Design Automation Conference

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DAC, Design Automation Conference
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StatusActive
FrequencyAnnual
Years active59
FoundedMay 6, 1964;59 years ago (1964-05-06) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
FounderPasquale (Pat) Pistilli
Most recent DAC2022
Next event DAC2023
Participants6000
Area Electronic design automation
Sponsors ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation
Website Design Automation Conference

The Design Automation Conference, or DAC, is an annual event, a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation (EDA).

Contents

DAC receives approximately 1100 research paper submissions annually. A technical program committee of 266 experts performs a double-blind review, selecting 263 papers for publication in the proceedings. [1] [2]

The trade show features approximately 100 companies in the field of design automation such as Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Siemens EDA and Ansys.

Over the past few years the conference location has been alternating among Austin and San Francisco. The conference is usually held in June.

DAC is sponsored by two professional societies:

in technical cooperation with IEEE-SSCS (IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society). [3]

DAC is organized by hundreds of volunteer committee members from EDA companies and academia. [4]

Origins

DAC is the oldest and largest conference in EDA, starting in 1964. [5] It grew out of the SHARE ("Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort") design automation workshop. Its originators Marie Pistilli and Pasquale (Pat) Pistilli were honored by the EDA community. Pat received the highest honor in EDA industry, the Phil Kaufman Award, for this effort, and Marie was honored by having an award established in her name, the Marie Pistilli Award. [6]

Marie and Pat Pistilli at DAC in 2000 Marie and Pat Pistilli.jpg
Marie and Pat Pistilli at DAC in 2000

Up until the mid-'70s, DAC had sessions on all types of design automation, including mechanical and architectural. After that, for all intents and purposes, the focus shifted to electronic design. [7] Currently, the topics at DAC also include embedded systems, autonomous systems, Artificial Intelligence hardware, hardware security, and Intellectual Property.

Also until the mid-'70s, DAC was strictly a technical conference. Then a few companies started to request space to show their products, and within a few years, the trade show portion of DAC became the main focus of the event. The first commercial DAC was held in June 1984. As a rough metric of the importance of the trade show portion, about 6,300 people attended DAC in 2018, whereas ICCAD, at least as strong technically but with no trade show, drew perhaps a tenth as many attendees.

Recent history

The table below shows the edition, year, location, and the general chair of recent DAC events. [8]

Key
†Denotes future event
EditionYearLocationConference centerGeneral chair
26th1989 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Convention Center Don Thomas
27th1990 Orlando, Florida Orange County Convention Center Richard Smith
28th1991 San Francisco, California Moscone Center A. Richard Newton
29th1992 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center Daniel Schweikert
30th1993 Dallas, Texas Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Alfred Dunlop
31st1994 San Diego, California San Diego Convention Center Michael Lorenzetti
32nd1995 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Bryan Preas
33rd1996 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Convention Center Thomas Pennino
34th1997 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center Ellen Yoffa
35th1998 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Basant Chawla
36th1999 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Morial Convention Center Mary Jane Irwin
37th2000 Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Convention Center Giovanni De Micheli
38th2001 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Convention Center Jan M. Rabaey
39th2002 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Morial Convention Center Bryan Ackland
40th2003 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center Ian Getreu
41st2004 San Diego, California San Diego Convention Center Sharad Malik
42nd2005 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center William H. Joyner Jr.
43rd2006 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Ellen Sentovich
44th2007 San Diego, California San Diego Convention Center Steven Levitan
45th2008 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center Limor Fix
46th2009 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Andrew Kahng
47th2010 Anaheim, California Anaheim Convention Center Sachin Sapatnekar
48th2011 San Diego, California San Diego Convention Center Leon Stok
49th2012 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Patrick Groeneveld
50th2013 Austin, Texas Austin Convention Center Yervant Zorian
51st2014 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Soha Hassoun
52nd2015 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Anne Cirkel
53rd2016 Austin, Texas Austin Convention Center Chuck Alpert
54th2017 Austin, Texas Austin Convention Center Mac McNamara
55th2018 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Xiaobo Sharon Hu
56th2019 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Convention Center Rob Aitken
57th2020Virtual due to COVID-19 —Zhuo Li
58th2021 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Harry Foster
59th2022 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Rob Oshana
60th2023 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Jörg Henkel
61st†2024 San Francisco, California Moscone Center Vivek De

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References

  1. ↑ Oshana, Rob (2022). DAC '22: Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference. Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN   978-1-4503-9142-9. OCLC   1346426698.
  2. ↑ "Design Automation Conference proceedings 1964-2023 | Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library". dl.acm.org/conference/dac.
  3. ↑ "DAC Sponsors | Design Automation Conference". www.dac.com.
  4. ↑ https://www.dac.com/committees/executive Archived 2019-04-26 at the Wayback Machine .
  5. ↑ Pistilli, P.O. (1964). Proceedings of the SHARE design automation workshop. Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN   9781450379328. OCLC   809795363.
  6. ↑ "Women in Electronic Design | Design Automation Conference". dac.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  7. ↑ Newton, A. Richard (1988). 25 years of electronic design automation: a compendium of papers from the Design Automation Conference. Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN   978-0-89791-267-9. OCLC   56581424.
  8. ↑ "Archive | Design Automation Conference". www.dac.com.
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