The Student Research Forum (SRF) at ASP-DAC 2026 was a vibrant showcase of emerging research and student innovation. This year, the forum received 39 submissions, with 29 posters accepted—a record-high number for the SRF—and three awards presented to recognize outstanding contributions across research quality, presentation, and community engagement. 🏆 SRF Award Winners Best Poster Award… Read more: Student Research Forum at ASPDAC 2026 — Highlights and Award Winners

ACM SIGDA/IEEE CEDA University Demonstration (UD, previously University Booth) is an excellent opportunity for university researchers to showcase their results and to interact with participants at the Design Automation Conference (DAC). Presenters and attendees at DAC are especially encouraged to participate, but participation is open to all members of the university community. The demonstrations include… Read more: 2025 University Demonstration at Design Automation Conference

HACK@DAC 2023 consists of 2 phases, a Qualifying Round and a Live Round. The Qualifying Round was open to all participants and ended in mid-May. Top teams from the Qualifying Round were invited to participate in the Live Competition on July 9-10 at the Design Automation Conference (#DAC60) in San Francisco, CA. Teams had 48… Read more: 2023 Hardware Security Challenge Contest @ Design and Automation Conference (HACK@DAC)

CADathlon 2023 will be held as an in-person event. Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023  08:00 AM – 05:00 PM, In-Person Gallery Ballroom, The Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown SoMa, San Francisco, CA, USA The contest is open to two-person teams of undergraduate/graduate students specializing in CAD and currently full-time enrolled in a Ph.D. granting institution in any country.… Read more: 2023 CADathlon @ ICCAD

SIGDA Live is a series of webinars, launched monthly or bi-monthly, on topics (either technical or non-technical) of general interest to the SIGDA community. The talks in general fall on the last Wednesday of a month, and last about 45 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&A. Speaker and topic nominations are welcome and should be sent… Read more: 2023 SIGDA LIVE webinars

The DAC System Design Contest focuses on object detection and classification on an embedded GPU or FPGA system. Contestants will receive a training dataset provided by Baidu, and a hidden dataset will be used to evaluate the performance of the designs in terms of accuracy and speed. Contestants will compete to create the best performing… Read more: 2023 System Design Contest at Design Automation Conference (DAC-SDC’23)

The Student Research Forum at the ASP-DAC is renovated from a traditional poster session hosted by ACM SIGDA for PhD students to present and discuss their dissertations with experts in the design automation community. Starting from 2015, the forum includes both PhD and MS students, offering great opportunity for the students to establish contacts for… Read more: 2022 Student Research Forum at ASPDAC (SRF@ASPDAC)

The Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference is a poster session hosted by ACM SIGDA and IEEE CEDA for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation research with people in the EDA community. It has become one of the premier forums for Ph.D. students in design automation to get feedback on their research and to connect with other… Read more: 2022 Ph.D. Forum DAC

ACM SIGDA/IEEE CEDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC 2021 is virtually co-located with DAC’21. Program Session I – December 6, 2021 10AM-11AM Pacific Time 1.1 M.SALAH: Mechanism for Simulation-Assisted Layout PArtitioning and Analysis of Hotspots Sherif Mousa 1.2 Fully Automated High Power Amplifier Design: From Transistor Selection to Post-layout Generation Lida Kouhalvandi 1.3 Designing Data-Aware Network-on-Chip… Read more: 2021 PhD Forum @ DAC

We are thrilled to announce Design Automation WebiNar (DAWN) to drive research momentum and ensure our community remains at the cutting edge. Different from conventional keynote and individual speaker webinars, DAWN is a special-session-style webinar. DAWN is formed by multiple presentations on focused topics by leading experts in our community. Recent events: For more information,… Read more: 2020 Design Automation WebiNar (DAWN)

Problem 1: Circuit Design and AnalysisContributed by Jianlei Yang, Beihang UniversityOverview: Solve Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation (in C++)Reference: Iwasaki, Junichi, Masahito Mochizuki, and Naoto Nagaosa. “Current-induced skyrmion dynamics in constricted geometries,” Nature nanotechnology 8.10 (2013): 742. Problem 2: Physical Design & Design for ManufacturabilityContributed by William Chow, CadenceOverview: Tap assignment for gated clock network (in C++)Reference:… Read more: CADathlon 2019 Problem References

Winners in the graduate category 1st Stefan Hillmich Johannes Kepler University Linz “Decision Diagrams for Quantum Computing“ 2nd Justin Sanchez UNC Charlotte “Architectures Leveraging Edge and Real-time Template Systems“ 3rd Mengchu Li Technical University of Munich “High-Level Synthesis for Microfluidics Large-Scale Integration“ Winners in the undergraduate category 1st Milind Srivastava Indian Institute of Technology Madras… Read more: 2019 ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD (SRC@ICCAD’19)

Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students who are ACM members to: This Year’s Results (2021) Undergraduate category (8 participants in total): 1st place: Zizheng Guo, Peking University Presentation Title: Accelerating Static Timing Analysis with Parallel and Heterogeneous Computing 2nd place: Cynthia Chen,… Read more: 2021 ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD (SRC@ICCAD’21)

ACM/SIGDA Guide to Running or Starting a Conference, Symposium, or Workshop Revised on May 1, 2020 ACM/SIGDA sponsors a number of conferences, symposia, and workshops, which will be referred to generically as events. The event staff are almost always volunteers, and those involved change on a yearly basis. The purpose of this guide is to… Read more: Organizers Guide

Welcome to the CADathlon @ ICCAD, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018  8 am – 5 pm, Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa,  San Diego, CA. The CADathlon is a challenging, all-day, programming competition focusing on practical problems at the forefront of Computer-Aided Design,and Electronic Design Automation in particular. The contest emphasizes the knowledge of algorithmic techniques for CADapplications,problem-solving and… Read more: 2018 CADathlon @ ICCAD’18

DEADLINE: September 02, 2018 Online Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srciccad18 Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students who are ACM members to: The ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM SIGDA) is organizing such an event in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). Authors of accepted submissions… Read more: 2018 ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD (SRC@ICCAD’18)

The Design Automation Summer School (DASS) is a one-day intensive course on research and development in design automation (DA). Each topic in this course will be covered by a distinguished speaker who will define the topic, describe recent accomplishments, and indicate remaining challenges. Interactive discussions and follow-up activities among the participants will be used to… Read more: 2018 Design Automation Summer School at DAC (DASS)