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Introduction
The
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 (EDA). It is
open to multi-person teams world-wide.
Each year the organizing committee
announce three challenging
problems in different topic areas
provided by industrial companies. Contestants can participate in one or more
problems. The prizes will be awarded at an ICCAD special session dedicated to this
contest.
Since
its inaugural year of 2012, the CAD
Contest at ICCAD has been attracting more
than a hundred teams per year, fostering
productive industry-academia
collaborations, and leading to hundreds of
publications in top-tier conferences and
journals. The contest undoubtedly boosts
EDA research and keeps enhancing its
impact.
Contest
Problems
Problem A
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Hardware Trojan Detection on Gate Level Netlist
(Cadence Design Systems, Inc.) |
Problem B
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Power and Timing Optimization Using Multibit Flip-Flop
(Synopsys, Inc.) |
Problem C
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Incremental Placement Optimization Beyond Detailed Placement:Simultaneous Gate Sizing, Buffering, and Cell Relocation
(NVIDIA Research) |
Tentative
Schedule
| Registration deadline |
2025.05.10 17:00:00 (GMT+8)
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| Alpha test submission |
2025.06.13 17:00:00 (GMT+8)
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| Beta test submission |
2025.07.18 17:00:00 (GMT+8)
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Final submission
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2025.08.22 17:00:00 (GMT+8)
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| Award ceremony |
2025.10.26 - 2025.10.30 |
Awards for
each Problem
1st
Place Award
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NTD 70,000 / team
(approx. US$ 2,350)
Certificate / person
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2nd
Place Award
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NTD 40,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,350)
Certificate / person
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3rd
Place Award
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NTD
40,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,350)
Certificate / person
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Honorable
Mentions
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Certificate / person |
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***Important Notice***
| 1. |
The recipients of
monetary awards must be
students. |
| 2. |
The amount of monetary
awards in US dollars may
change due to currency
fluctuation. |
| 3. |
According to the Law
of Taiwan, 10% of the
monetary award will be
deducted if the recipient is
a Taiwanese taxpayer,
whereas it is 20% if the
recipient is a non-Taiwanese
taxpayer. |
| 4. |
We reserve the right
to adjust the numbers of
prize winners and honorable
mentions. |
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Organizing Committee
| Contest Chair |
Chung-Kuan Cheng
University of California, San Diego |
| Contest Co-chairs |
Shao-Yun Fang
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
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Yi-Yu Liu
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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Tsun-Ming Tseng
Technical University of Munich
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Topic Chairs
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Chung-Han Chou, Hung-Chun Chiu, Chih-Jen (Jacky) Hsu, and Kuan-Hua Tu
(Cadence Design Systems, Inc.) |
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Sheng-Wei Yang, Jhih-Wei Hsu, Yu-Hsuan Cheng, Cindy Chin-Fang Shen
(Synopsys, Inc.) |
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Yi-Chen Lu, Rongjian Liang, Wen-Hao Liu, and Haoxing (Mark) Ren
(NVIDIA Research) |
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Advisory
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IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation
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ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
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Ministry of Education, Taiwan
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