The following are required for your submission:

• The title of the presentation

• Abstract of 100-200 words

• Submission Categories

• Presenter(s) name, affiliation, city, state, country, and email address

• For evaluation by the Program Committee, a six (6) slides* PowerPoint presentation. Please review the guidelines below for suggested presentation structure.

*Additional information may be added in the notes section for each slide.

The following guidelines should be followed when preparing your slides for submission:

• Submissions are limited to 6 total slides*.

• Submissions must be in PowerPoint format: 16:9 aspect ratio.

• Consistent with DAC policy, company logos may appear only on the title slide.

  • Slide 1: Title, author names and affiliations

    • Authors may NOT be added after acceptance, so be sure to list all authors in the initial submission.

  • Slide 2: Motivation

    • Include an introduction that specifies the context and motivation of the submission. Examples: identify challenges associated with the design task at hand, clarify where in the design process the tools are used, and explain why the problem addressed is of interest to the audience.

  • Slide 3: Main Idea

    • Include details on the specific contributions of your work. Examples: innovative use of tools to achieve a specific goal, user enhancements to the tool and/or tool flow, dealing with scalability, details of integrating IP, study of design trade-offs, interfacing with manufacturing.

  • Slide 4: Additional Content Slide

    • Flexibility to add a slide that demonstrates value of the paper/idea

  • Slide 5: Evidence

  • Slide 6: Summary

    • Include a summary that highlights the main results of your work. Results are needed to evaluate the impact of your contribution. Metrics that could be used include productivity enhancement, improved quality of silicon, decreased complexity, and reduced time-to-market.

• Important: Ensure that you have the necessary legal, trademark, copyright, and/or organizational approval needed to submit your presentation. Take appropriate steps to get this approval early, as the submissions deadline cannot be extended.

*Note: The presentation format described above is what is required for your submission to be reviewed by the Technical Program committee to decide Accept/Reject. The final presentation delivered at DAC will be made up of a Title slide, Author slide and 12 content slides. The expectation is that the final presentation will expand on the submission presentation.

Documented tool use may target electronic design and system design at all levels of abstraction and across all application domains. Regular submissions will be accepted in the following categories:

Front-End Silicon Design (FE)

Front end architecture, design and verification of current day System-on-Chip (SoC) including major components such as CPU, GPU, and DSP. Front end design of entire SoC sub-systems such as graphics, multimedia and modem.

• Accepted Front End Design Track presentations and posters are NOT included in the DAC proceedings. However, accepted Front-End Design Track submissions (both posters and presentation slides) will be made available on the DAC website after the conference as a part of the DAC Archives (subject to approval from the authors).

• All Front-End Design Track submissions, if accepted, will be shared with the rest of the conference as posters in dedicated 60-minute group sessions. Some submissions, on top of the poster session, will also be scheduled for 15-minute presentations.

• Best Presentation and Poster awards will be selected from the Front-End Design Track submissions. The awards will be based on (a) the quality of the submission, (b) the presentation given at DAC, and (c) the presentation at the poster session.

Please select up to two of the following Topic Areas:

Please select up to three of the following Keywords:

If a submission will be relevant to a specific industry or industries, one or more of the following industries may be selected: