Work-in-Progress Posters
DAC Work-in-Progress (WIP) aims to provide authors an opportunity to receive early feedback on current work and preliminary results. WIP submissions will be presented at a poster session where the WIP poster presenters will showcase their work and get timely feedback from professionals including academia, EDA industries, designers, and makers.
If you notice an issue with your paper in the DAC program or need to request a change, please submit a change request.
TIMELINE | REGISTRATION | POSTER INFORMATION | REVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESS | FAQ'S
TIMELINE
- March 13, 2025: Confirmation Forms Due
- March 20, 2025: Speaker Registration Opens
- April 10, 2025: Registration Deadline
- April 25, 2025: Draft Poster Due for Review
- May 27, 2025: Poster Feedback Provided
- June 2, 2025: Final Poster Due
- June 22, 2025: DAC begins
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REGISTRATION
I need an invitation letter for my visa. How do I request this?
Prior to the launch of registration on March 20, authors may request an invitation letter by submitting our visa letter request form. After registration is open, you may request a letter as part of the registration process.
Do Speakers need to register for DAC? If so, which registration rates are acceptable?
Yes, each accepted poster must have one author register for DAC at the Research Speaker Rate; please reference your acceptance email for information on how to receive the Speaker Rate. This is a full conference registration. Research Speakers may not use the Full Conference Student, Engineering Track or I LOVE DAC registration rates.
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POSTER INFORMATION
WIP presenters are required to present a poster describing their work (see below for poster guidelines) during the designated WIP session and be available for the entire hour to discuss their work with interested attendees. This provides an opportunity for extended discussion with interested members of the audience.
Each author is allocated a 42” tall x 36” wide area for a poster. Poster sessions will run for one hour, and may include 20-30 posters. Poster authors are welcome to distribute additional material to interested attendees at the poster session. Such material can include extended abstracts and whitepapers.
- One poster board is allocated to each presentation.
- Posters must be mounted using push pins provided by the organizing committee.
- Do not use foam core material for your poster or any other thick/heavy material.
- Poster presenters are responsible for printing their own poster and carrying or shipping it to the conference.
- The title of your poster should be done in block letters which are AT LEAST 8 to 10 cm (3 to 4 inches) high.
- All text must be easily readable from a distance of 1 to 2 meters. Make the lettering at least 1 cm high, smaller lettering will not be legible from a distance of 1 to 2 meters.
- All graphs and charts should be AT LEAST 25 X 30 cm (approximately 8.5 x 11 inches) or larger.
- Please include a copy of the DAC logo at the bottom right corner of your poster. You can download the PNG image file here.
- It is a good idea to sequentially number your materials in the poster. This will indicate to the viewer a logical progression through your poster.
- Provide an introduction (outline) and a summary or conclusion for your poster.
- Prepare your poster carefully so that it can be used as the basis to explain and answer questions from the viewers.
- Have your business cards available for those who may wish to contact you at a later date.
- Bring along a tablet of blank paper that you may use for a discussion of technical details relating to your poster.
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REVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESS
The DAC Technical Program Committee (TPC) determines the selection of research manuscripts to be included in the DAC program, as well as how they are integrated into technical sessions within the conference schedule. The Technical Program Committee is organized into several subcommittees, which focus on the various topic areas that are relevant to the conference. These are reasonably close, but not necessarily identical to the categories in the call for contributions. Manuscripts which are assigned by authors to unfitting categories may be reassigned by the program committee chair and subcommittee chairs to a subcommittee best able to review them.
DAC strives to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest (COI) between authors and reviewers so to provide a review process that is fair to all the authors. Submitters should report conflict of interests for all co-authors with members of the Technical Program Committee by the manuscript submission deadline, as discussed in the “Conflict of Interests” tab. The Technical Program Committee Chair may reassign manuscripts to different subcommittees to resolve conflicts of interest with Technical Program Committee members.
DAC will also compare each submission against a vast database to identify manuscripts which have significant similarity to previously published works. Submissions identified as plagiarized during this process will be rejected. Furthermore, the names of all the authors of the submission will be reported to IEEE and ACM, as well as the TPC Chair or the Editor-in-Chief of the venue where the duplicate was submitted. Further information on duplicate submissions is provided under the "Duplicate Submissions" tab at the top of this page.
Then DAC manuscripts undergo a double-blind review process; i.e., the identity of authors and reviewers is only known to the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair. Each subcommittee will select the best manuscripts submitted. The selectivity is influenced by the overall numbers of submissions, the capacity of the DAC schedule, and the number of manuscripts in each area.
The Technical Program Committee and its subcommittees will take into account the following aspects in selecting manuscripts:
- 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.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I need an invitation letter for my visa. How do I request this?
Prior to the launch of registration on March 20, authors may request an invitation letter by submitting our visa letter request form. After registration is open, you may request a letter as part of the registration process.
Do I need to register for DAC? If so, which registration rates are acceptable?
Yes, each accepted Work-in-Progress Poster must have a full conference registration associated with it; please reference your acceptance email for information on how to receive the Speaker Rate. This is a full conference registration. Research Speakers may not use the Full Conference Student, Engineering Track or I LOVE DAC registration rates.
How should I submit a research manuscript?
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, with one additional reference page, double-columned, 9 or 10-pt font, in PDF format only, be a readable file and follow the IEEE style 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.
How should I submit the conflict of interest (COI) information?
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.
What if authors failed to identify TPC members with 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 hold if members of the Technical Program Committee are marked as COI if no COI exists.
Which category should I select when I submit my manuscript?
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 (ex. “EDA1. System-on-chip and HW/SW Codesign”). A complete list of available categories and topic areas can be found in the CFP. Please note that there are separate categories for electronic design automation topics, embedded systems and software topics, autonomous electronic design, design and system security, and electronic design topics.
If my work is mainly about design, should I submit it to the regular research track or the Engineering Tracks?
The Research track at 62 DAC will include a DESIGN (DES) focus to feature high-quality contents 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.
I submitted a longer version of my manuscript to another conference/journal. Can I still submit it to DAC?
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.
Can a paper that has been uploaded to *arXiv* be submitted to DAC?
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.
How do I disclose a paper under review or an accepted but not published paper?
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.
Can I submit as a Work-in-Progress (WIP) presentation if my paper is not accepted as a research manuscript?
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.
You may also submit other distinct works directly through the LBR submission site. Please see the Late Breaking Results section in the Call for Contributions for more details.
I still have some questions. Who do I contact?
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