2019 Best Paper/Presentation Recipients

DAC BEST PAPER AWARD

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Dreamplace: Deep Learning Toolkit-enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement

Speaker:
Yibo Lin     Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX

Authors:
Yibo Lin     Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX
Shounak Dhar     Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX
Wuxi Li      Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX
Haoxing Ren      NVIDIA Corp., Austin, TX
Brucek Khailany     NVIDIA Corp., Austin, TX
David Z. Pan      Univ. of Texas at Austin, TX


NOMINATED BEST PAPER CANDIDATES

  • LithoGAN: End-to-end Lithography Modeling with Generative Adversarial Networks
  • BRIC: Locality-based Encoding for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing
  • A 1.17 TOPS-W, 150fps Accelerator for Multi-face Detection and Alignment
  • DREAMPlace: Deep Learning Toolkit-enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement
  • Accuracy vs. Efficiency: Achieving Both through FPGA-Implementation Aware Neural Architecture Search
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BEST PAPER AWARD COMMITTEE

  • Jörg Henkel (Chair), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Yao-Wen Chang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
  • Ramesh Karri, New York University, New York City, NY
  • Laura Pozzi, USI Lugano, Switzerland
  • Dimitrios Soudris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Mircea Stan, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  • Sachin Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

DESIGNER TRACK BEST PRESENTATION - EMBEDDED SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE

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Clouds, Containers, and your Simulations & Virtual Platforms

Speaker:
Jakob Engblom      Intel, Corp.Stockholm, Sweden

Authors:
Jakob Engblom      Intel, Corp.Stockholm, Sweden

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Glow as a Machine Learning Compiler for Heterogeneous Hardware

Speaker:
Jordan Fix      Facebook, Menlo Park, CA

Authors:
Jordan Fix      Facebook, Menlo Park, CA


DESIGNER TRACK BEST PRESENTATION - FRONT-END

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Deadlock & Livelock Detection in Power Controllers Using Under-constrained Formal Testbench

Speaker:
Ipshita Tripathi     Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Noida, India

Authors:
Ipshita Tripathi     Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Noida, India
Arumugam Velayoudame     Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Bangalore, India
Rahul Gupta     Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Noida, India
Vinay Garipelli      Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. & Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Bangalore, India

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Improving Design Performance Using Machine Learning in Synthesis

Speaker:
Gaurav K. Varshney     Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

Authors:
Gaurav K. Varshney      Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Akshi Tomar     Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

DESIGNER TRACK BEST PRESENTATION - BACK-END

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A Hybrid Clock Tree with Multi-Spine Using Automated Design Methodology For Low Cost and Low Power Complex LSIS

Speaker:
Takashi Hasegawa      Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan

Authors:
Takashi Hasegawa     Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan
Maki Yajima      Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan
Makoto Fujiwara      Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan
Takanori Saeki     Sony LSI Design Inc., Atsugi, Japan

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A Multi-Perspective Approach to IC Power Grid Development for 7NM Based Designs

Speaker:
Mahendrasing J. Patil      Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India

Authors:
Mahendrasing J. Patil      Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India
Ravi Teja Susarla     Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India
Surendra Boosam Kota      Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India


IP TRACK BEST PRESENTATION

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Memory Systems for AI and Leading-edge Applications

Speaker:
Steven Woo      Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Authors:
Steven Woo      Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Sanjay Charagulla      Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Frank Ferro      Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA