Nationality USA Name Donald Pederson Fields Electronic Engineer Role Engineer | ||
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Institutions University of California Berkeley Alma mater North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University), Stanford University Died December 25, 2004, Concord, California, United States Books Analog integrated circuits for communication Education Stanford University (1949–1951), North Dakota State University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, IEEE Medal of Honor Similar People A Richard Newton, Joseph M Pettit, Bruce Wooley | ||
Doctoral advisor Joseph M. Pettit Residence United States of America Doctoral students A. Richard Newton | ||
The Life of SPICE, Dr. Laurence Nagel, Omega Enterprises, 2019 IEEE Donald Pederson Award Recipient
Donald Oscar Pederson (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.
Contents
- The Life of SPICE Dr Laurence Nagel Omega Enterprises 2019 IEEE Donald Pederson Award Recipient
- Biography
- Awards
- References
Biography
Born in Hallock, Minnesota, Dr. Pederson entered Iowa State College in the autumn of 1943, but then left for the military during World War II. He served as a private in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1943 to 1946. Upon his return from service, he continued his undergraduate education at North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University) and earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1948. He then attended Stanford University for graduate school, where he received his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1951.
Pederson remained at Stanford as a researcher in the university's electronics research lab. From 1953 to 1955, he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and lectured at Newark College of Engineering. In 1955, Pederson joined the faculty of the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. In the early 1970s he began work on SPICE, with his colleagues from the Electronic Research Lab. He retired in 1991, but continued to teach part-time.
Pederson died on December 25, 2004 in Concord, California, of complication from Parkinson's Disease.
Awards
Pederson is member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.