ACM TODAES Best Paper Award ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) is seeking nominations for the 2026 TODAES Best Paper Award. The nomination deadline is February 10, 2026. All papers published in the ACM TODAES between January 2025 and December 2025 are eligible. The best paper will be selected based on originality,… Read more: ACM TODAES 2026 Call for Nominations: Best Paper Award, Rookie Author of the Year Award, Test of Time Paper Award

The IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) seeks applicants for the position of editor in chief (EIC), begin on 1 January 2027 and are for two years, pending reappointment for an additional two years, unless noted otherwise below. This role provides an opportunity to lead the journal’s editorial direction, ensure high-quality and timely publications, and serve the… Read more: IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the 2027 term

Starting January 1, 2026, all ACM publications (including those from SIGDA-sponsored conferences) will be 100% Open Access under ACM’s new publishing model. Authors whose institutions are not part of the ACM Open program will be required to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) unless they qualify for a waiver or discount. To ease this transition… Read more: SIGDA Financial Hardship Waiver (FHW) Program 2026

It is with a heavy heart that we write to share the news that on June 17th 2024, we lost our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend Arvind Mithal. Arvind passed away at 77 years old, after an illness he was being treated for took a sudden turn for the worse. Arvind was a pioneer in… Read more: Remembering Arvind: From Friends, Colleagues, and Students

ACM SIGDA announces the call for Editor-in-Chief for the SIGDA Newsletter, a monthly publication for news and event information in the design automation area. The Editor-in-Chief, along with the editorial board consisting of associate editors, is responsible for collecting and compiling information, as well as composing and disseminating the monthly newsletter to the SIGDA community.… Read more: Call for SIGDA Newsletter Editor-in-Chief

The IEEE/ACM A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation was conferred at DAC 2023 upon Moshe Vardi and Pierre Wolper for their research work “An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Program Verification”, published in the proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Logic in Computer Science,1986.

The CADAthlon Brazil 2023 – 3rd Brazilian Programming Contest for Design Automation of Integrated Circuits (https://csbc.sbc.org.br/2023/cadathlon-brasil-en/) took place on August 8th in João Pessoa, Paraíba State, Brazil, as a co-located event of the 43rd Annual Congress of SBC (Brazilian Computer Society). It was organized by Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Sul-Rio-Grandense Federal Institute of Education,… Read more: Highlights of CADAthlon Brazil 2023

https://www.dac.com/About/Conference-Archive/60th-DAC-2023/Awards-2023 For the introduction and evolution of simulation and analysis techniques that have supported the design and test of integrated circuits and systems for more than half a century.

The CADathlon Brasil 2022 – 2nd Brazilian Programming Contest for Design Automation of Integrated Circuits (https://csbc.sbc.org.br/2022/cadathlon-brasil-en/) took place on August 2nd in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, as a co-located event of the 42nd Annual Congress of SBC (Brazilian Computer Society). It was organized by Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Fluminense Federal… Read more: CADathlon Brasil 2022 Highlights

Dear Members of ACM SIGDA, After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is slowly returning to a new normal. In the Design Automation Conference (DAC) held in San Francisco last month, more than a thousand engineers, scholars, and students gathered in person for the first time in the last two and half years.… Read more: Chair’s New Year’s Greetings

The entire electronic design automation (EDA) community is in profound grief for the loss of Davide Giri, a graduate student at Columbia University, who fell victim to a horrific violence last Friday (December 3, 2021).  On behalf of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) and the Institute of… Read more: Statement on the Tragedy of Davide Giri