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DAC, Design Automation Conference
DAC, Design Automation Conference
Status	Active
Frequency	Annual
Years active	60
Founded	May 6, 1964; 60 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Founder	Pasquale (Pat) Pistilli
Most recent	DAC2023
Next event	DAC2024
Participants	6000
Area	Electronic design automation
Sponsors	ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation
Website	Design Automation Conference

The Design Automation Conference, or DAC, is an annual event, a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation (EDA).

DAC receives approximately 1100 research paper submissions annually. A technical program committee of 266 experts performs a double-blind review, selecting 263 papers for publication in the proceedings.^[1]^[2]

The trade show features approximately 100 companies in the field of design automation such as Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Siemens EDA and Ansys.

Over the past few years the conference location has been alternating among Austin and San Francisco. The conference is usually held in June.

DAC is sponsored by two professional societies:

ACM-SIGDA (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Design Automation) and
IEEE-CEDA (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation),

in technical cooperation with IEEE-SSCS (IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society).^[3]

DAC is organized by hundreds of volunteer committee members from EDA companies and academia.^[4]

Origins

DAC is the oldest and largest conference in EDA, starting in 1964.^[5] It grew out of the SHARE ("Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort") design automation workshop. Its originators Marie Pistilli and Pasquale (Pat) Pistilli were honored by the EDA community. Pat received the highest honor in EDA industry, the Phil Kaufman Award, for this effort, and Marie was honored by having an award established in her name, the Marie Pistilli Award.^[6]

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, the focus shifted to electronic design.^[7] Currently, the topics at DAC also include embedded systems, autonomous systems, Artificial Intelligence hardware, hardware security, and Intellectual Property.

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. The first commercial DAC was held in June 1984. As a rough metric of the importance of the trade show portion, about 6,300 people attended DAC in 2018, whereas ICCAD, at least as strong technically but with no trade show, drew perhaps a tenth as many attendees.

Recent history

The table below shows the edition, year, location, and the general chair of recent DAC events.^[8]

Key
†	Denotes future event

Edition	Year	Location	Conference center	General chair
26th	1989	Las Vegas, Nevada	Las Vegas Convention Center	Don Thomas
27th	1990	Orlando, Florida	Orange County Convention Center	Richard Smith
28th	1991	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	A. Richard Newton
29th	1992	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Convention Center	Daniel Schweikert
30th	1993	Dallas, Texas	Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center	Alfred Dunlop
31st	1994	San Diego, California	San Diego Convention Center	Michael Lorenzetti
32nd	1995	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Bryan Preas
33rd	1996	Las Vegas, Nevada	Las Vegas Convention Center	Thomas Pennino
34th	1997	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Convention Center	Ellen Yoffa
35th	1998	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Basant Chawla
36th	1999	New Orleans, Louisiana	New Orleans Morial Convention Center	Mary Jane Irwin
37th	2000	Los Angeles, California	Los Angeles Convention Center	Giovanni De Micheli
38th	2001	Las Vegas, Nevada	Las Vegas Convention Center	Jan M. Rabaey
39th	2002	New Orleans, Louisiana	New Orleans Morial Convention Center	Bryan Ackland
40th	2003	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Convention Center	Ian Getreu
41st	2004	San Diego, California	San Diego Convention Center	Sharad Malik
42nd	2005	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Convention Center	William H. Joyner Jr.
43rd	2006	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Ellen Sentovich
44th	2007	San Diego, California	San Diego Convention Center	Steven Levitan
45th	2008	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Convention Center	Limor Fix
46th	2009	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Andrew Kahng
47th	2010	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Convention Center	Sachin Sapatnekar
48th	2011	San Diego, California	San Diego Convention Center	Leon Stok
49th	2012	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Patrick Groeneveld
50th	2013	Austin, Texas	Austin Convention Center	Yervant Zorian
51st	2014	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Soha Hassoun
52nd	2015	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Anne Cirkel
53rd	2016	Austin, Texas	Austin Convention Center	Chuck Alpert
54th	2017	Austin, Texas	Austin Convention Center	Mac McNamara
55th	2018	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Xiaobo Sharon Hu
56th	2019	Las Vegas, Nevada	Las Vegas Convention Center	Rob Aitken
57th	2020	Virtual due to COVID-19	—	Zhuo Li
58th	2021	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Harry Foster
59th	2022	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Rob Oshana
60th	2023	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Jörg Henkel
61st†	2024	San Francisco, California	Moscone Center	Vivek De