CEDA Currents is a publication of IEEE CEDA. Please send contributions to Jose L. Ayala (jayala@fdi.ucm.es ) or Rajesh Gupta. © 2010 IEEE. All rights reserved. A New Term Has Started Dear members of our professional community: The IEEE Council on EDA is now four years old and has started several new activities and initiatives. It is good to see an IEEE organization solely dedicated to the needs of our community. The list of past accomplish- ments is long and ranges from sponsoring key confer- ences and workshops, to organizing special events and lectures, to creating awards targeted to our profession. I would like to thank the outgoing leadership for their great effort and dedication in making CEDA successful. In January 2010, a new two-year term began, and the new officers are ramping up their activities as I write these words. We have established the new standing commit- tees, which will carry out the bulk of CEDA’s work in the various domains. I would like to thank all the volun- teers for offering their valuable time and effort to help our community and make CEDA a success. Congratulations, best wishes, and great success for the 2010-2011 term! Andreas Kuehlmann, president VLSI-SoC 2010 The 18th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip explores the state of the art and new developments in very large-scale integration (VLSI), SoCs, and their designs. VLSI-SoC provides a forum for exchanging ideas and presenting industrial and research results in VLSI and ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) systems, SoC design, VLSI CAD, and microelectronic design and test. This year, VLSI-SoC will host four outstanding keynote speakers. Subhasish Mitra (Stanford University) will give the first talk on Monday, 27 September. Mitra works on robust system design, VLSI design, CAD, validation and test, and design for emerging technologies. On the same day, Nikil Dutt (University of California, Irvine) will give the second talk. Dutt’s research focuses on embedded systems and CAD. On 28 September, Giovanni De Micheli (École Poly- technique Fédérale de Lausanne) will present the third talk. De Micheli’s research focuses on various aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, as well as systems on heterogeneous platforms (including electrical, microelectromechanical, and biological com- ponents). On 29 September, Sani Nassif (IBM) will pre- sent the fourth keynote talk. Nassif’s research focuses on design-technology coupling, statistical modeling, statisti- cal technology characterization, and similar areas. VLSI-SoC 2010 will be held in Madrid, where some ex- citing social events are planned. See http://www.vlsi- soc.com for details. Jose L. Ayala, jayala@fdi.ucm.es 2010 EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award The European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement Award is given to indi- viduals who have made outstanding contributions to the state of the art in electronic design, automation, and test of electronic systems. To be eligible, candidates must have made innovative contributions that impact the way electronic systems are designed. Past recipients include Kurt Antreich (2003), Hugo De Man (2004), Jochen Jess (2005), Robert Brayton (2006), Tom W. Williams (2007), Ernest S. Kuh (2008), and Jan M. Rabaey (2009). The winner of this year’s award is Daniel D. Gajski, who is a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engi- neering and Computer Science at the University of Cali- fornia, Irvine, where he also holds the Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Computer System Design and directs the Center for Embedded Computer Systems. Before coming to UCI, Gajski spent 10 years in industry, focus- ing on digital circuits, supercomputing, and VLSI design, and another 10 years in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He has a Dipl Ing and an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and a PhD in computer and information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. March 2010