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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between ISCA's November gate and the MICRO, HPCA, and ASPLOS seats in the architecture year, and weighing the main track against the industry track.

When to use

• deciding if a project belongs at ISCA
• testing if the machine is the contribution
• choosing between ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, and ASPLOS
• weighing main track against industry track
• identifying the center of gravity for hardware organization
• planning venue retargeting based on calendar and reviewer fit
• running a fit worksheet for venue selection

When not to use

• software-only contributions on unmodified silicon
• circuits or devices below the microarchitecture line
• speedups on unmodified commercial chips without architectural mechanism
• new benchmark suites without design analysis
• accelerators with no generalizable design insight
• RTL-quality engineering of known ideas

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