA president and CEO, in an announcement. “During a career
spanning over four decades, Aart has made immeasurable contributions to our industry and has
served as a powerful and influential advocate for our priorities. We are thrilled to recognize him
with the 2024 Robert N. Noyce Award for his landmark achievements.”
Synopsys is now far more invaluable than when de Geus began the corporate within the Eighties. Earlier this 12 months, Synopsys introduced it might purchase Ansys for $35 billion.
De Geus began his profession at Basic Electrical in 1982, the place he developed foundational instruments for design and verification in semiconductors. Synopsys, which Aart based in 1986, initially developed and broadly commercialized logic synthesis, which automates the creation of digital designs from language descriptions.
This functionality transitioned the computer-aided Design (CAD) into the digital design automation (EDA) period by enabling and automating a long time of monumental, digital complexity scaling, also known as Moore’s Regulation. Below the legislation, named after former Intel chief Gordon Moore, chips doubled the variety of elements each couple of years. It created a relentless metronome for progress for many years, as chips are the inspiration of all the things digital.
De Geus served as the corporate’s CEO from 1994 to 2024. In recognition of his pioneering work, {industry} affect, and group service, de Geus has obtained quite a few honors, together with Digital Enterprise Journal’s “CEO of the Year” (2002) and “Top 10 Most Influential Executives” (2005), the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (2007), the Silicon Valley Management Group (SVLG) “Spirit of the Valley” Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), the Digital System Design Affiliation (ESDA) Phil Kaufman Award (2008), the GSA “Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award” (2009), the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Corridor
of Fame Award (2013), and an honorary Ph.D. from Glasgow College (2022).
De Geus now serves as government chair of Synopsys’ board of administrators, the place he continues to
oversee the administration of Synopsys enterprise operations. He additionally serves on the board of administrators of Utilized Supplies and is lively within the enterprise and area people. He serves on the boards of the Silicon Valley Management Group (SVLG), the World Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and the Digital System Design Alliance (ESDA).
De Geus can be a member of the US Nationwide Academy of Engineering. In 1999, he created the Synopsys Outreach Basis, which promotes project-based science and math studying all through Silicon Valley, in early recognition of the long run scarcity of engineering workforce within the high-tech {industry}. For over 35 years, Synopsys has additionally actively pushed group engagements in its main worldwide areas.
De Geus obtained a grasp’s diploma in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Know-how in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist College, Dallas.
“Receiving the 2024 Noyce Award is a great honor and I’m humbled to be among exceptional individuals recognized for lasting contributions to our uniquely exponential industry,” mentioned de Geus, in an announcement. “Looking back, the shift from CAD to EDA was truly a techonomic watershed that enabled a roughly 10-million-times increase in digital design productivity.”
De Geus added, “By fully embracing 3D multi-die integration, semi technology has now graduated from scale- to systemic-complexity! Propelled by the demand-economics of AI, and enabled by amazing, AI-powered design flows, we are fully launched into the next exponential era! It is so energizing to feel the multi-decade opportunity that is surrounding us and to be part of our industry’s collective ingenuity, that makes the impossible, possible… again and again!”
Previous winners embrace Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron Know-how (2023), Lip-Bu Tan of Cadence Design Techniques (2022), Jensen Huang of Nvidia (2021), Lisa Su of AMD (2020) and lots of extra going again to 1991.
