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dac-topic-selection

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Use when deciding whether an EDA or chip-design project belongs at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) and, if so, in the double-blind archival Research Manuscript track versus the industry-facing Engineering Track — or whether it should route to a sibling EDA venue (ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC) or a computer-architecture venue (ISCA/MICRO/HPCA), decided by contribution shape, QoR evidence maturity, and the November calendar.

When to use

• Deciding if a project belongs at DAC
• Choosing between Research Manuscript and Engineering Track
• Routing to sibling EDA venues like ICCAD, DATE, or ASP-DAC
• Routing to computer-architecture venues like ISCA, MICRO, or HPCA
• Evaluating contribution shape and QoR evidence maturity
• Assessing ML-for-EDA contributions
• Evaluating hardware security contributions
• Determining venue based on the November calendar

When not to use

• Pure computer-architecture results with incidental EDA angle
• Analog/RF circuit design contributions
• Test/reliability depth contributions
• ML papers with toy EDA wrappers
• Device-physics contributions without automation or design-quality focus

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