Phil Moorby

Phil Moorby (* in Birmingham ) is an English engineer and computer scientist who is best known for the invention of the hardware description language Verilog.

He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Southampton. He received his Master's in 1974 from the University of Manchester in computer science. He then completed a PhD at Brunel University in West London.

Moorby in 1983 went to the United States to there in the company Automated Integrated Design Systems (later Gateway Design Automation) participate in the development of the Verilog hardware description language, which came to market in 1985. In the years 1985 to 1990, the team developed to Moorby the logic simulator Verilog -XL, which became the industry standard.

In 1990, the company Gateway Design Automation was acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Moorby joined Cadence, where he worked first continue on the simulation of Verilog systems. When the Verilog VHDL competitor gained acceptance, Cadence oriented more to VHDL and Moorby was assigned to a project to VHDL. Moorby left Cadence in 1992 and turned tentatively to other areas - among other things, he developed software to determine camera position and depth from video sequences. Then he turned back to the electronic design automation. He was technical advisor to the company, founded in 1997 Co - Design Automation, which he joined in 1998 to work on the hardware description language Superlog. Co - Design Automation was acquired in 2001 by Synopsys, where Superlog was used as the basis for an object-oriented language extension of Verilog.

For his contribution to Electronic Design Automation Moorby in 2005, was Phil Kaufman Award.