2017 CAD Contest Website: Here

Announcement of Problem C

Below is an update about the three top-ranking teams of Problem C. The update is based on the recalculated scores of submissions for Problem C after fixing a mistake in score calculation. We are very sorry for this mistake.

The First Place of Problem C
Mehmet M Isgenc, Joseph Sweeney, Samuel Pagliarini, Mayler Martins–Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Prof. Larry Pileggi
Team name: Carnegie Mellon University Team

The Second Place of Problem C
Yan-Shiun Wu, Hong-Yan Su, Yi-Hsiang Chang–National Chiao Tung University
Advisor: Prof. Yih-Lang Li
Team name: NCTU_CS_EDA

The Third Place of Problem C
Kuan-Jung Chen, Yu-Kai Chuang, Bo-Yi Yu, Kun-Lin Lin, Tao-Chun Yu, Chun-Wei Ho–National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Shao-Yun Fang, Prof. Shun-Feng Su
Team name: NTUSToDeBug

Highlights of the Award Ceremony at ICCAD

The 2016 CAD Contest Award Ceremony was successfully held on November 7, 2016.
Please click to watch the Highlights of 2016 CAD Contest at ICCAD.

You may click the following links to see the Video shows of the Top 3:
1. Video Shows of Problem A
2. Video Shows of Problem B
3. Video Shows of Problem C
You may also click the following links to see the presentations of our contest chair and topic chairs in the Award Ceremony at ICCAD:
1. Introduction to 2016 CAD Contest at ICCAD (Opening)
2. Presentation of Problem A
3. Presentation of Problem B
4. Presentation of Problem C

Special Announcement: Congratulations to the Winners of 2016 CAD Contest at ICCAD

Thank you to everyone who participated in 2016 CAD Contest at ICCAD. We are delighted to announce the Top 3 winners of our contest. Congrats to:
First Place of Problem A
Dao Ai Quoc–National Chung Cheng University
Advisor: Prof. Mark Po-Hung Lin, Dr. Alan Mishchenko
Team name: CCUEDA

Second Place of Problem A
Teng-Chia Wang, Chin-Heng Liu, De-Xuan Ji, Yan-Ping Chang–National Tsing Hua University
Advisor: Prof. Chun-Yao Wang
Team name: happycad

Third Place of Problem A
Tung-Yuan Lee, Chia-Cheng Wu, Hsin-Pei Wang, Yung-An Lai–National Tsing Hua University
Advisor: Prof. Yung-Chih Chen
Team name: DONDON231

Honorable Mention of Problem A
Ting-Hui Li, Yen-Yi Wu, Chung-Yuan Lan–National Taiwan University
Advisor: Prof. Jiun-Lang Huang, Prof. Yao-Wen Chang
Team name: Walkr

Honorable Mention of Problem A
Dmitry Telpukhov, Roman Soloviev, Mikhail Myachikov, Ekaterina Balaka, Vladimir Rukhlov, Artem Mikhmel–Institute for Design Problems in Microelectronics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Team name: RELIC

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First Place of Problem B
Chak-Wa Pui, Peishan Tu, Haocheng Li, Gengjie Chen–The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Advisor: Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young
Team name: CUHK_NP3

Second Place of Problem B
Yi-Hong Lu, Ko-Ching Liang, Cheng-Han Yang, Kuan-Yu Lin–National Taiwan University
Advisor: Prof. Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang
Team name: ricisgod

Third Place of Problem B
Yi-Tin Sun, Kuan-Hua Tu, Yao-Wen Mao, Cheng-Min Chiang–National Taiwan University
Advisor: Prof. Jie-Hong Roland Jiang
Team name: ALCom

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First Place of Problem C
Yan-Shiun Wu, Hong-Yan Su, Yi-Hsiang Chang–National Chiao Tung University
Advisor: Prof. Yih-Lang Li
Team name: NCTU_CS_EDA

Second Place of Problem C
Mehmet M Isgenc, Joseph Sweeney, Samuel Pagliarini, Mayler Martins–Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Prof. Larry Pileggi
Team name: Carnegie Mellon University Team

Third Place of Problem C
Kuan-Jung Chen, Yu-Kai Chuang, Bo-Yi Yu, Kun-Lin Lin, Tao-Chun Yu, Chun-Wei Ho–National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Shao-Yun Fang, Prof. Shun-Feng Su
Team name: NTUSToDeBug

Please accept our heartiest congratulations!!

Call for Participation

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:
http://cad-contest-2016.el.cycu.edu.tw/CAD-contest-at-ICCAD2016/
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! Register Here! (closed)

Contest Problems

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 Conctest Schedule

Call for participation: February 2016
Official website open: February 2016
Problem description announcement: February 2016
Registration deadline: May 04, 2016 May 25, 2016
Alpha test submission: June 08, 2016 June 23, 2016
Beta test submission: July 27, 2016
Submission deadline: September 01, 2016 September 07, 2016
Award ceremony: November 7, 2016 (at ICCAD Session 3D)

Awards

The contest winners will receive monetary awards (students only) and certificates.

Award	Team	Adevisor
1st PlaceOne One team for each topic	Certificate of 1st Place NTD 50,000/team (approx. US$ 1650)	Certificate of 1st Place
2nd Place /3rd Place Two teams for each topic	Certificate of 2nd/ 3rd Place NTD 30,000/team (approx. US$ 1000)	Certificate of 2nd/ 3rd Place
Notes: For each team, the recipient of monetary award must be a student. The amount of monetary award in US dollars fluctuates slightly due to currency variation. According to the law in 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. We reserve the right to change the number of prize winners.

Other Information

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.

All updates will be announced on the official contest website: http://cad-contest-2016.el.cycu.edu.tw/CAD-contest-at-ICCAD2016/
Archived website for the 2015 CAD contest at ICCAD: http://cad-contest.el.cycu.edu.tw/CAD-contest-at-ICCAD2015/

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 Corporation, USA)

Shigetoshi Nakatake (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan)

3. Topic chairs:

Problem A: Tangent Wei and Luke Lin (Synopsys Taiwan Co., Ltd.)

Problem B: Chi-An (Rocky) Wu and Chih-Jen (Jacky) Hsu (Cadence Design Systems Inc., Taiwan)

Problem C: Rasit O. Topaloglu (IBM Corp., USA)

Sponsors:

IEEE CEDA (Financial sponsorship)

Ministry of Education, Taiwan (Financial sponsorship)

Taiwan IC Design Society (TICD) (Financial sponsorship)

Synopsys, Inc. (Financial sponsorship)

Cadence, Inc. (Financial sponsorship)

MediaTek, Inc. (Financial sponsorship)

National Chip Implementation Center, Taiwan (Technical Sponsorship)