The 2016 CAD Contest at ICCAD is a challenging, multi-month, research and development competition, focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation. The contest is open to multi-person teams world-wide. Contestants can participate in one or more problems in the three areas of design verification, logic synthesis, and design for manufacturing (DFM). For more information, including registration details, detailed problem descriptions, and contest rules, please refer to the official contest website.
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Since its inaugural year of 2012, the CAD Contest at ICCAD has been a worldwide competition, conducted with joint sponsorship from IEEE CEDA and the Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan. Over the years, the contest has presented challenging problems and real-world benchmarks in varied topic areas while fostering productive industry-academia collaboration. In the past four years, the contest has witnessed a progressive increase in worldwide participation: 56 teams from 7 regions in 2012, 87 teams from 9 regions in 2013, 93 teams from 9 regions in 2014, and 112 teams from 12 regions in 2015. Each year winners are awarded at an ICCAD special session dedicated to this contest. Thus far, it has led to more than 35 publications in top-tier conferences and journals, which have undoubtedly boosted EDA research and extended the impact of the contest.
Problem A: Identical Fault Search
Problem B: NP3: Non-exact Projective NPNP Boolean Matching
Problem C: Pattern Classification for Integrated Circuit Design Space Analysis
Tentative Contest Schedule
1. Call for participation: February 2016
2. Official website open: February 2016
3. Problem description announcement: February 2016
4. Registration deadline: May 25, 2016 (extended)
5. Alpha test submission: June 08, 2016
6. Beta test submission: July 27, 2016
7. Submission deadline: September 01, 2016
8. Award ceremony: November 2016 (at ICCAD)
Other Information
1. For all inquires, please send an email to: cad.contest.iccad@gmail.com Please add "ICCAD2016_Contest" to the subject line for any emails regarding the contest.
2. All updates will be announced on the official contest website
3. Archived website for the 2015 CAD contest at ICCAD
Organization
1. Contest chair: Shih-Hsu Huang (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
2. Contest co-chairs: Rung-Bin Lin (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan) Myung-Chul Kim (IBM Corp., USA) Shigetoshi Nakatake (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan)
3. Topic chairs:
Tangent Wei and Luke Lin (Synopsys Taiwan Co., Ltd., Taiwan)
Chi-An (Rocky) Wu and Chih-Jen (Jacky) Hsu (Cadence Design Systems Inc., Taiwan)
Rasit O. Topaloglu (IBM Corp., USA)
Sponsors:
IEEE CEDA
Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Taiwan IC Design Society (TICD)
Synopsys, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
MediaTek Inc.
National Chip Implementation Center, Taiwan
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Since its inaugural year of 2012, the CAD Contest at ICCAD has been a worldwide competition, conducted with joint sponsorship from IEEE CEDA and the Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan. Over the years, the contest has presented challenging problems and real-world benchmarks in varied topic areas while fostering productive industry-academia collaboration. In the past four years, the contest has witnessed a progressive increase in worldwide participation: 56 teams from 7 regions in 2012, 87 teams from 9 regions in 2013, 93 teams from 9 regions in 2014, and 112 teams from 12 regions in 2015. Each year winners are awarded at an ICCAD special session dedicated to this contest. Thus far, it has led to more than 35 publications in top-tier conferences and journals, which have undoubtedly boosted EDA research and extended the impact of the contest.
YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE!!!
Contest Problem Problem A: Identical Fault Search
Problem B: NP3: Non-exact Projective NPNP Boolean Matching
Problem C: Pattern Classification for Integrated Circuit Design Space Analysis
Tentative Contest Schedule
1. Call for participation: February 2016
2. Official website open: February 2016
3. Problem description announcement: February 2016
4. Registration deadline: May 25, 2016 (extended)
5. Alpha test submission: June 08, 2016
6. Beta test submission: July 27, 2016
7. Submission deadline: September 01, 2016
8. Award ceremony: November 2016 (at ICCAD)
Other Information
1. For all inquires, please send an email to: cad.contest.iccad@gmail.com Please add "ICCAD2016_Contest" to the subject line for any emails regarding the contest.
2. All updates will be announced on the official contest website
3. Archived website for the 2015 CAD contest at ICCAD
Organization
1. Contest chair: Shih-Hsu Huang (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
2. Contest co-chairs: Rung-Bin Lin (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan) Myung-Chul Kim (IBM Corp., USA) Shigetoshi Nakatake (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan)
3. Topic chairs:
Tangent Wei and Luke Lin (Synopsys Taiwan Co., Ltd., Taiwan)
Chi-An (Rocky) Wu and Chih-Jen (Jacky) Hsu (Cadence Design Systems Inc., Taiwan)
Rasit O. Topaloglu (IBM Corp., USA)
Sponsors:
IEEE CEDA
Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Taiwan IC Design Society (TICD)
Synopsys, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
MediaTek Inc.
National Chip Implementation Center, Taiwan