About DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design and design automation of electronic chips to systems. DAC offers outstanding training, education, exhibits and superb networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers and vendors. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) and IEEE's Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).


Event Highlights

Introducing Synopsys Academic & Research Alliances (SARA)

Synopsys Academic & Research Alliances (SARA) was born through our commitment to growing relationships with universities beyond our University Software Program—please join us in celebrating students and professors at some of our sponsored events at DAC.

Also Don't Miss!

While you enjoy your coffee at booth #1320, why not join us to engage with our Synopsys innovators for our unique Synopsys Speaks! initiative? Learn how Synopsys employees are leading the way in solving industry challenges through passion, innovation, and collaboration.​

Monday, July 11​

  • 1:45 p.m.: Pawini Mahajan, Product Marketing Manager, TestMAX
  •  2:45 p.m.: Weikai Sun, VP, Engineering​
  •  3:45 p.m.: Renu Mehra, VP, Engineering​

 

Tuesday, July 12​

  • 1:45 p.m.: ​Ron Duncan, Senior Manager, Applications Engineering​
  •  2:45 p.m.: Deepashree Sengupta, R&D Engineer​, Staff
  • 3:45 p.m.: Radhika Shankar, Group Director, Applications Engineering

 

Wednesday, July 13​

  • 11:45 a.m.: Sashi Obilisetty, Group Director, R&D
<p>Join us at Synopsys PrimeTime SIG, taking place during DAC on the evening of Monday, July 11. A great lineup of customers and partners will share their experiences and results using Synopsys signoff tools and methodologies to achieve their design goals with high accuracy while accelerating design closure. Please visit the event page <a href="https://www.synopsys.com/events/primetime-sig.html">here</a> to learn more and register. </p>

PrimeTime SIG

Join us at Synopsys PrimeTime SIG, taking place during DAC on the evening of Monday, July 11. A great lineup of customers and partners will share their experiences and results using Synopsys signoff tools and methodologies to achieve their design goals with high accuracy while accelerating design closure. Please visit the event page here to learn more and register. 

Designing 3D-ICs in a 2D World

Start your Tuesday morning at DAC by attending our panel discussion on 3D-IC design while enjoying a full breakfast before the exhibit floor opens. Synopsys and Ansys are co-sponsoring a panel of leading customers and industry executives who will discuss their experiences with adopting 2.5D/3D-IC manufacturing technology for standard semiconductor products and bespoke silicon solutions. Space is limited so please register today to secure your spot.

Sessions Spotlight

Hear from Synopsys speakers at a variety of venues throughout the conference.

Synopsys & IFS - Enabling RISC-V Design Solutions

Speaker: Kiran Vittal

Time: 11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. PDT
Location: Intel Foundry Services Booth #2325
 


Transforming EDA Time-to-Market with Synopsys Cloud

Speaker: Vikram Bhatia

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. PDT
Location: Design-on-Cloud Theater, Booth #1258
 


Bring Your Semiconductor Designs to Market Faster Using Synopsys Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Speaker: Vikram Bhatia

Time: 3:10 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. PDT
Location: Microsoft Booth #1252
 


Memory Read Yield Estimation Using High Sigma Monte Carlo

Speaker: Rakesh Shenoy

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 2012
 


Open Source Hardware to Enable Faster TTR

Organizer: Sashi Obilisetty

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 2010
 


The Hardware/Software Nexus in Chip Design​

Organizer: Sabya Das

Speaker: Olivier Coudert

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 2008
 


Verifying I/O Designs Using Symbolic Simulation to Increase Design and Model Robustness

Speakers: Rakesh Shenoy, Moninder Singh

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 2012
 


Static Timing and Power Analysis with Process Space Exploration

Speakers: Asheesh Baghel, Ruijing Shen, Mayur Bubna, Li Ding

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall​
 


Automated Timing-aware Dynamic Voltage Drop ECO

Speakers: Len Hsu, KH Kim

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall
 


Improving FPGA Quality & Prototyping Turn Around Time Using Static Verification​

Speakers: Amit Goldie, Himanshu Kathuria, Sampath Amarasinghe​

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall​


Cell EM Aware Design Optimization

Speakers: Jinmo Jung, Vivek Panure

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall
 


Design Timing Effects of Layer-to-Layer Interconnect Skew​

Speakers: Ayhan Mutlu, Duc Huynh, Jian-Feng Chen, Li Ding​

Time: 5:10 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. PDT
Location: DAC Pavilion, Level 2 Exhibit Hall​
 


Delivering Technological and Productivity Innovations to Drive Design in SysMoore Era​

Speaker: Shekhar Kapoor

Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Samsung Booth #2355
 
Machine Learning for Synthesis and Synthesis for Machine Learning​

Session Chair: Sripada Subramanyam

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3004
 


Creating Robust EDA and IP Ecosystems to Strengthen the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain

Speaker: Bari Biswas

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 2012
 


VFopt: ML-Based Optimization Voltage/Frequency Exploration System

Speakers: Varun Gunnala, Dong-Hyun Lee

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. PDT
Location: Room 2008
 


Bring Your Semiconductor Designs to Market Faster Using Synopsys Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Speaker: Sridhar Panchapakesan

Time: 11:10 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. PDT
Location: Microsoft Booth #1252
 


Synopsys Fusion Design Platform and IFS Enabling Next-Generation SoCs

Speaker: Arvind Narayanan

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. PDT
Location: Intel Foundry Services Booth #2325
 


Unleashing Full Analog Design and Simulation Environment on Optimized Cloud

Speaker: Teng-Kiat Lee

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. PDT
Location: Design-on-Cloud Theater, Booth #1258
 


A Scalable Symbolic Simulation Tool for Low Power Embedded Systems​

Speaker: Hari Cherupalli

Time: 1:53 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3004


Women in Engineering: Transforming the Innovation Paradigm

Speaker: Radhika Shankar

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. PDT 
Location: DAC Pavilion, Level 2 Exhibit Hall
 


New Directions in Silicon Solutions

Organizer: Sashi Obilisetty

Speaker:  Yervant Zorian

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 2008
 


Improving LUT-Based Optimization for ASIC​

Speakers: Luca Amaru, Patrick Vuillod, Jiong Luo

Time: 3:50 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3007
 


Enhancing Silicon Screening Using Optimized Clustering-Based SDD Vector

Speaker: Khader Abdel-Hafez, YongJoon Kim

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall
 


A High-Accuracy Voltage-Aware-Timing Solution for HPC Design

Speaker: Dongli Song

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall
 


Multi-Phase Clocking for Multi-Threaded Gate-Level-Pipelined Superconductive Logic

Speaker: Min Pan, Tong Liu

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Lobby
How Fast Can You Go? It is a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Placement World!

Session Chair: Siddhartha Nath​

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT​
Location: Room 3007
 


It’s Getting Cloudy Out There

Speaker: Sandeep Mehndiratta

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. PDT
Location: DAC Pavilion, Level 2 Exhibit Hall​
 


Cryogenic Computing, Super Cool or Not?​

Speaker: Jamil Kawa

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3001
 


Future Unleashed: Beyond-CMOS Meets the Real World​

Session Chair: Luca Amaru

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3002
 


Multi-Die Systems and HPC Requirements​

Session Chair: John Koeter

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Samsung Booth #2355
 


FPopt: ML-Based Chip Floorplan Optimization

Speakers: Joe R Walston, Varun Gunnala, Dong-Hyun Lee

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Level 2 Exhibit Hall​
 


Automating Analog Layout - Has the Time Finally Come?

Speaker: Weikai Sun

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3001
 


Keep Moving up and Looking Sideways with Verification Boosters!

Session Chair: Maheshwar Chandrasekar

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3000
 


So You Want a Better Design? Go with Faster Timing and Lower Power Please!​​

Session Chair: Karthi Duraisamy

Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PDT
Location: Room 3007