Abstract :
Since its founding in 2005, the Council on Electronic Design Automation has sponsored an impressive list of publications, conferences, workshops, and new activities focused on advancing the EDA profession. Today, CEDA is a financially sound, permanent council of the IEEE thanks to Al Dunlop, its creator and first president, its officers and committee chairs. Newly elected Executive Committee members are John Darringer (President), Andreas Kuehlmann, (President-Elect), Al Dunlop (Past President and Nominations Committee Chair), Soha Hassoun (Vice President of Activities), Bill Joyner (Vice President of Conferences and acting Awards Committee Chair), Donatella Sciuto (Vice President of Finance), Rajesh Gupta (Vice President of Publications) and David Atienza (Secretary).