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Gary Smith (March 9, 1941 – July 3, 2015) was a veteran electronic design automation (EDA) business analyst. He was chief analyst of Gary Smith EDA firm.

Biography

Smith was born in Stockton, California, and grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. After six years of active duty in Vietnam, he returned to civilian life as a salesperson for semiconductor companies including National Electronics, International Rectifier, TRW Inc., Signetics, Telmos, and Plessey. At Plessey, he transitioned to engineering management for ASICs.

Joining LSI Logic, he became a CAD methodologist implementing the then novel register-transfer level (RTL) design methodology.

From 1994 to 2006 he worked for the market research firm Dataquest (later known as Gartner Dataquest) as managing vice-president and chief analyst for EDA market analysis. From 2006 up to his death, he led his own market research firm, Gary Smith EDA.

He was known for his pre-Design Automation Conference Dataquest briefings with his "What to see at DAC" list. He continued this tradition as an independent analyst.

Annually Smith also updated his so-called wallcharts where he visually listed out vendors organized by tool category.

In 2007 he received an ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service award "in recognition for his contributions as Chief EDA Analyst at Gartner Dataquest for the past two decades".

He died on July 3, 2015, in Flagstaff, Arizona, after a short bout of pneumonia. Gary was married to Lori Kate Smith and they had son Casey. He had daughters Tamara and Kim from his first wife, Diana Lee Smith.

The Gary Smith Memorial Scholarship was set up at the San Jose State University.

References

1. ^ "In Loving Memory of Gary Smith" (retrieved July 6, 2015 )
2. ^ "Gary Smith Memorial Scholarship" Archived 2015-07-10 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved July 9, 2015)
3. ^ "In His Own Words – Gary Smith Biography" (retrieved November 4, 2019)
4. ^ 'Gary Smith EDA' website
5. "Gary Smith hails multi-platform design methodology" Archived 2012-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, by Dylan McGrath, eeTimes
6. ^ "SystemVerilog for Design Second Edition: A Guide to Using SystemVerilog for Hardware Design and Modeling", 2006, Springer, ISBN 0387333991, p. 412
7. "The "What to see at DAC" List", Gabe Moretti, 6/5/2008, eeTimes
8. "Gary Smith kicks off DAC with his industry commentary", Brian Bailey, eeTimes, 6/5/2012
9. DAC 2013: The Gary Smith EDA ‘what to see’ list is live by Paul Dempsy Tech Design Forum, May 21, 2013
10. Wallcharts
11. Gary Smith to receive ACM Award
12. "EDA industry analyst Gary Smith dies", By: Rick Nelson, technology journalist, July 6, 2015 (retrieved December 1, 2016)

• 1941 births
• 2015 deaths
• Electronic design automation people
• United States Naval Academy alumni