2025 University Demonstration at Design Automation Conference

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 new EDA tools, EDA tool applications, design projects, and instructional materials.

The University Demonstration will be held together with the Ph.D. Forum at DAC.

Date: June 22-25,  2025

Location: Moscone Center West, San Francisco

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submission should be made online at the Submission Site. Please upload a single PDF file that has the following:

  1. Title of your demonstration
  2. List of authors with their affiliations
  3. An extended abstract of up to 2 pages, excluding figures and references
  4.  A YouTube link to a 5-minute online video teaser. If you are not able to upload it to YouTube, please include another link to your video teaser.
  5. You may optionally attach a supporting paper.

Submission deadline: May 31, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE

Submission sitehttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uddac2025

Notification of Acceptance will be on Jun 5, 2025.

AWARD AND STUDENT SUPPORT INFORMATION

There will be three “University Demo Best Demonstration” awards and travel support for presenters up to $700 for each team to attend the University Demonstration event in person for the accepted submissions. 

The presenter will be provided full registration to this year’s DAC. 

The winners will be announced at the conference after the demonstration. The presenter will only be eligible for travel support if he/she does not receive any travel support from other events at DAC such as Ph.D. Forum or Young Fellowship.

First Place$1000
Second Place$750
Third Place$500

The teams whose submissions got accepted should do the following for UDDAC 2024.

1. The presenter’s name and title

2. In-person video demonstrations are mandatory and should include a brief title sequence identifying the name of the research group and university, the team members, and stating “University Demonstration at DAC 2024.” Otherwise, there is complete freedom in how a group wishes to present its work.

Organizing Committee

ChairSumitha George, North Dakota State University. e-mail
Co-chairNan Wu, George Washington University. e-mail
Vice ChairYi Sheng, University of South Florida. e-mail
Vice Co-ChairUmamaheswara Rao Tida, North Dakota State University. e-mail

2023 Hardware Security Challenge Contest @ Design and Automation Conference (HACK@DAC)

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 hours to find and exploit as many security vulnerabilities in the “buggy SoC” provided by the competition organizers. Points were awarded to teams that correctly identified security vulnerabilities in the design. Bonus points were earned when teams demonstrated clever use of automation in vulnerability detection and/or exploitation. Teams with the highest scores win.

                     DAC Award Ceremony on July 13, 2023.

Not Your Typical Capture-the-Flag (CTF)

To deliver an immersive, hands-on pre-silicon hacking experience, we prepared a sophisticated “buggy SoC” that incorporated industry-scale security features along with common security vulnerabilities that were inspired by real-world product issues. In addition, we enabled each team with a set of powerful commercial-grade EDA tools in the cloud, while providing options for teams to deploy their own custom tools. Participants in all SoC hacking experience levels were covered.

Behind the Scenes

The HACK@DAC organizing team is made up of industry and academia experts. A big shout-out goes to the team for their flawless execution and outstanding collaboration, working tirelessly since the beginning of the year.

HACK@DAC 2023 Winners

1st: Team “Sycuricon”, Zhejiang University, China

  • Advisor: Yajin Zhoud
  • Members: Jinyan Xu, Yiyuan Liu, Xiaodi Zhao, Jiaxun Zhu

2nd: Team “Calgary ISH”, University of Calgary, Canada

3rd: Team “Bitwise Bandits”, University of Florida, United States and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

3rd: Team “NYU_bounty_hunters”, UNSW, Australia and New York University, United States

Congratulations to the winners of the 6th HACK@DAC Hardware Security Capture-the-Flag (CTF) Competition!

2023 CADathlon @ ICCAD

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. Students are selected based on their academic backgrounds and their relevant EDA programming experiences. Partial or full travel grants are provided to qualifying students. CADathlon competition may consist of six problems in the following areas:

  • Circuit Design & Analysis
  • Physical Design & Design for Manufacturability
  • Logic & High-Level Synthesis
  • System Design & Analysis
  • Functional Verification & Testing
  • Future technologies (Bio-EDA, Security, AI, etc.)

More specific information about the problems and relevant research papers will be released on the Internet one week prior to the competition. The writers and judges that construct and review the problems are experts in EDA from both academia and industry. At the contest, students will be given the problem statements and example test data, but they will not have the judges’ test data. Solutions will be judged on correctness and efficiency. Where appropriate, partial credit might be given.

The team that earns the highest score is declared the winner. In addition to handsome trophies, the first place and the second place teams receive cash award, and the contest winners will be announced at the ICCAD conference.

  • Cash Prize
    • First place award: 1500 per person
    • Second place award: 750 per person
  • Participation Request (please submit via Google Form)
  • Important dates
    • October 10th, 2023: Participation request form due
    • October 14th, 2023: Participation acceptance announcement
    • October 22th, 2023: Release of topic/hardware details
    • October 29th, 2023: Contest date
  • Problems and References:
    2023’s/ 2022’s / 2019’s / 2018’s /  2017’s / 2016’s / 2015’s / 2014’s / 2013’s / 2012’s / archive
  • Organization Committee
    • Chair: Andy, Yu-Guang Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
    • Co-chair: Jeff (Jun) Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
    • Co-chair: Zahra Ghodsi, Purdue University, USA
    • Co-chair: Pei-Yu (Billy) Lee, Synopsys, Taiwan
  • Contact: andyygchen.nuc at gmail dot com

Global Education Partner:

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2023 SIGDA LIVE webinars

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 to sigdalive@gmail.com. All past talks are archived through our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel. Each year we recognize one speaker with the “Most Influential Speaker of the Year” award.

OrganizersYiyu Shi (University of Notre Dame), Qinru Qiu (Syracuse University)

Technical supportBei Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Recent SIGDA-sponsored presentations:

2023 System Design Contest at Design Automation Conference (DAC-SDC’23)

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 design on a Nvidia Jetson Nano GPU or Xilinx Kria KV260 FPGA board. Grand cash awards will be given to the top three teams. The award ceremony will be held at the 2023 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference.

Organizing Committee

  • Jeff Goeders – Brigham Young University
  • Callie Hao – Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Meng Li – Peking University
  • Cheng Zhuo – Zhejiang University

Sponsors

2022 Student Research Forum at ASPDAC (SRF@ASPDAC)

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 their future career. In addition, the forum helps the companies and academic institutes to get an overview of the latest research and discover the extraordinary candidates for their employment.

This Year’s Awards (2022)

Best Poster – Research
Intelligent Circuit Design and Implementation with Machine Learning in EDA
Zhiyao Xie, Duke University

Best Poster – Presentation
Algorithm-Hardware Co-design of Transformer on FPGA Devices
Xinyi Zhang, University of Pittsburgh 

Most Popular Poster
ASBP: Automatic Structured Bit-Pruning for RRAM-based NN Accelerator
Songyun Qu, Chinese Academy of Sciences


Call for Submission: SIGDA Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC 2021 (SRF@ASP-DAC 2021)

Considering ASP-DAC 2021 is going virtual due to COVID-19, SRF@ASP-DAC 2021 will be held as a virtual forum. The forum welcomes all students, professors and industrial professionals from the relevant research community. The student author of each accepted submission by the forum is required to have a registration to ASP-DAC 2021 at least at the full student rate. The forum will provide financial support equivalent to the full student rate for each accepted submission.

ELIGIBILITY

  • Students must be within 1 year (M.S.) or 2 years (Ph.D.) of dissertation completion or have completed their dissertation during the last 12 months.
  • Dissertation topic must be relevant to the ASP-DAC community.
  • Previous ASP-DAC forum presenters are not eligible.
  • Students who have presented previously at DAC/DATE PhD forums are eligible.
  • Only students with at least one published or accepted conference, symposium or journal “full” paper are eligible for awards.
  • Students must attend the forum virtually to present the poster in person without substitute presentations, or else please contact the SRF Chair in advance.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
A two-page PDF abstract of the dissertation (in two-column format, using 10pt. fonts and single-spaced lines), including name, institution, adviser, contact information, estimated (or actual) graduation date, whether the work has been presented at DAC PhD Forum or DATE PhD Forum, as well as figures and bibliography (if applicable). The two-page limit on the abstract will be strictly enforced: any material beyond the second page will be ignored by the reviewers. Each accepted abstract has to prepare a poster and a short video presentation, and the student has to attend the forum virtually for real-time interactions.

To be considered for awards, a student must explicitly indicate, in the title of the two-page abstract, the venues for which the work was published or accepted, and a list of all papers authored or co-authored by the student should be included in the bibliography of the two-page abstract. The papers must be related to the dissertation topic. Those on topics unrelated to the dissertation abstract will not be considered.

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aspdacsrf2021

IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission Deadline: November 30, 2020 (firm)
  Date of Acceptance Notification: December 14, 2020
  Poster and Short Video Submission Deadline: January 5, 2021
  Forum Date: January 19, 2021

CONTACT INFORMATION
For queries, please send an e-mail to Prof. Weichen Liu (liu [at] ntu.edu.sg). Please include “SRF@ASP-DAC 2021” in the subject of your email.

Organizers

Chair:
Weichen Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Co-Chairs:
Lei Jiang, Indiana University Bloomington, US
Yaoyao Ye, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Secretariat:
Jun Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Technical Committee:
Hiromitsu Awano, Kyoto University, Japan
Donkyu Baek, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Ateet Bhalla, Independent Technology Consultant, India
Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Wanli Chang, University of York, UK
Xianzhang Chen, Chongqing University, China
Yi-Jung Chen, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Xiang Chen, George Mason University, US
Haibao Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore Univ. of Technology and Design, Singapore
Hsiang-Yun Cheng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Luan Huu Kinh Duong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shao-Yun Fang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, US
Chien-Chung Ho, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Weiwen Jiang, University of Notre Dame, US
Yukihide Kohira, The University of Aizu, Japan
Hyung-Gyu Lee, Daegu University, Korea
Sicheng Li, Hewlett Packard Labs, US
Yongfu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Qingan Li, Wuhan University, China
Chun-Han Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Ren-Shuo Liu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Jaehyun Park, University of Ulsan, Korea
Muhammad Shafique, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Liang Shi, East China Normal University, China
Donghwa Shin, Soongsil University, Korea
Masashi Tawada, Waseda University, Japan
Hoeseok Yang, Ajou University, Korea
Ming-Chang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Lei Yang, University of New Mexico, US
Bei Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Qian Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, US
ASP-DAC liaison:
Masashi Tawada, Waseda University, Japan
Yukio Mitsuyama, Kochi University of Technology, Japan

Sponsors

ACM SIGDA
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Synopsys, Inc.

2022 Ph.D. Forum DAC

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 members of the community. It also enables both, academicians and industry, to see the best graduating students in one place. Presentations are selected through a scientific evaluation by an expert committee consisting of academia and industry. The forum is open to all members of the design automation community and is free-of-charge. It is co-located with DAC, but a DAC registration is not required in order to attend this event.

Submission Process

In order to select the presentations to be featured at the DAC Ph.D. Forum, we are seeking contributions from students who are currently working on their Ph.D. or have recently completed their Ph.D. Corresponding applications have to be submitted through EasyChair and need to include the following two documents:

  • A two-page PDF abstract of the dissertation (in two-column format, using 10-11 pt. fonts and single-spaced lines), including name, institution, advisor, contact information, estimated (or actual) graduation date, whether the work has been presented at the ASP-DAC Ph.D. Forum or the DATE Ph.D. Forum, as well as figures, and bibliography (if applicable). The two-page limit on the abstract will be strictly enforced: any material beyond the second page will be truncated before sending to the reviewers. Please include a description of the supporting paper, including the publication forum. A list of all papers authored or co-authored by the student, related to the dissertation topic and included in the two-page abstract, will strengthen the submission.
  • A published (or accepted) paper, in support of the submitted dissertation abstract. The paper must be related to the dissertation topic and the publication forum must have a valid ISBN number. It will be helpful, but is not required, to include your name and the publication forum on the first page of the paper. Papers on topics unrelated to the dissertation abstract or not yet accepted will not be considered during the review process.

Please include the supporting paper with the abstract in one PDF file and submit the single file (there are many free utilities available online which can merge multiple PDF files into a single file if necessary). Then, please submit your application through the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dacforum22

Important Dates

  • Abstract Submission: March 13, 2022
  • Notification Date: May 8, 2022
  • Forum Presentation Date: July 12, 2022 in San Francisco

Eligibility

All submitters must satisfy the following eligibility constraints:

  • Dissertation topic must be relevant to the DAC community.
  • Students with at least one published or accepted conference, symposium or journal paper.
  • Students within 1-2 years of dissertation completion and students who have completed their dissertation during the 2021-2022 academic year. Students closer to graduation will have higher priority since the rest of the students can attend a future Ph.D. Forum with more mature results.
  • Students who have presented previously at the DATE and ASP-DAC Ph.D. forums are eligible, but will be less likely to receive travel assistance.
  • Previous DAC SIGDA Ph.D. forum presenters are not eligible.
  • Students having a conflict of interests with one of the (co-)chairs and/or a member of the evaluation committee are allowed to submit. The submission will then be handled by different chairs/members and the entire evaluation will be completely blind to the anyone with a CoI.

Furthermore, it is strongly recommended to consider the following remarks:

  • The abstract is the key part of your submission. Write the abstract for someone familiar with your technical area, but entirely unfamiliar with your work. Clearly indicate the motivation of your Ph.D. dissertation topic, the uniqueness of your approach, as well as the potential impact your approach may have on the topic.
  • Proper spelling, grammar, and coherent organization are critical: remember that the two pages may be the only information about yourself and your PhD research available to the reviewers.

Travel Support and Best Presentation Award

All presentations selected to be presented at the DAC Ph.D. Forum are eligible to apply for some travel support as well as for getting awarded with a Best Presentation Award. Corresponding information on how to apply for travel support will be provided later to all accepted presenters (however, please note that travel support can only be given to a selected amount of presenters and will only cover a fraction of the actually needed travel costs). The Best Presentation Award is selected by a dedicated committee at the Ph.D. Forum (taking the submission as well as the actual presentation into account). The same CoI guidelines as for submission evaluation apply.

Contact

For questions not addressed on this page, please send an e-mail to Robert Wille (robert.wille@jku.at). Please include “DAC Ph.D Forum” in the subject line of your email.

Sponsored By

2021 PhD 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

1.1M.SALAH: Mechanism for Simulation-Assisted Layout PArtitioning and Analysis of HotspotsSherif Mousa
1.2Fully Automated High Power Amplifier Design: From Transistor Selection to Post-layout GenerationLida Kouhalvandi
1.3Designing Data-Aware Network-on-Chip for PerformanceAbhijit Das
1.4Pre and Post Silicon Verification Techniques for Analog and Mixed Signal CircuitsSayandeep Sanyal
1.5Ultra-Fast Temperature Estimation Methods for Architecture-Level Thermal ModelingHameedah Sultan
1.6Hardware-Software Co-Design for Emerging WorkloadsDiksha Moolchandani
1.7Leakage Aware Dynamic Thermal Management for 3D Memory ArchitecturesLokesh Siddhu
1.8Architectural-Space Exploration of Energy-Efficient Approximate Arithmetic Units for Error-Tolerant ApplicationsHaroon Waris
1.9Novel Attack and Defense Strategies for Enahcned Logic Locking SecurityLilas Alrahis

Session II – December 6, 2021 11AM-Noon Pacific Time

2.1Proving Correctness of Industrial Multipliers using Symbolic Computer AlgebraAlireza Mahzoon
2.2Resilience and Energy-Efficiency for Deep Learning and Spiking Neural Networks for Embedded SystemsRachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra
2.3Robust and Energy-Efficient Deep Learning SystemsMuhammad Abdullah Hanif
2.4Personalized Deep Learning for Patient-Specific Physiological Monitoring in IoTZhenge Jia
2.5Network-on-Chip Performance Analysis and Optimization for Deep Learning ApplicationsSumit Kumar Mandal
2.6Efficient, Mixed Precision In-Memory Deep learning at the EdgeShamma Nasrin
2.7Design of ML-based and Open Source EDA for Power Delivery Network Synthesis and AnalysisVidya A. Chhabria
2.8Cross-Layer Techniques for Energy-Efficiency and Resiliency of Advanced Machine Learning ArchitecturesAlberto Marchisio
2.9Machine Learning Algorithms in Electronics Design AutomationZhiyao Xie
2.10Efficient Stochastic Computing Machine Learning Acceleration at the EdgeWojciech Romaszkan

Session III – December 6, 2021 12PM-1PM Pacific Time

3.1Designing Obfuscated Systems for Enhanced Hardware-Oriented SecurityMichael Zuzak
3.2Designing Approximate Accelerators, AutomaticallyJorge Castro-Godínez
3.3Breaking the Energy Cage of Insect-scale Autonomous Drones: Interplay of Probabilistic Hardware and Co-designed AlgorithmsPriyesh Shukla
3.4Modeling and Optimization of Next-Generation AI Accelerators under UncertaintiesSanmitra Banerjee
3.5Hardware-Software Codesign of Silicon Photonic AI AcceleratorsFebin Sunny
3.6High-performance Spectral Methods for HypergraphsAli Aghdaei
3.7Low-Power Unary Computing ArchitectureDi Wu
3.8Intrinsic Authentication at IoT Edge Nodes using Spatial and Temporal SignaturesAhish Shylendra
3.9Secure and Usable Zero-interaction Pairing and Authentication Methods for the Internet-of-ThingsKyuin Lee
3.10Energy-Quality Scalable Hardware and Software Solutions for Energy-Efficient Approximate ComputingSetareh Behroozi

Eligibility

  • Dissertation topic must be relevant to the DAC community.
  • Students with at least one published or accepted conference, symposium or journal paper.
  • Students within 1-2 years of dissertation completion and students who have completed their dissertation during the 2020-2021 academic year. Students closer to graduation will have higher priority since the rest of the students can attend a future Ph.D. Forum with more mature results.
  • Students who have presented previously at the DATE and ASP-DAC Ph.D. forums are eligible, but will be less likely to receive travel assistance.
  • Previous DAC SIGDA Ph.D. forum presenters are not eligible.

Important Dates

Submission Requirements

  • A two-page PDF abstract of the dissertation (in two-column format, using 10-11 pt. fonts and single-spaced lines), including name, institution, advisor, contact information, estimated (or actual) graduation date, whether the work has been presented at ASP-DAC Ph.D. Forum or DATE Ph.D. Forum, as well as figures, and bibliography (if applicable). The two-page limit on the abstract will be strictly enforced: any material beyond the second page will be truncated before sending to the reviewers. Please include a description of the supporting paper, including the publication forum. A list of all papers authored or co-authored by the student, related to the dissertation topic and included in the two-page abstract, will strengthen the submission.
  • A published (or accepted) paper, in support of the submitted dissertation abstract. The paper must be related to the dissertation topic and the publication forum must have a valid ISBN number. It will be helpful, but is not required, to include your name and the publication forum on the first page of the paper. Papers on topics unrelated to the dissertation abstract or not yet accepted will not be considered during the review process.

Please Note:

  • The abstract is the key part of your submission. Write the abstract for someone familiar with your technical area, but entirely unfamiliar with your work. Clearly indicate the motivation of your Ph.D. dissertation topic, the uniqueness of your approach, as well as the potential impact your approach may have on the topic.
  • In the beginning of the abstract, please indicate to which track your submission belongs to.
  • Proper spelling, grammar, and coherent organization are critical: remember that the two pages may be the only information about yourself and your PhD research available to the reviewers.
  • All submissions must be made electronically.
  • Please include the supporting paper with the abstract in one PDF file and submit the single file. There are many free utilities available online which can merge multiple PDF files into a single file if necessary.

Topics of Interest (not limited by)

  1. System-level Design, Synthesis and Optimization (including network-on-chip, system-on-chip and multi/many-core, HW/SW co-design, embedded software issues, modeling and simulation)
  2. Internet of Things (IoT)
  3. Autonomous Systems
  4. High Level Synthesis, Logic Level Synthesis
  5. Power and Reliability Analysis and Optimization (including power management from system level to circuit level, thermal management, process variability management)
  6. Timing Analysis, Circuit and Interconnect Simulation
  7. Physical Design and Manufacturability
  8. Signal Integrity and Design Reliability
  9. Verification, Testing, Pre- and Post-Silicon Validation, Failure Analysis
  10. Reconfigurable and Adaptive Systems
  11. Analog/Mixed Signals and RF
  12. Hardware Security
  13. Machine learning/AI
  14. Printable and flexible hybrid electronics (FHE)
  15. Emerging Design, Technologies, and Computing Methods (carbon nanotubes, molecular electronics, MEMS, microfluidic system, biologically-inspired systems, quantum computing, etc.)

Contact Information

For questions not addressed on this page, please send e-mail to Dr. Topaloglu (rasit@us.ibm.com). Please include “DAC Ph.D Forum” in the subject line of your email.

Organizing Committee

Rasit Topaloglu, IBM (Chair)

Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, National Taiwan University

Robert Wille, Johannes Kepler University, Linz

Jingtong Hu (SIGDA Representative), University of Pittsburgh

Program Committee

CristinelAbabeiMarquette University
RaidAyoubIntel
AteetBhallaIndependent Technology Consultant, India
Rajat SubhraChakrabortyAssociate Professor, Dept. of CSE, IIT Kharagpur
XiaomingChenInstitute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
LiDuUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Shao-YunFangNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Hui-RuJiangNational Taiwan University
JinwookJungIBM
RyanKimColorado State University
Myung-ChulKimGoogle
YounghyunKimUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
BingLiTechnical University of Munich
PreetiPandaIndian Institute of Technology Delhi
SudeepPasrichaColorado State University
RahulRaoIBM
EmreSalmanStony Brook University
HassanSalmaniHoward University
KorkutTokgozTokyo Institute of Technology
Rasit OnurTopalogluIBM
MiroslavVelevAries Design Automation
RobertWilleJohannes Kepler University Linz
HuaXiangIBM
JiangXuHong Kong Universtiy of Science and Technology
Cindy YangYiVirginia Tech
WeiZhangThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2020 Design Automation WebiNar (DAWN)

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, please visit: https://dawn-webinar.github.io/DAWN/

CADathlon 2019 Problem References

Problem 1: Circuit Design and Analysis
Contributed by Jianlei Yang, Beihang University
Overview: 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 Manufacturability
Contributed by William Chow, Cadence
Overview: Tap assignment for gated clock network (in C++)
Reference: W-H Chen, C-K Wang, H-M Chen, Y-C Chou, and C-H Tsai, “A Comparative Study on Multisource Clock Network Synthesis,” The 22nd Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI), 2016

Problem 3: Logic & High-Level Synthesis
Overview: Boolean Function Manipulation by Quantification (in C++)
Reference: No specific reference is provided.

Problem 4: System Design & Analysis
Contributed by Andy Yu-Guang Chen, National Central University
Overview: On-line Wake-up Scheduling for Multi-module design (in C++)
Reference 1: D. Brelaz, “New Methods to Color the Vertices of a Graph,” Communications of the ACM, Vol.22, Issue 4, Apr. 1979.
Reference 2: M.C. Lee, Y. Shi, Y.G. Chen, D. Marculescu, S.C. Chang, “Efficient On-Line Module-Level Wake-Up Scheduling for High Performance Multi-Module Designs,” Proc. on the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), 2012, Page(s): 97-104.

Problem 5: Functional Verification & Testing
Contributed by Hao Zheng, University of South Florida
Overview: Cycle-based logic simulation (in C++)
Reference 1: S. Palnitkar and D. Parham, “Cycle Simulation Techniques,” IEEE International Verilog HDL Conference, 1995, Page(s) 2-8.
Reference 2: A. Biere, “The AIGER And-Inverter Graph (AIG) Format, Version 20070427,” Johannes Kepler University, 2006-2007

Problem 6: Future technologies (Bio-EDA, Security, AI, etc.)
Contributed by Mimi Xie, The University of Texas at San Antonio and Caiwen Ding, University of Connecticut
Overview: Efficient Pruning for Neural Networks (in Python)
Reference: Han, Song, Jeff Pool, John Tran, and William Dally. “Learning both weights and connections for efficient neural network,” In Advances in neural information processing systems, pp. 1135-1143. 2015.