Limor Fix

{{short description|Israeli electronic design automation engineer}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Limor Fix

| native_name = לימור פיקס

| native_name_lang = he

| fields = Electronic Design Automation

| workplaces = Intel

| alma_mater = Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Cornell University

| known_for = Formal verification languages, ForSpec

| awards = Marie Pistilli Award (2011)

}}

Limor Fix ({{Langx|he|לימור פיקס}}) is an Israeli electronic design automation engineer and executive, senior principal engineer and director of academic programs and research at Intel. Her research interests include formal verification languages. [https://cra.org/ccc/limor-fix/ "Limor Fix"], a profile at a Computing Community Consortium website

She has Ph.D in computer science from Technion. After that she did post-doc research at the Cornell University. In 1994 she joined Intel in Israel. Limor led the development of a new formal specification language, ForSpec, later donated by Intel to Accellera/IEEE. ForSpec influenced the IEEE 1850-Property Specification Language standard.

She is among the authors of the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits handbook.

Awards and recognition

  • 2011: Marie Pistilli Award[https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110418006308/en/Dr.-Limor-Fix-Receive-Marie-R.-Pistilli "Dr. Limor Fix to Receive Marie R. Pistilli Award for Contributions to the Advancement of Women in EDA at 48th DAC"] "... recognizes Dr. Fix's lengthy set of contributions to EDA, including the development of the ForSpec formal specification language, donated by Intel to Accellera and an important factor in the IEEE-1850 standard, and her work in the areas of SAT solvers and model checking for both hardware and distributed software systems".[https://www.edn.com/2011-mrp-award-dr-limor-fix/ "2011 MRP Award: Dr. Limor Fix], Electronic Design News, April 22, 2011

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