Design Automation Conference

In 2024 DAC received 1545 research paper submissions. A technical program committee of 266 domain experts performed a double-blind review, selecting 337 papers (22%) for publication in the proceedings.{{cite conference

| title = Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)

| editor = Vivek De

| date = 2024

| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery

| url = https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3649329

| isbn = 979-8-4007-0601-1

| access-date = 2025-03-13

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DAC also includes an Engineering Track for industry professionals and technical managers. This track addresses front-end design, back-end design, IP, and embedded systems and software. Submissions to the Engineering Track undergo a separate peer-review process conducted by a dedicated committee.{{cite web

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|title=A Detailed Look at the DAC Engineering Track with Ambar Sarkar

|website=SemiWiki

|date=2024

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

The DAC Young Fellows Program{{cite web

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}} at DAC supports graduate students and early-career researchers in the field. The program provides approximately 150 participants with mentorship, travel grants, networking opportunities, and access to conference sessions, fostering their professional growth.

The Ph.D. Forum{{cite web

|url=https://www.dac.com/Attend/Students-Scholarships/PhD-Forum

|title=PhD Forum at DAC

|website=Design Automation Conference

|access-date=2025-04-30

}} at DAC is a poster session for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation research with the EDA community.

HACK@DAC is a hardware security challenge contest for finding and exploiting security-critical vulnerabilities in hardware and firmware.

DAC is organized by hundreds of volunteer committee members from industry and academia. The conference is sponsored by two professional societies:{{Cite web|url=https://www.dac.com/content/dac-sponsors-1|title=DAC Sponsors | Design Automation Conference|website=www.dac.com}}

• ACM-SIGDA (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Design Automation) and
• IEEE-CEDA (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation), in technical cooperation with IEEE-SSCS (IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society).

The conference is usually held in June.

DAC is the oldest and largest conference in EDA, starting in 1964.{{Cite conference|editor=P.O. Pistilli |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/809795363|title=Proceedings of the SHARE design automation workshop|date=1964|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|oclc=809795363}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://dac.com/content/women-electronic-design|title=Women in Electronic Design | Design Automation Conference|website=dac.com|access-date=2016-02-29|archive-date=2016-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126062723/https://dac.com/content/women-electronic-design|url-status=dead}}

File:Marie and Pat Pistilli.jpg

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.{{Cite book|last=Newton|first=A. Richard|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/56581424|title=25 years of electronic design automation: a compendium of papers from the Design Automation Conference|date=1988|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|isbn=978-0-89791-267-9|oclc=56581424}} 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.

The table below shows the edition, year, location, and the general chair of recent DAC events.{{cite web

|url=https://www.dac.com/About/Conference-Archive

|title=DAC Conference Archive

|website=Design Automation Conference

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Proceedings25thDAC.jpg|The cover of the 25th DAC Proceedings (1988).{{cite conference| title = Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)| editor = A. Richard Newton| date = 1988| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery| url = https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.5555/285730| isbn = 978-0-8186-8864-5}}

ExecutiveCommittee.jpg|The Executive Committee of the 37th DAC in June 2000. Sitting in the bottom row are Lee Wood, David Blaauw, Mary Jane Irwin, Giovanni De Micheli, Jan Rabaey, Ellen Yoffa, Randal Bryant, and Marie R. Pistilli.

StevWozniakAtDAC.jpg|Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak delivered the keynote address at the 48th DAC in 2011.

DACPastChairs2013.jpg|25 past DAC chairs at the 50th DAC celebration in Austin, June 6th, 2013.

DACMoscone2022.jpg|The 59th DAC was at Moscone West, San Francisco, July 2022.

PosterSession.jpg|The poster session of the DAC Young Fellows at the 61st DAC in Moscone West, July 2024.

JimKeller.jpg|Jim Keller delivering his keynote at the 61st DAC in 2024.

• Marie Pistilli Award, an award for women in Electronic Design Automation issued at DAC
• Phil Kaufman Award, an award for key contributors in the field of EDA issued at DAC
• EDA Software Category
• International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
• Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
• Design Automation and Test in Europe
• Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits

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