For more than five decades, DAC has brought together the people designing the world’s most advanced electronic technologies—from devices and chips to complex systems. Today, increasing design complexity requires engineers and researchers to work across traditional boundaries, connecting architecture, hardware, software, packaging, and design methodologies to optimize the complete system.
The DAC Research Track explores emerging approaches to electronic design, including System-on-Chip (SoC) and multi-die systems, chiplets and heterogeneous integration, accelerator and domain-specific architectures, hardware/software co-design, cyber-physical systems, digital and analog design, and emerging computing technologies such as quantum and brain-inspired computing. Research also addresses new methodologies for managing performance, power, reliability, security, and complexity across increasingly interconnected systems.
The Engineering Track brings these advances into real-world design practice. Engineers and tool users share experiences, challenges, methodologies, and results across IP, front-end and back-end design, verification, physical implementation, systems, and software. Sessions provide practical insight into the tools and workflows being used to solve today’s most demanding design problems while creating direct interaction between end users, researchers, and technology developers.
Together, DAC’s Design program connects research innovation with engineering practice, giving attendees a unique opportunity to discover new approaches, learn from real-world implementations, and expand their design expertise across the entire electronics ecosystem.