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 Estimation

  • Conjuring: Leaking Control Flow via Speculative Fetch Attacks

Engineering Track Best Presentation Award for Front-End Design 

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

  • Anil Deshpande | Samsung Semiconductor

  • Somasunder Sreenath | Samsung Semiconductor

  • Mukesh Barnwal | Samsung Semiconductor

  • Rohan R | Samsung Semiconductor

  • 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 | STMicroelectronics

  • Anuj Dhillon | STMicroelectronics

  • Harshit Sharma | STMicroelectronics

  • Vartul Sharma | Synopsys

  • Rakesh Shenoy | Synopsys

  • Ashish Kumar| STMicroelectronics

 

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.

 

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