Design Automation Conference

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DAC, Design Automation Conference

Status| Active
Frequency| Annual
Years active| 60
Founded| May 6, 1964; 60 years ago (1964-05-06) 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

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 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

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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

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

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

Key  †  | Denotes future event

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Edition | Year | Location | Conference center | General chair

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26th | 1989 | Las Vegas, Nevada | Las Vegas Convention Center | Don Thomas
27th | 1990 | Orlando, Florida | Orange County Convention Center | Richard Smith
28th | 1991 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | A. Richard Newton
29th | 1992 | Anaheim, California | Anaheim Convention Center | Daniel Schweikert
30th | 1993 | Dallas, Texas | Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center | Alfred Dunlop
31st | 1994 | San Diego, California | San Diego Convention Center | Michael Lorenzetti
32nd | 1995 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Bryan Preas
33rd | 1996 | Las Vegas, Nevada | Las Vegas Convention Center | Thomas Pennino
34th | 1997 | Anaheim, California | Anaheim Convention Center | Ellen Yoffa
35th | 1998 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Basant Chawla
36th | 1999 | New Orleans, Louisiana | New Orleans Morial Convention Center | Mary Jane Irwin
37th | 2000 | Los Angeles, California | Los Angeles Convention Center | Giovanni De Micheli
38th | 2001 | Las Vegas, Nevada | Las Vegas Convention Center | Jan M. Rabaey
39th | 2002 | New Orleans, Louisiana | New Orleans Morial Convention Center | Bryan Ackland
40th | 2003 | Anaheim, California | Anaheim Convention Center | Ian Getreu
41st | 2004 | San Diego, California | San Diego Convention Center | Sharad Malik
42nd | 2005 | Anaheim, California | Anaheim Convention Center | William H. Joyner Jr.
43rd | 2006 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Ellen Sentovich
44th | 2007 | San Diego, California | San Diego Convention Center | Steven Levitan
45th | 2008 | Anaheim, California | Anaheim Convention Center | Limor Fix
46th | 2009 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Andrew Kahng
47th | 2010 | Anaheim, California | Anaheim Convention Center | Sachin Sapatnekar
48th | 2011 | San Diego, California | San Diego Convention Center | Leon Stok
49th | 2012 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Patrick Groeneveld
50th | 2013 | Austin, Texas | Austin Convention Center | Yervant Zorian
51st | 2014 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Soha Hassoun
52nd | 2015 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Anne Cirkel
53rd | 2016 | Austin, Texas | Austin Convention Center | Chuck Alpert
54th | 2017 | Austin, Texas | Austin Convention Center | Mac McNamara
55th | 2018 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Xiaobo Sharon Hu
56th | 2019 | Las Vegas, Nevada | Las Vegas Convention Center | Rob Aitken
57th | 2020 | Virtual due to COVID-19 | — | Zhuo Li
58th | 2021 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Harry Foster
59th | 2022 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Rob Oshana
60th | 2023 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Jörg Henkel
61st† | 2024 | San Francisco, California | Moscone Center | Vivek De

* 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

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* 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

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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.

## External links

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* Design Automation Conference website
* dblp: Design Automation Conference

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