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, Design Automation Conference
StatusActive
FrequencyAnnual
Years active59
FoundedMay 6, 1964 (1964-05-06) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
FounderPasquale (Pat) Pistilli
Most recentDAC2022
Next eventDAC2023
Participants6000
AreaElectronic design automation
SponsorsACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation
WebsiteDesign 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:

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

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

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

Key
† Denotes future event
EditionYearLocationConference centerGeneral chair
26th1989Las Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas Convention CenterDon Thomas
27th1990Orlando, FloridaOrange County Convention CenterRichard Smith
28th1991San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterA. Richard Newton
29th1992Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim Convention CenterDaniel Schweikert
30th1993Dallas, TexasKay Bailey Hutchison Convention CenterAlfred Dunlop
31st1994San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego Convention CenterMichael Lorenzetti
32nd1995San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterBryan Preas
33rd1996Las Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas Convention CenterThomas Pennino
34th1997Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim Convention CenterEllen Yoffa
35th1998San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterBasant Chawla
36th1999New Orleans, LouisianaNew Orleans Morial Convention CenterMary Jane Irwin
37th2000Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles Convention CenterGiovanni De Micheli
38th2001Las Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas Convention CenterJan M. Rabaey
39th2002New Orleans, LouisianaNew Orleans Morial Convention CenterBryan Ackland
40th2003Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim Convention CenterIan Getreu
41st2004San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego Convention CenterSharad Malik
42nd2005Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim Convention CenterWilliam H. Joyner Jr.
43rd2006San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterEllen Sentovich
44th2007San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego Convention CenterSteven Levitan
45th2008Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim Convention CenterLimor Fix
46th2009San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterAndrew Kahng
47th2010Anaheim, CaliforniaAnaheim Convention CenterSachin Sapatnekar
48th2011San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego Convention CenterLeon Stok
49th2012San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterPatrick Groeneveld
50th2013Austin, TexasAustin Convention CenterYervant Zorian
51st2014San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterSoha Hassoun
52nd2015San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterAnne Cirkel
53rd2016Austin, TexasAustin Convention CenterChuck Alpert
54th2017Austin, TexasAustin Convention CenterMac McNamara
55th2018San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterXiaobo Sharon Hu
56th2019Las Vegas, NevadaLas Vegas Convention CenterRob Aitken
57th2020Virtual due to COVID-19—Zhuo Li
58th2021San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterHarry Foster
59th2022San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterRob Oshana
60th2023San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterJörg Henkel
61st†2024San Francisco, CaliforniaMoscone CenterVivek De
  • The Executive Committee that organized DAC in 2000
    The Executive Committee that organized DAC in 2000
  • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak delivered a keynote address at DAC in 2011.
    Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak delivered a keynote address at DAC in 2011.
  • DAC in Moscone West, San Francisco, 2022
    DAC in Moscone West, San Francisco, 2022

See also

References
  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.
  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.
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