2021 CAD Contest @ ICCAD

2021 CAD Contest @ ICCAD

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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	Functional ECO with Behavioral Change Guidance (Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Taiwan Ltd)
Problem B	Routing with Cell Movement Advanced (Synopsys Taiwan, Corp.)
Problem C	GPU-Accelerated Logic Rewriting (Nvidia Corp.)

Tentative Schedule

Registration deadline	2021/05/10 17:00:00 (GTM+8)   2021/05/17 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
Alpha test submission	2021/06/05 17:00:00 (GTM+8)   2021/06/11 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
Beta test submission	2021/07/24 17:00:00 (GTM+8)   2021/07/30 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
Final submission	2021/08/30 17:00:00 (GTM+8)   2021/09/06 17:00:00 (GTM+8)
Award ceremony	At ICCAD Conference (Nov. 1-4, 2021)

Awards for each Problem

1st Place Award NTD 50,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,650) Certificate / person

2nd Place Award NTD 30,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,000) Certificate / person

3rd Place Award NTD 30,000 / team (approx. US$ 1,000) Certificate / person

Honorable Mentions Certificate / person

***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.

Organizing Committee

Contest Chair	Tsung-Wei Huang University of Utah, USA
Contest Co-chairs	Takashi Sato Kyoto University, Japan
	Chun-Yao Wang National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
	Andy Yu-Guang Chen National Central University, Taiwan
Topic Chairs	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.
	Kai-Shun Hu, Ming-Jen Yang, and Tao-Chun Yu Synopsys, Inc.
	Ghasem Pasandi, Sreedhar Pratty, David Brown Nvidia Corp.
Advisory	IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation
	ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation
	Ministry of Education, Taiwan