Gary Smith (March 9, 1941 – July 3, 2015[1][2][3]) was a veteran electronic design automation (EDA) business analyst.
He graduated with a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
[4] 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.
[2] Joining LSI Logic, he became a CAD methodologist implementing the then novel register-transfer level (RTL) design methodology.
[10] 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".