Donald E. Thomas

Donald E. Thomas received the Ph.D. degree in 1977 from the Carnegie Mellon. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering there, working in the area of single-chip heterogeneous multiprocessor systems, and hardware/software co-design. He is co-author of the book "The Verilog Hardware Description Language Fifth Edition" which has been translated into Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. From 1985 to 1986 he was a Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He was chair of the 1989 Design Automation Conference. He has been on the editorial board of IEEE Design and Test Magazine, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and ACM's Transactions on Embedded Systems, and on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors.  He has been chair of the CODES/CASHE-96 Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-design and is now Steering Committee Chair for the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE "For contributions to automatic design of integrated circuits and systems, and to education in computer engineering."