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Use 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 industry-facing, single-shot process differs from the architecture venues' rebuttal-and-revision cycles.

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# DAC Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. DAC's Research-Manuscript review is
**double-blind, Technical-Program-Committee-driven, and single-shot**: papers are reviewed against
novelty and measured design-quality impact, discussed by the committee, and get a binary
**accept/reject** — there is no journal-style Major Revision round. Anchor to the DAC 2026 cycle
facts in `resources/official-source-map.md`.

## Process model

- Submission and review run on **Softconf/START** with **double-blind** anonymity: reviewers do not
  see author identities, and the manuscript must be scrubbed of identifying content.
- Each paper is read by multiple **TPC** members drawn from the relevant subcommittee (physical
  design, logic synthesis, verification/test, ML-for-EDA, security, embedded, etc.). Reviewers
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