This year, awards are made for the best papers in three categories. Winners were determined from detailed reviews of the accepted papers in the technical sessions. Each award is accompanied by a plaque. The awards are given by ACM/SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation), IEEE/CASS (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Circuits and Systems Society) and EDA Consortium (Electronic Design Automation Consortium).

DESIGN TOOLS
Paper 4.3:
Guaranteed Passive Balancing Transformations for Model Order Reduction
Joel R. Phillips - Cadence Berkeley Labs., San Jose, CA
Luca Daniel - Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
Miguel Silveira - INESC, Lisboa, Portugal

DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Paper 29.2
Remembrance of Circuits Past: Macromodeling by Data Mining in Large Analog Design Spaces
Hongzhou Liu, Amit Singhee, Rob A. Rutenbar, L. Richard Carley - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Paper 3.1
A Universal Technique for Fast and Flexible Instruction-Set Architecture Simulation
Achim Nohl, Gunnar Braun, Andreas Hoffmann, Oliver Schliebusch, Rainer Leupers, Heinrich Meyr - Aachen Univ. of Technology, Aachen, Germany