Best Paper in the Front-End Design Category
Session 10.5: "The Synthesis of Cyclic Combinational Circuits"
Marc D. Riedel, Jehoshua Bruck - Caltech, Pasadena, CA
An Innovative Approach in Logic Synthesis

Two Best Papers in the Back-End Design Category
Session 8.1: "Random Walks in a Supply Network"
Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif - Univ. of Minneasota, Minneapolis, MN
Sachin S. Sapatnekar - IBM Corp., Austin, TX
A Promising Approach in Analyzing Power Distribution

Session: 29.1: "NORM: Compact Model Order Reduction of Weakly Nonlinear Systems"
Peng Li, Lawrence T. Pileggi - Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Excellent Results in the Analysis of Non-linear Circuits

Best Paper in the Embedded-Systems Category
Session 15.3: "Automatic Application-Specific Instruction-Set Extensions under Microarchitectural Constraints"
Kubilay Atasu, Laura Pozzi, Paolo Ienne - Swiss Federal institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
A Promising Approach to Reconfigurable Processor Design