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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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Functional
ECO with Behavioral Change Guidance
(Cadence Design
Systems, Inc., Taiwan Ltd) |
Problem
B
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Routing with
Cell Movement Advanced
(Synopsys
Taiwan, Corp.) |
Problem
C
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GPU-Accelerated
Logic Rewriting
(Nvidia Corp.)
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Tentative
Schedule
| Registration deadline |
2021/05/10 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
2021/05/17 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
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| Alpha test submission |
2021/06/05 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
2021/06/11 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
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| Beta test submission |
2021/07/24 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
2021/07/30 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
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Final submission
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2021/08/30
17:00:00 (GTM+8)
2021/09/06 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
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| Award ceremony |
At ICCAD
Conference (Nov. 1-4, 2021) |
Awards for
each Problem
1st
Place Award
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NTD 50,000 / team
(approx. US$ 1,650)
Certificate / person
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2nd
Place Award
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NTD 30,000 / team
(approx. US$ 1,000)
Certificate / person
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3rd
Place Award
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NTD 30,000 / team
(approx. US$ 1,000)
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 |
Tsung-Wei
Huang
University of Utah,
USA
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| Contest
Co-chairs |
Takashi Sato
Kyoto
University, Japan
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Chun-Yao Wang
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
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Andy Yu-Guang
Chen
National
Central
University, Taiwan |
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Topic
Chairs
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Yen-Chun
Fang, Shao-Lun Huang, Ching-Yi Huang, Chi-An
(Rocky) Wu, Chung-Han Chou, Chih-Jen (Jacky)
Hsu, WoeiTzy (Wells) Jong, and Kei-Yong Khoo
Cadence Design Systems,
Inc.
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Kai-Shun Hu,
Ming-Jen Yang, and Tao-Chun Yu
Synopsys, Inc.
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Ghasem
Pasandi, Sreedhar Pratty, David Brown
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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