Call for Submissions

The Designer/User Track (DUT) focuses on practitioners: designers, embedded software developers, and application engineers. The DUT aims to illustrate both benefits and challenges of tool usage, and provides educational and networking benefits for both end-users and tool developers.

NEW Easy Submission Process!

This year, instead of two submission rounds, there will be a single submission round. Authors will submit their work in the form of a slide deck suitable for a presentation at the conference. Accepted submissions will present a poster at DAC. Authors of particularly high-quality submissions will be invited to present their work as a talk during a regular DUT session.

Please visit the Designer/User Track page on the DAC website for more information on the submission process, and topic categories.

View the Designer/User Track Call for Contributions Publicity Flyer

Topics

D1. Embedded Systems and Software

• Design reports and case studies
• Architectural exploration, design, and optimization
• Software specification, models, and framework
• Security for embedded systems and software
• Validation and verification
• Design methodologies and flows

D2. Silicon Design (Front-End)

• System and high-level hardware synthesis
• Power/area/performance trade-offs and low-power design
• Bus and network communication
• Logic simulation
• Validation, test planning, and coverage
• FPGAs and emulation
• Formal verification

D3. Silicon Design (Back-End)

• Physical synthesis tools and techniques
• Floorplanning
• Timing and circuit analysis; circuit optimization
• Reliability
• Interconnect simulation and analysis
• Physical design and manufacturability
• Manufacturing test and silicon debug
• Analog, mixed-signal, and RF design
• Custom, standard cell, and FPGA design flows
• Tool control and integration