Sponsored by SIGDA
SIGDA Liaison
Prof. Igor Markov
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Contest Guidelines & Eligibility
- Eligibility: The competition is open
to all graduate students
specializing in CAD currently enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. granting
institution in any country. The student must be enrolled at the
University
during the Fall of 2006.
- Travel Awards: SIGDA and others have
generously donated funds to secure travel
and accommodation grants to assist students in entering the
contest. Participants will receive either full or partial travel and
lodging awards.
- Contest Awards: A first prize and an
honorable mention will be
provided to the best team and second best team. The awards will be
announced on Monday, Nov. 6, during the opening session at ICCAD.
The winners and participants will be honored during the SIGDA member
meeting in the evening of Monday, Nov. 6.
- Contest Participation: Several teams
will compete against each
other to solve some EDA related problems. Each team should have 2
people. The participants could be from the same school or different
schools, but both MUST be graduate students working in EDA. If you
really want to compete and cannot find a partner, please drop an email
to imarkov at eecs.umich.edu. We will put a little effort in matching people
up.
You must complete a team application September 29, 2006 to be
considered for participation.
- Hardware/Software Setup:
Each team will be provided with an Intel box with a specific Linux
distribution.
The exact release will be posted on Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. Some
software
infrastructure may be released then too.
- Preparation Guidelines: More
detailed information about the contest topics will be released on
Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. The organizing committee will
then suggest a handful of papers as recommended reading material.
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