The EOS/ESD Symposium has presented its Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Presentation awards from the 2000 Symposium. The awards were presented September 11 during the annual awards breakfast at the 2001 Symposium in Portland, OR.

The Best Paper award was presented to James W. Miller, Michael G. Khazhinsky, and James C. Weldon, Motorola, Inc., Austin, TX for their paper Engineering the Cascoded NMOS Output Buffer for Maximum Vt1.

The Best Presentation award was presented to Koen Verhaege, Sarnoff Europe, Gistsel Belgium, and Christian Russ, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ for their paper Wafer Cost Reduction Through Design of High Performance Fully Silicided ESD Devices.

The Best Student Paper was presented to Jaesik Lee and Sung-Mo Kang from the University of Illinois, Urbana, for their paper Chip-Level Simulation for CDM Failures in Multi-Power ICs. The paper was co-authored by Yoonjong Huh , Jau-Wen Chen, and Peter Bendix of LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA.

The Best Paper and the Best Student paper are based on the technical content of the paper and are chosen by the Symposium's technical program committee. The Best Presentation is based on the presentation quality and style at the Symposium and is determined by the attendees.

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