2024 Best Paper & Presentation Recipients

61st DAC Best Paper Awards for Research

Token-Picker: Accelerating Attention in Text Generation with Minimized Memory Transfer via Probability Estimation

• Junyoung Park | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Myeonggu Kang | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Yunki Han | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Yang-Gon Kim | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Jaekang Shin | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Lee-Sup Kim | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

 

61st DAC BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINEES

• TITAN: A Fast and Distributed Large-Scale Trapped-Ion NISQ Computer

• LLM-HD: Layout Language Model for Hotspot Detection with GDS Semantic Encoding

• ChatCPU: An Agile CPU Design and Verification Platform with LLM

• Token-Picker: Accelerating Attention in Text Generation with Minimized Memory Transfer via Probability Estimatio

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Front-End Design 

Augmenting IP/SOC Verification Exhaustiveness with BER Transformer Infused Deep Learning Model

• Anil Deshpande, Somasunder Sreenath, Mukesh Barnwal, Rohan R, Swapnil Singh | Samsung Semiconductor

 

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Back-End Design 

UCIe-A 32GT/s Power Distributed Network Design-Optimization at Organic Interposer with Localized Integrated Passive Decoupling Capacitors

• Sheng-Fan Yang | Global Unichip Corporation

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for IP 

Considering Selective Resistance Extraction for Performance & Accuracy Trade-off for Memory IP Simulation

• Praveen Kumar Verma, Anuj Dhillon, Harshit Sharma, Vartul Sharma, Rakesh Shenoy, Ashish Kumar

 

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Embedded Systems & Software

Complex Application Mapping to Heterogeneous Compute Resources

• Wesley Skefngton | AMD, Schenectady, Surya Chongala | AMD, Deepak Shankar | Mirabilis Design Inc.