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CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION ( pdf | jpg )
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 (112 teams from 12
regions
in 2015, 135 teams from
11 regions in 2016, and 123 teams from 10 regions in 2017, 136 teams
from 11 regions in 2018), 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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Logic Regression on High Dimensional Boolean Space
(Cadence Design Systems, Inc.)
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Problem B
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System-level FPGA Routing with Timing Division Multiplexing Technique
(Synopsys, Inc.)
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Problem C
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LEF/DEF Based Open-Source Global Router
(Mentor Graphics & University of California San Diego)
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Tentative Schedule
| Registration
deadline |
May 10, 2019 May 24, 2019 (anywhere on earth)
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| Alpha test
submission |
June 21, 2019 June 27,2019 (anywhere on earth) |
| Beta test
submission |
July 26, 2019 July 27, 2019 (GMT+8) |
Final
submission
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August 30, 2019 September 6, 2019 (GMT+8) |
| Award ceremony |
November 4,
2019
(at ICCAD) |
Awards for each
Problem
1st
Place Award
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NTD
50,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,650)
Certificate / person
Open-source bonus for Problem C: US$ 5,500 / team
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2nd
Place Award
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NTD
30,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,000)
Certificate / person
Open-source bonus for Problem C: US$ 1,500 / team
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3rd
Place Award
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NTD
30,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,000)
Certificate / person
Open-source bonus for Problem C: US$ 500 / team
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Honorable
Mentions
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Certificate
/ person |
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***Important
Notice***
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The
recipients of monetary awards must be students. |
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The
amount of monetary awards in US dollars may change due to currency
fluctuation. |
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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. |
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We
reserve the right to adjust the numbers of prize winners and honorable
mentions. |
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Organizing Committee
| Contest
Chair |
Ulf
Schlichtmann
Technical
University of Munich, Germany |
| Contest
Co-chairs |
Sabya Das
Synopsys, Inc., USA
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Ing-Chao Lin
National
Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
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Mark Po-Hung
Lin
National
Chung Cheng University, Taiwan |
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Topic Chairs
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Ching-Yi Huang, Chi-An (Rocky) Wu, Tung-Yuan Lee, and Chih-Jen (Jacky) Hsu
Cadence
Design Systems, Inc.
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Yu-Hsuan Su, Emplus Huang, Hung-Hao Lai, and Yi-Cheng Zhao
Synopsys, Inc.
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Alexander Volkov, Sergei Dolgov
Mentor Graphics
Lutong Wang, Bangqi Xu
University of California San Diego
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| Advisory |
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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