Design Automation and Test in Europe

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| name = DATE, Design Automation and Test in Europe

| next = [https://www.date-conference.com DATE2025] in Lyon, France

| website = [https://www.date-conference.com DATE]

| area = Electronic design automation

| frequency = Annual

| status = Active

| years_active = {{age|1998|02|25}}

| founded = {{Start date and age|1998|02}} in Paris, France

| participants = 1200

| sponsors = ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESDA), the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA), and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA)

}}

Design, Automation & Test in Europe, or DATE is a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation. It is typically held in March or April of each year, alternating between France and Germany.{{Cite book|url=https://worldcat.org/title/1327747814|title=Proceedings of the 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE 2022)

|date=2022|publisher=European Design and Automation Association|isbn=978-3-9819263-6-1|oclc=1327747814}}{{Cite web|url=https://dl.acm.org/conference/date|title=Design, Automation, and Test in Europe proceedings 1998-2023 | Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library|website=dl.acm.org/conference/date}} It is sponsored by the SIGDA of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Electronic System Design Alliance, the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA),{{Cite web|url=https://www.edaa.com|title=European Design and Automation Association | home page|website=www.edaa.com}} and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).

Technical co-sponsors include ACM SIGBED, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), IFIP, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

DATE is a combination of a technical conference and a small trade show. It was formed in 1998 as a merger of EDAC, ETC, Euro-ASIC, and Euro-DAC.{{Cite book|url=https://worldcat.org/title/1112536591|title=Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation, and test in Europe (DATE 1998)

|date=1998|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|isbn=978-0-8186-8359-6|oclc=1112536591}}