Jingsheng Jason Cong (Chinese: 丛京生; born 1963 in Beijing) is a Chinese-born American computer scientist, educator, and serial entrepreneur.
His result in the early 1990s on depth-optimal mapping (FlowMap) for lookup-table based FPGAs[1] is a cornerstone of all FPGA logic synthesis tools used today.
This, together with the subsequent works on the cut-enumeration[2] and Boolean matching[3] based methods for FPGA mapping, led to a successful startup company Aplus Design Technologies (1998–2003) founded by Cong.
The best-known industry adoption example was Magma Design Automation, which was founded in 1997 aiming at achieving timing closure through physical synthesis.
[12] He received the 2010 IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical Achievement Award[13] "For seminal contributions to electronic design automation, especially in FPGA synthesis, VLSI interconnect optimization, and physical design automation", and also the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award[14] "For setting the algorithmic foundations for high-level synthesis of field programmable gate arrays".