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Awards

The Tibbetts Award for outstanding entrepreneurship was presented to ASC during the SBA's first annual selection in 1996. NASA recognized ASC with the Excellence in Engineering award for the Northeast Region in 1997.

Standards

ASC supports the worldwide EDA standards development process through internal research aimed at producing better design methodologies. Alex N. D. Zamfirescu, VP Engineering serves as IEC USNC Technical Adviser for DA Standards, where he proposed a workshop on XML in EDA (to be tentatively hosted by NIST in May 2000). To further broaden advocacy for the use of XML in EDA, Mr. Zamfirescu joined the ebXML (United Nations-OASIS) technical architecture team.

HXML

In 1998 ASC and its consultants at Orionic pioneered a technology based on combining XML with the HDLs used in EDA even before anybody knew what exactly XML meant. At that time, for example, the SI2 ECIX effort was still based on SGML, and nobody accepted the idea that XML is meant for exchange of EDA data. At DAC '99 ASC demonstrated how schematics can be displayed out of XML files. The use of XML in EDA is catching on. For example, see http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20000215S0014 published in early 2000.