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CALL
FOR PARTICIPATION
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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X-value
Equivalence Checking
(Cadence Design
Systems, Inc.)
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Problem
B
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Routing
with Cell Movement
(Synopsys, Inc.)
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Problem
C
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GPU
Accelerated Logic Re-simulation
*Amazon GPU
credits will be provided to
participating teams.
(Nvidia Corp.)
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Tentative
Schedule
| Registration deadline |
May
8, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) May 15, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) |
| Alpha test submission |
June
14, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) |
| Beta test submission |
July
19, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) July 22, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) |
Final submission
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August
23, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) August
26, 2020 (23:00, GMT+8) |
| Award ceremony |
November 2,
2020 (at ICCAD Virtual Conference) |
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: NVIDIA GPU cards (about
US$5000 value) / team
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2nd
Place Award
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NTD 30,000 / team
(approx. US$ 1,000)
Certificate / person
Open
source bonus for Problem
C: NVIDIA GPU cards (about
US$1500 value) / team
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3rd
Place Award
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NTD 30,000 / team
(approx. US$ 1,000)
Certificate / person
Open
source bonus for Problem
C: NVIDIA GPU cards (about
US$500 value) / team
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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 |
Ing-Chao
Lin
National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan
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| Contest
Co-chairs |
Ulf
Schlichtmann
Technical University of
Munich, Germany
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Tsung-Wei
Huang
University of Utah,
USA |
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Mark
Po-Hung Lin
National Chiao Tung
University, Taiwan |
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Topic
Chairs
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Jacky
(Chih-Jen) Hsu, Rocky (Chi-An) Wu,
and Ching-Yi Huang
Cadence Design Systems,
Inc.
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Kai-Shun
Hu and Ming-Jen Yang
Synopsys, Inc.
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Yanqing
Zhang, Haoxing Ren, Ben Keller, and
Brucek Khailany
Nvidia Corp.
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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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