dac-artifact-evaluationUse when packaging the code, benchmarks, and flows behind an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript into a credible, reusable artifact — given that DAC has historically run no formal artifact-evaluation or badge-issuing track (verify per cycle), so the goal is reviewer credi
dac-author-responseUse when handling reviewer feedback for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript — writing a concise, evidence-first rebuttal IF the cycle runs an author-response period (verify; DAC has historically not), and otherwise converting DAC reviews into a targeted response-to-rev
dac-camera-readyUse when preparing the final ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research-Manuscript camera-ready after acceptance, covering de-anonymization, restoring author/affiliation/acknowledgement/funding blocks, the ACM copyright form and rights stamp, the April proceedings deadline, ACM Digital Lib
dac-experimentsUse when designing or auditing the empirical evaluation of an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering standard EDA benchmark suites (ISPD, EPFL, ISCAS/ITC, TAU, CircuitNet, OpenROAD flows), fair state-of-the-art baselines, QoR/PPA reporting with runtime, per-benchma
dac-related-workUse when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering the EDA literature lanes (DAC/ICCAD/DATE/ASP-DAC/TCAD/TODAES), delta-first positioning against the strongest prior tool, honest benchmark-suite lineage, and t
dac-reproducibilityUse when building the reproducibility story for an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering pinned EDA benchmark suites and versions (ISPD, EPFL, ISCAS/ITC, TAU, CircuitNet), open-source flow provenance (OpenROAD, ABC, Yosys), PDK/library and tool-version disclosure,
dac-review-processUse when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria, program-committee discussion, the accept/reject (no major-revision) outcome, the ~20-25% selectivity, and how DAC's
dac-submissionUse when auditing an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research-Manuscript submission for Softconf readiness, covering the two-stage abstract-then-manuscript deadline, the 6+1-page ACM double-column page budget with its references-only last page, the double-blind anonymization sweep, TPC c
dac-supplementaryUse when deciding what belongs inside the six reviewed pages of an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript versus in an external repository, given DAC's tight 6+1 budget, its references-only seventh page, the double-blind constraint on any linked material, and the absence of
dac-topic-selectionUse 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
dac-workflowUse to plan a full ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research-Manuscript campaign backward from the mid-to-late-November manuscript deadline through the two-stage abstract-then-manuscript submission on Softconf, the winter review, the March notification, the April camera-ready and copyrigh
dac-writing-styleUse when drafting or tightening the prose of an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering the QoR-forward first-page arc, stating the design-automation contribution as a measured delta, fitting a complete argument into six double-column pages plus a references-only pa