Phil Moorby
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Phil Moorby is a United States engineer and computer scientist.
Moorby received his Masters in computer science from Manchester University, England in 1974.
While working in Gateway Design Automation, in 1984 he invented the Verilog hardware description language, and developed the first and industry standard simulator Verilog-XL. In 1990 Gateway was purchased by Cadence Design Systems. In 1999 Moorby joined Co-Design Automation and in 2002 he joined Synopsys to work on SystemVerilog verification language.
On October 10, 2005 Moorby became the recipient of the 2005 Phil Kaufman Award for his contributions to the EDA industry, specifically for development and popularization of Verilog, one of the world's most popular tools of electronic design automation.
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