The Design Automation Conference, or DAC is a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation. Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. ...
DAC started as the SHARE design automation workshop in 1964, and has been held yearly since. Up until the mid-70s, DAC had sessions on all types of design automation, including mechanical and architectural. After that, for all intents and purposes, only topics concerned with electronic design have been included. Also until the mid-70s, DAC was strictly a technical conference. Then a few companies started to request space to show their products, and within a few years the trade show portion of DAC became the main focus of the event. As a rough metric of the importance of the trade show portion, about 5500 people attended DAC in 2005, whereas ICCAD, at least as strong technically but with no trade show, drew perhaps a tenth as many attendees.
Other similar conferences are ICCAD (technical only, no trade show), Design and Test Europe (DATE), and the Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC).
DesignAutomationConference is sponsoring a Professional Development Program to encourage advanced undergraduate students (Junior or Senior levels) and first-year graduate students (beginning first year, or finishing first and beginning second year) to join the electronic designautomation profession or pursue graduate studies in this field.
This program will introduce students to DAC and the designautomation profession through meetings, tours, and by association with a mentor who is an advanced graduate student already working in the area.
DAC thanks ACM Special Interest Group on DesignAutomation (SIGDA) for administering the Young Student Support Program.
Design closure is the process of converging to a design that satisfies all constraints simultaneously.
DesignAutomation software was developed in the 70s, in academia and within large companies, but it was not until the early 1980s that software to help with the design portion of the process became commercially available.
Magma DesignAutomation was founded in 1997 to take advantage of the simplifications possible by building an IC design system from scratch.
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