Hugo De Man Awarded for Leadership in Integrated Circuit Design and Design Methodology, Founder of IMEC recognized with highest SSCS award

Hugo De Man, Professor Emeritus of K.U.Leuven, Belgium will receive the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Technical Field Award in Solid-State Circuits at the ISSCC in San Francisco, CA on 12 February 2007. His contributions to the development of innovative design methodologies and related EDA tools have facilitated the design of multi-million-transistor chips and led IMEC (the Inter-University Microelectronics Center) and K.U. Leuven to preeminence in microelectronics research in Europe.