Young Student Fellow Program
Are you an EDA student interested in attending virtual DAC in July 2020? Would you like to learn more about EDA and network with like-minded individuals?
Welcome to the virtual Young Fellows Program at the 57th Design Automation Conference July 19-23 2020 (www.dac.com) This is an educational program to kickstart young students in the field of Electronic Design Automation. The program provides free access to DAC for eligible students. It will - among others - include a unique hands-on program with a High-Level Synthesis Flow with SystemC to develop and analyze an Integrated Circuit and Tensorflow Machine Learning.The program is funded by the Design Automation Conference and is run by the volunteers of the DAC Executive Committee. We especially appreciate the support from Cadence Design Systems for sponsoring the program again in 2020.
Here is the outline of the DAC Fellows Program:
- Participants will receive free full-conference registration for the 2020 Design Automation Conference, which gives access to all sessions, tutorials, workshops, etc. The Design Automation Conference will be held July 20-24, 2020. You attend the virtual DAC sessions and walk the virtual exhibit. Most activities will be during Pacific Standard Time, but we will also try to accommodate other time zones.
- We will kick off the DAC Young Fellow Program 3 weeks before DAC. On Monday June 29th there will be an opening session and a ‘get to know each other’ networking session.
- In order to foster collaborations and make lasting bonds as part of your experience, you will be working in a team with other young fellows. The teams will be formed based on interest and time-zone compatibility while also trying to get you to know people whom you might not have met before.
- The early start session enables us to add an exciting program element: System on Chip Design with High-Level Synthesis and Tensorflow Machine Learning. You will design a real deep learning system and run state-of-the-art EDA tools from Cadence.
- At the same time the program will include a professional development component where you will learn how to write and present your research.
- Meet with your team via zoom in the 2 weeks before DAC to design the AI hardware, as well as to prepare for the presentations. Plan to spend approximately 3 hours per week between June 29th to July 19th working towards different modules of the program. And spend at least that much during the actual conference in the week of July 20-24, 2020.
- Prepare a digital poster on the work you are doing and present this to us during a special DAC Poster session on Tuesday July 21st. There will be a few time slots to serve the different time zones. The topic should be the research of your choosing, for instance your latest project, or the paper you prepared for DAC. Your poster presentation could be attended by well known EDA professors, professionals and perhaps your future employer.
- During the week of DAC you attend the sessions, keynotes and more. By Thursday July 23rd you are asked to prepare a short video on a research paper that you liked. This can be any paper presented at DAC, other than your own or the ones of your institution. You can find examples of last year’s videos at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/651674381547635/ .
-On Friday July 24 we end with our famous closing session. Upon successful completion you will receive a formal certificate . As an extra incentive there will be very worthwhile prizes for the teams and individuals that stood out.
This program is an exciting and useful introduction into the world of Design Automation, while at the same time making new friends. You must be a full-time student on order to participate. Detailed instruction will be sent to you after you signed up.
We look forward to meeting you virtually at DAC!
Application is now closed
Coordinators
Contact the following coordinators by email if you have further questions:
Patrick Groeneveld
DAC Finance Chair
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Laleh Behjat
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
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58th DAC
DAC 58 is July 11-15, 2021 in San Francisco
DAC is the premier conference devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems (EDA), embedded systems and software (ESS), and intellectual property (IP).
