Professor Anand Raghunathan and his co-authors were awarded the top cited paper award at the 20th anniversary of the Asia South-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), for their paper titled "Battery-Driven System Design: A New Frontier in Low Power Design".

ASP-DAC is one of three premier sister conferences (the others being DAC and DATE) in the area of electronic design automation, and serves the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most active regions of semiconductor design and fabrication in the world. For the 20th anniversary, ASP-DAC is recognizing the top authors of papers of papers published in its first 20 editions.

Professor Raghunathan's paper, published in 2002, envisioned the need to design battery-aware electronic systems, which aim to maximize the efficiency with which the battery is used, rather than simply minimize the power consumed by the load system.