SRC graduate student Karthik Aadithya wins First Place (in the Graduate Research Category) at the Grand Finals of the ACM Student research competition. This award is for his work on ABCD (Accurate Booleanization of Continuous Systems). He had become eligible for the Grand Finals competition after winning the Gold Medal last year in the Design Automation category. Aadithya is a student at the University of California, Berkeley, on Task 1836.094 – Accurate FSM Approximations of Analog/RF Systems for Debugging Mixed-Signal Designs, supervised by Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury. This task is part of SRC's Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE).