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Use 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) or a computer-architecture venue (ISCA/MICRO/HPCA), decided by contribution shape, QoR evidence maturity, and the November calendar.

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# DAC Topic Selection

Decide the venue *and the track* before drafting. DAC — the ACM/IEEE **Design Automation
Conference**, "The Chips to Systems Conference" — is the premier forum for **electronic design
automation (EDA)** and chip/system design. Its distinguishing structural fact, absent from the
academic architecture venues, is that DAC hosts **two peer-reviewed paper tracks with different
review models**: the double-blind, archival **Research Manuscript** track and the industry-facing
**Engineering Track**. Picking the wrong track wastes a full cycle just as surely as picking the
wrong conference.

## The two questions, in order

1. **Is this a DAC contribution at all?** DAC rewards work that advances how chips and systems are
   *designed, automated, verified, or secured* — a new placement/routing algorithm, a synthesis or
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