L. Curtis Widdoes Jr

Dr. Widdoes is a chief engineering scientist at Mentor Graphics Corporation. Dr. Widdoes has an outstanding track-record developing and successfully commercializing new electronic design technologies and is widely recognized as a pioneer of the EDA industry. Widdoes began his career at Lawrence Livermore National Labratory in 1976 as the technical director of the S-1 Project, which developed the original SCALD software and used it to design advanced computers. He later received the IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award for the SCALD methodology, which the award calls "the basis for the CAE industry." Based on this technology, Dr. Widdoes cofounded Valid Logic Systems in 1981. In 1996, Dr. Widdoes co-founded 0-In Design Automation which pioneered assertion-based verifiction and formal verification for the design of integrated circuits. He holds a B.S. in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. A recipient of numerous awards including the Jack E. Froelich Award for outstanding scholarship, Dr. Widdoes currently holds twelve U.S. patents in EDA.