Accellera Technical Excellence Award

Karsten Einwich Honored with 2025 Technical Excellence Award

Karsten Einwich, a member of the SystemC AMS Working Group, is the recipient of the 2025 Accellera Technical Excellence Award. He has played a pivotal role in advancing the SystemC AMS standard. His work began within the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), which later became part of Accellera. Karsten contributed to the definition of the SystemC AMS standard, IEEE Std. 1666.1, and he delivered a standard-compatible reference implementation to support the deployment and adoption of SystemC AMS as the first standardized and open system-level modeling language for mixed-signal applications.

“Karsten’s contributions to the advancement of the SystemC AMS standard have been instrumental in enriching the SystemC ecosystem,” stated Martin Barnasconi, Accellera Technical Committee Chair. “His deep expertise in mixed-signal system modeling and SystemC brings tremendous value to the community. Moreover, his unwavering dedication to developing the SystemC AMS proof-of-concept implementation exemplifies the successful coexistence of open source contributions and commercial EDA offerings. It is my distinct honor to present Karsten with the 2025 Technical Excellence Award.”

The Technical Excellence Award was established to recognize the outstanding achievements of an individual among Accellera’s working group members and their significant contributions to the development of its standards. For more information, read the press release.

About the Technical Excellence Award

Accellera Systems Initiative wishes to recognize the outstanding achievements of its working group members by selecting outstanding contributors to our standards development process as recipients of the Accellera Systems Initiative Technical Excellence Award.

This annual award recognizes major contributions to the development of Accellera standards. Examples of such contributions may include leadership in standardization of new technologies, assuring achievement of standards development goals, and identifying opportunities to better serve the needs of the community through standards.

The recipient of the Technical Excellence Award is recognized at DVCon U.S.

Eligibility

Any member of an Accellera Working Group is eligible for the award.

Candidates can be nominated by Working Group chairs and are endorsed and selected by participants of the Accellera Technical Excellence Award Committee, which is a subcommittee of the Technical Committee.

Nominations must include the following information:

• The candidate's name, email address, and affiliation
• Brief description of the specific achievements that justify the award (supporting documents are optional)
• Why those achievements are important to the industry
• Your name, email address, and affiliation

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Past Recipients