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).
| DAC, Design Automation Conference | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Status | Active |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Years active | 60 |
| Founded | May 6, 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Founder | Pasquale (Pat) Pistilli |
| Most recent | DAC2023 |
| Next event | DAC2024 |
| Participants | 6000 |
| Area | Electronic design automation |
| Sponsors | ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation |
| Website | Design Automation Conference |
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:
- 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).[3]
DAC is organized by hundreds of volunteer committee members from EDA companies and academia.[4]
Origins
editDAC 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]
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
editThe table below shows the edition, year, location, and the general chair of recent DAC events.[8]
| † | Denotes future event |
-
The Executive Committee that organized DAC in 2000 -
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak delivered a keynote address at DAC in 2011. -
DAC in Moscone West, San Francisco, 2022
See also
edit- Marie Pistilli Award, an award for women in Electronic Design Automation 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
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Design Automation Conference proceedings 1964-2023 | Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library". dl.acm.org/conference/dac.
- ^ "DAC Sponsors | Design Automation Conference". www.dac.com.
- ^ https://www.dac.com/committees/executive Archived 2019-04-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Pistilli, P.O. (1964). Proceedings of the SHARE design automation workshop. Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN 9781450379328. OCLC 809795363.
- ^ "Women in Electronic Design | Design Automation Conference". dac.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Archive | Design Automation Conference". www.dac.com.