The IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits is a Technical Field Award of the

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(IEEE). It was previously called the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award. In November 2005 the award was renamed to honor

Donald O. Pederson Donald Oscar Pederson (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the designers of SPICE, a simulator for integrated circuits that has been u ...

. He was one of the co-founders of the

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, and was a driving force behind the initiation of the

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. Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, a certificate and an honorarium. This award is given for "outstanding contributions to

solid-state circuit Solid-state electronics means semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment using semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs). The term is also used as an adjective for devices in which semiconductor el ...

s, as exemplified by benefit to society, enhancement to technology, and professional leadership". The award may be presented to an individual, or a team of up to three people.

Recipients

The following people received this award as the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits: * 2021: A. Paul Brokaw * 2020:

Klaas Bult Klaas Bult (born Marienberg, The Netherlands June 26, 1959) is a Dutch electrical engineer. He once worked for Broadcom Corporation. Bult was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his contr ...

* 2019:

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* 2018:

William S. Carter William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conqu ...

* 2018: Stephen M. Trimberger * 2017:

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* 2017: John S. Thompson * 2016: Miles A. Copeland * 2015:

Robert Whitlock Adams Robert Whitlock Adams is a Technical Fellow at Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in Wilmington, Massachusetts. His focus is on signal processing and analog-to-digital conversion for professional audio. He is a leader in the development of sigma-delta ...

* 2014: Robert G. Meyer * 2013: Anantha P. Chandrakasan * 2012:

Behzad Razavi Behzad Razavi ( fa, بهزاد رضوی) is an Iranian-American professor and researcher of electrical and electronic engineering. Noted for his research in communications circuitry, Razavi is the director of the Communication Circuits Laborato ...

* 2011: Willy Sansen * 2010: Takayasu Sakurai * 2009:

Teresa H. Meng Teresa Huai-Ying Meng (; born 1961) is a Taiwanese-American academician and entrepreneur. She is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emerita, at Stanford University, and founder of Atheros Communications, a wireless semico ...

* 2008:

Asad A. Abidi Asad Ali Abidi (born July 12, 1956) is a Pakistani-American electrical engineer. He serves as a tenured professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and is the inaugural holder of the Abdus Salam Chair at the Lahore University of Manage ...

* 2007: Hugo De Man * 2006:

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The following people received this award as the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award: * 2005: Bruce A. Wooley * 2004: Eric A. Vittoz * 2003: Daniel W. Dobberpuhl * 2002: Ping-Keung Ko * 2002: Chenming Calvin Hu * 2001: No Award * 2000: Hung-Fai (Stephen) Law * 2000: Robert H. Krambeck * 1999: Kensall D. Wise * 1998: Nicky C. Lu * 1997:

Robert W. Brodersen Robert W. Brodersen (born November 1, 1945) is a professor of electrical engineering, now emeritus, and a founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) at the University of California, Berkeley. Brodersen received his B.S. in electrical ...

* 1996: Rudy J. van de Plassche * 1995: Lewis M. Terman * 1994: Paul R. Gray * 1993: Kiyoo Itoh * 1992: Barrie Gilbert * 1991:

Frank Wanlass Frank Marion Wanlass (May 17, 1933 in Thatcher, AZ – September 9, 2010 in Santa Clara, California) was an American electrical engineer. He is best known for inventing CMOS (complementary MOS) logic with Chih-Tang Sah in 1963. CMOS has sinc ...

* 1990: Toshiaki Masuhara * 1989: James D. Meindl

References

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