Gary Smith

Gary Smith (March 9, 1941 – July 3, 2015 ) was a veteran electronic design automation (EDA) business analyst. He was chief analyst of Gary Smith EDA firm.

Biography Smith was born in Stockton, California, and grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He continued this tradition as an independent analyst.

Annually Smith also updated his so-called wallcharts where he visually listed out vendors organized by tool category.

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".

He died on July 3, 2015, in Flagstaff, Arizona, after a short bout of pneumonia. He had daughters Tamara and Kim from his first wife, Diana Lee Smith.