Stage One: Abstract Submission

• A title, abstract (approximately 100 words), and a list of all co-authors must be submitted by November 11, 2025 (5:00pm US Pacific Time). You may also submit the manuscript at this time.

• A submitter must enter the names, affiliations, countries, and email addresses of ALL co-authors. Conflicts of Interest with TPC members of ALL authors must be identified.

Stage Two: Manuscript Submission

• The manuscript (up to 6 pages plus an additional 1 page for references only) is due by November 18, 2025 (5:00pm US Pacific Time). Each submitted manuscript must discuss original work that has not been previously published in other indexed research databases. It must not be actively reviewed at another conference or journal at the time of submission.

• Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript meets the submission rules. There will be no opportunity for re-submission to correct any issues after the November 18, 2025, deadline.

• Your manuscript will be reviewed as a finished manuscript. Preliminary submissions will be at a disadvantage.

• Research manuscripts only submission policy: An individual may not be an author on more than 20 research manuscripts. If an individual exceeds this limit, the first 20 submitted manuscripts (time-based submissions) that include the individual’s name will be reviewed. All other submitted manuscripts over 20, will be rejected immediately. Serious violations will be reported to IEEE and ACM for disciplinary action. DAC Technical Program Committee (TPC) members have additional submission limitations:

  • TPC members are limited to submitting at most five manuscripts, posters, or presentations to their conference program (Research or Engineering Track).

  • In addition, TPC members are not allowed to submit more than three manuscripts to their own sub-committee and may be included in at most one invited submission/presentation.

  • Moreover, no Subcommittee Chair, Subcommittee Co-chair within the TPC shall submit to their own subcommittee.

• No new submissions are allowed after the November 11, 2025 deadline.

• A submitter must enter the names, affiliations, countries, and email addresses of ALL co-authors. The addition of new co-authors or re-ordering of authors will not be permitted after the November 18, 2025 deadline.

• An abstract of approximately 100 words must clearly state the significant contribution, impact and results of the manuscript.

• The submission must not disclose the author(s) by their name(s) or affiliation(s) anywhere in the manuscript or abstract. Submissions that reveal the authors’ identities will be desk-rejected and will not be reviewed by the TPC. Any reference to the author(s)' own previous work or affiliations in the bibliographic citations must be cited in the third person. The use of “omitted for blind review” in the bibliography section is not permitted. The authors must make sure that the PDF metadata does not contain the author information.

• The manuscript must be within 6 pages, excluding references, double-columned, 9 or 10-pt font, in PDF format only, be a readable file and follow the ACM Templates. The length and content of the submitted version and that of the final version (if accepted) should not be significantly different. All references must be listed in the additional reference page. Only one page of references is allowed. Inclusion of any content other than the references on the reference page will result in the desk rejection of the submission. The manuscript and the reference page must be formatted as a single PDF file.

• Your draft manuscript must leave enough space to include authors, acknowledgements, and other identifying information for the final version without exceeding the 6-page limit.

• A submitter is required to check the conflicts of interests (COI) field and the duplicate submission field. See the "Conflict of Interest" section and the "Duplicate Submission" section for further information.

One author of each accepted submission is required to:

• Prepare and submit the final version of the manuscript for the official conference proceedings.

• Sign and submit the copyright form.

In addition:

• One co-author on the paper is required to pay the full conference Speaker Registration Fee; student rates cannot be used. Each accepted paper requires a unique registration.

• The speaker must present the paper IN-PERSON at the conference. As part of the acceptance confirmation, international authors will be required to identify an alternative presenter who will present the work if there are any issues in obtaining travel visas.

• The authors of each accepted paper must prepare a poster to be displayed after the conference.

Following ACMs policies on authorship, anyone listed as Author on a paper must meet all the following criteria:

• made a significant intellectual contribution to the theoretical development, system or experimental design, prototype development, and/or the analysis and interpretation of data associated with the work contained in the paper;

• contributed to drafting the paper or reviewing and/or revising it for intellectual content;

• approved the final version of the paper as accepted for publication, including references.

Contributors who do not meet all of the above criteria may be included in the Acknowledgment section of the paper. Submissions which fail to follow the above guidelines will be automatically rejected. Serious violations will be reported to IEEE and ACM for disciplinary action.

DAC adheres to strict rules regarding duplicate submissions. Submissions must be clearly novel and distinct with respect to other submissions to 63rd DAC, concurrent submissions to other conferences, and previously published work.

• All closely related work should be properly referenced. If such related work is authored by one of the co-author(s) of the manuscript in submission, it should be referenced as if it were written by others.

• Any extended version of the submitted manuscript should not be submitted or under review before the formal notification of the DAC ‘s review decision.

• If any co-author has any paper that may be perceived as having overlapping contributions and that is simultaneously under review by another venue, such papers must be disclosed in the submission process.

The DAC publication policy does allow for papers published on arXiv to be submitted to DAC. Note, however, that the authors are expected to follow all reasonable efforts to ensure that the DAC submission is compliant with the double-blind review process.

Submissions which fail to follow the above guidelines will be automatically rejected. In serious cases, the authors’ names will be reported to IEEE & ACM and kept in records, as well as sent to the Technical Chair or the Editor of the venue where the duplicate manuscript was submitted; the authors may be banned from publishing at future DAC conferences.

When submitting to DAC, authors face a dilemma. DAC has a blind review process in which the author’s identity remains anonymous. However, the submission rules compel the authors to cite relevant publications that have already been accepted or are under review by another conference (such as ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, etc.). Disclosing these papers under the citation list reveals the authors’ identities. To circumvent this issue, DAC has implemented a disclosure process.

When submitting a paper, the authors are asked to list each relevant paper that has not yet been published and include the corresponding pdf of the paper. The TPC Chair will be able to check for self-plagiarism and relevance without revealing the author identities to the reviewers. Failure to disclose such papers will be considered as omission of closely related work and subject to the same penalties outlined in the Duplicate Submissions, as discussed in the section.

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:

• Quality of the technical contribution (design, solution, methodology) described in the manuscript.

• Originality of the concepts used and described. Advances over previous approaches should be reflected in the discussion of significant improvements in the results section. Comparisons with other approaches are also important to justify the advancement claimed in the submitted manuscript.

• Significance of the results obtained, described by measurable quantitative criteria (runtime for tools, optimality of results, time for design process steps, simplification or automation of manual effort, etc.).

• Degree of experimental evidence to support the claims of the manuscript. Results supported by evidence in industry-strength designs or widely accepted benchmarks with measurable criteria are highly desirable, if not essential.

• A good discussion of limitations of the approach and concepts, and possible areas for future improvement.

• The quality of manuscript writing, use of English, organization, and clarity of presentation.

• Once a manuscript has been accepted, the subcommittee organizes it into an appropriate technical session; sessions are then scheduled throughout the duration of the conference.

Authors are asked to submit their work in two stages. In stage one (Abstract Submission), a title, abstract, and a list of all co-authors must be submitted via the DAC web-submission site. In stage two (Manuscript Submission), the manuscript itself is submitted. Authors are responsible to ensure that their manuscript submission meets all guidelines, and that the PDF is readable. To ensure fairness for all submitters, there will be no grace periods to fix problematic submissions.

The manuscript should stand on its own, with references in the last page. The manuscript must be within 6 pages, excluding references, double-columned, 9 or 10-pt font, in PDF format only, be a readable file and follow the ACM Template. The length and content of the submitted version and that of the final version (if accepted) should not be significantly different; the draft manuscript must leave enough room to allow for the inclusion of author information, acknowledgements, and other identifying information in the final version. There will be no chance of resubmitting to correct any issues.

Submitters should report COIs of all co-authors with respect to members of the Technical Program Committee upon submission. However, it is recommended that submitters work on marking COIs as soon as they submit their manuscript's abstract, since this task may require some time, which is often scarce in the final sprint towards the completion of a manuscript's submission. Modifications to marked COIs can be made any time prior to the manuscript deadline.

Authors are asked to mark all the TPC members who have COIs with at least one of the authors at the time of abstract registration. Do not mark any members of the Technical Program Committee as COI where there is no COI.

DAC assumes that authors have no additional COIs with TPC members, beside those that have been declared at the time of manuscript submission. If a manuscript is found to have failed in identifying a COI, during or after the paper selection process, the submitted manuscript will be automatically rejected. Same holds if members of the Technical Program Committee are marked as COI if no COI exists.

The Call for Contributions lists several categories; please select the most appropriate primary topic when submitting your abstract. Authors of submissions that cover cross-cutting topics should select a category that is closest to the essential contribution of the submission. Submissions will be asked to select a broad category (e.g., “ EDA2. Design Verification and Validation”). A complete list of available categories and topic areas can be found in the CFP.  Please note that there are separate categories for Artificial Intelligence, Design, Electronic Design Automation, Security, and Systems topics.

The Research track at 63 DAC will include a DESIGN (DES) focus to feature high-quality content on design research, design practices, and design automation for cross-cutting topics.

If you think that your work makes a significant contribution to any of the design related topics, you should consider writing a complete 6-page research manuscript and submit it to the regular research track. On the other hand, if your work is more of a design practice using EDA tools or if you cannot meet the research manuscript deadline, you can consider submitting your work to the Engineering Tracks, which do not require a manuscript and entail no publication.

All submissions to the Research Track are subject to the six-page limit, with one additional page for references only. The manuscript plus one page of references should be formatted as a single PDF file. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure the readability of the PDF file and submit it by the November 18, 2025 deadline.

The page limit of the submissions is 6+1, not 7. The last page is reserved for references only. Inclusion of any content other than references on the additional reference page will lead to the desk rejection of the submission.

To satisfy the criteria for a blind review process, the Call for Contributions states that any references to the author(s) own previous work or affiliations in the bibliographic citations must be in the third person. For the blind review process, DO NOT LIST THE NAMES OR AFFILIATIONS OF ANY OF THE AUTHORS ANYWHERE ON THE MANUSCRIPT, except in the references section (if citation to prior work is required).

Example: A. and B. presented a method for listing self-referential citations in [5].


[5] A. A and B. B, How to write a research DAC paper, 2026.

DO NOT use “omitted for blind review” to cite authors’ own papers. Describe all related papers published by you as if they were written by others.

Citation of authors’ unpublished papers is not allowed, including citation of potential double and/or simultaneous submissions. If this situation arises, submitters must follow the disclosure requirements to disclose their (or their co-authors) related work that is under review or accepted for publication.

DAC adheres to strict rules regarding double and/or simultaneous submissions. No new technical content should be under review during any time overlapping with DAC's selection and publication of manuscripts. In general, an extended version of the conference paper should be submitted to a journal after the first day of the conference. Your submissions must be clearly distinct from any other submissions under review. Use your judgment. If in doubt, consult with a more senior colleague. Double submissions are unethical, and a serious issue within the ACM & IEEE communities.

The DAC publication policy does allow for papers published on arXiv to be submitted to DAC. Note, however, that the authors are expected to follow all reasonable efforts to ensure that the DAC submission is compliant with the double-blind review process.

When submitting a paper, the authors are asked to list all potentially relevant papers that have not yet been published and provide an electronic copy (in pdf format) of those papers. The TPC Chair will be able to check for self-plagiarism and relevance without revealing author identities to the reviewers. Failure to disclose such papers will be considered as omission of closely related work and subject to the same penalties outlined in the "Duplicate Submissions" section.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) research manuscripts feature advances in the field of AI / Machine Learning (ML) with a focus on design automation and designs at the cross section between AI/ML algorithms/applications and hardware. The scope includes but is not limited to novel AI/ML algorithms, applications, infrastructures, and how to address growing security/privacy concerns of AI/ML.

• Electronic Design Automation (EDA) research manuscripts have at their core novel algorithms or novel algorithm implementations for important problems facing leading edge electronic design automation. These may address the problem at any level of abstraction (from high-level blocks down to the bare transistor). They can cover both design implementation (for example, physical layout or logic synthesis) and design analysis (for example, signal integrity analysis, rule checking, functional verification, and circuit simulation).

• Design (DES) research manuscripts feature high-quality contributions on design research, design practices, and design automation for cross-cutting topics, ranging from systems and architectures, particularly specialized solutions to embedded systems, storage and memory structures.

• Security (SEC) research manuscripts feature contributions on the urgent need to create, analyze, evaluate, and improve the hardware, embedded systems and software base of the contemporary security solutions. This applies across all domains, including financial, healthcare, transportation, and energy.

• Systems (SYS) research manuscripts cover novel advances in areas such as embedded systems software and hardware, from the very highest levels of system specification (e.g., domain-specific languages and model-based design) to hardware/software implementations of embedded systems, their associated software design tools and architectural platforms, as well as validation, verification, and reliability. Systems topics will also cover modeling, optimization, and exploration of multiple embedded system constraints (e.g., reliability, power, security). Systems  case studies, platforms and design methodologies are also an integral part of these topics.

If the TPC subcommittee does not accept your manuscript as a research manuscript at DAC, they will also determine if your submission meets the requirements for a WIP presentation and invite WIP-eligible manuscripts to present during a specific poster session at DAC. Note that WIP presentations papers are not published in the DAC proceedings. Thus, in this situation, you do not need to re-submit your manuscript to the WIP submission site.