According to a Tsividis colleague, said Terman, “Dr. Tsividis’ textbook, ‘Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor,’ along with his constant preaching to the CAD community about the inadequacy of MOSFET models for analog design, was instrumental in the creation of the models such as the EKV and other compact models. It is ironic that the best reference on MOS transistor modeling was written by a circuits guy.” IEEE Field Awards Ceremony during the Plenary Session of ISSCC'07 in San Francisco on 12 February 2007