ACM/IEEE Newton Award Presented to Jason Cong and Eugene Ding

Congratulations to long-time SRC supported (both GRC and FCRP programs) researcher, Professor Jason Cong and his former  Ph.D. student Dr. Eugene Ding (now with Xilinx). They received this year’s ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation at the opening session of the 48th Design Automation Conference.  The award was given for “pioneering work on technology mapping for FPGA that has made a significant impact on the FPGA research community and industry,” as evidenced by a paper published at least ten years prior to the award.  Prof. Cong and Dr. Ding are honored for 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).