ASP-DAC Best Paper Award

The ASP-DAC Best Paper Award is a prestigious honor presented annually at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, recognizing the most outstanding, innovative, and impactful research in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), VLSI design, and related fields. Winning papers are selected for technical excellence and often invited for extended publication in specialized journals.

Award/Recognition Menu

2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006

2024

Paper

FineMap: A Fine-grained GPU-parallel LUT Mapping Engine

Tianji Liu; Lei Chen; Xing Li; Mingxuan Yuan; Evangeline F.Y. Young

Publication Date

March 2024

Event Where Awarded

2024 Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

SPIRAL: Signal-Power Integrity Co-Analysis for High-Speed Inter-Chiplet Serial Links Validation

X. Dong, S. Sun, Y. Jiang, J. Hu, D. Gao and C. Zhuo

Publication Date

March 2024

Event Where Awarded

2024 Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2023

Paper

Rethink before Releasing Your Model: ML Model Extraction Attack in EDA

C. -C. Chang, J. Pan, Z. Xie, J. Hu and Y. Chen

Event Where Awarded

2023 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Approximate Floating-Point FFT Design with Wide Precision-Range and High Energy Efficiency

C. Wen, Y. Wu, X. Yin and C. Zhuo

Event Where Awarded

2023 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2022

Paper

Optimal Data Allocation for Graph Processing in Processing-in-Memory Systems

Z. Li, X. Chen and Y. Han

Publication Date

February 2022

Event Where Awarded

2022 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Net Separation-Oriented Printed Circuit Board Placement via Margin Maximization

C. -K. Cheng, C. -T. Ho and C. Holtz

Event Where Awarded

2022 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2021

Paper

Connection-based Processing-In-Memory Engine Design Based on Resistive Crossbars

S. Zhang, H. H. Li and U. Schlichtmann

Publication Date

March 2021

Event Where Awarded

2021 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

TreeNet: Deep Point Cloud Embedding for Routing Tree Construction

Wei Li; Yuxiao Qu; Gengjie Chen; Yuzhe Ma; Bei Yu

Publication Date

January 2021

Event Where Awarded

2021 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2020

Paper

Towards Area-Efficient Optical Neural Networks: An FFT-based Architecture

J. Gu, Z. Zhao, C. Feng, M. Liu, R. T. Chen and D. Z. Pan

Publication Date

March 2020

Event Where Awarded

2020 25th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Equivalent Capacitance Guided Dummy Fill Insertion for Timing and Manufacturability

S. -J. Yu, C. -C. Kao, C. -H. Huang and I. H. -R. Jiang

Publication Date

March 2020

Event Where Awarded

2020 25th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2019

Paper

GraphSAR: A Sparsity-Aware Processing-in-Memory Architecture for Large-Scale Graph Processing on ReRAMs

G. Dai, T. Huang, Y. Wang, H. Yang and J. Wawrzynek

Publication Date

April 2024

Event Where Awarded

2019 24th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Energy-Efficient, Low-Latency Realization of Neural Networks through Boolean Logic Minimization

M. Nazemi, G. Pasandi and M. Pedram

Publication Date

April 2024

Event Where Awarded

2019 24th Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2018

Paper

Process Variation Aware Data Management for Magnetic Skyrmions Racetrack Memory

F. Chen, Z. Li, W. Kang, W. Zhao, H. Li and Y. Chen

Publication Date

February 2018

Event Where Awarded

2018 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2017

Paper

Classification Accuracy Improvement for Neuromorphic Computing Systems with One-level Precision Synapses

Y. Wang, W. Wen, L. Song and H. H. Li

Publication Date

February 2017

Event Where Awarded

2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Spendthrift: Machine Learning Based Resource and Frequency Scaling for Ambient Energy Harvesting Nonvolatile Processors

Kaisheng Ma, Xueqing Li, Srivatsa Rangachar Srinivasa, John (Jack) Sampson, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Yongpan Liu, Yuan Xie

Publication Date

February 2017

Event Where Awarded

2017 22nd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2016

Paper

Netlist Reverse Engineering for High-Level Functionality Reconstruction

T. Meade, S. Zhang and Y. Jin

Publication Date

March 2016

Event Where Awarded

2016 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Lattice-based Boolean diagrams

Ahmed Nassar, Fadi Kurdahi

Publication Date

March 2016

Event Where Awarded

2016 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2015

Paper

Quantitative Modeling of Racetrack Memory, A Tradeoff among Area, Performance, and Power

Chao Zhang, Guangyu Sun, Weiqi Zhang, Fan Mi, Hai Li and W. Zhao

Publication Date

March 2015

Event Where Awarded

2015 20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2014

Paper

Flexible packed stencil design with multiple shaping apertures for e-beam lithography

C. Chu and W. -K. Mak

Publication Date

February 2014

Event Where Awarded

2014 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2013

Paper

A Case for Wireless 3D NoCs for CMPs

Hiroki Matsutani, Paul Bogdan, Radu Marculescu, Yasuhiro Take, Daisuke Sasaki, Hao Zhang, Michihiro Koibuchi, Tadahiro Kuroda, Hideharu Amano

Publication Date

April 2013

Event Where Awarded

2013 18th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

I-LUTSim: An iterative look-up table based thermal simulator for 3-D Ics

Chi-Wen Pan, Yu-Min Lee, Pei-YuHuang, Chi-Ping Yang, Chang-Tzu Lin, Chia-Hsin Lee, Yung-Fa Chou, Ding-Ming Kwai

Publication Date

April 2013

Event Where Awarded

2013 18th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2012

Paper

An intelligent analysis of Iddq data for chip classification in very deep-submicron (VDSM) CMOS technology

Chia-Ling Chang, Chia-Ching Chang, Hui-Ling Chan, C. H. . -P. Wen and J. Bhadra

Publication Date

March 2012

Event Where Awarded

2012 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

EPIC: Efficient prediction of IC manufacturing hotspots with a unified meta-classification formulation

Duo Ding, Bei Yu, J. Ghosh and D. Z. Pan

Publication Date

March 2012

Event Where Awarded

2012 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2011

Paper

Co-design of cyber-physical systems via controllers with flexible delay constraints

D. Goswami, R. Schneider and S. Chakraborty

Publication Date

March 2011

Event Where Awarded

2011 16th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2010

Paper

SCGPSim: A fast SystemC simulator on GPUs

M. Nanjundappa, H. D. Patel, B. A. Jose and S. K. Shukla

Publication Date

February 2010

Event Where Awarded

2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

A New Graph-theoretic, Multi-objective Layout Decomposition Framework for Double Patterning Lithography

J. -S. Yang, K. Lu, M. Cho, K. Yuan and D. Z. Pan

Publication Date

February 2010

Event Where Awarded

2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2009

Paper

FastYield: Variation-Aware, Layout-Driven Simultaneous Binding and Module Selection for Performance Yield Optimization

G. Lucas, S. Cromar and D. Chen

Publication Date

February 2009

Event Where Awarded

2009 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Efficiently finding the ‘best’ solution with multi-objectives from multiple topologies in topology library of analog circuit

Y. Liu, M. Yoshioka, K. Homma and T. Shibuya

Publication Date

February 2009

Event Where Awarded

2009 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2008

Paper

An efficient, fully nonlinear, variability-aware non-monte-carlo yield estimation procedure with applications to SRAM cells and ring oscillators

Chenjie Gu and Jaijeet Roychowdhury

Publication Date

April 2008

Event Where Awarded

2008 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

Variability-Driven Module Selection with Joint Design Time Optimization and Post-Silicon Tuning

Feng Wang, Xiaoxia Wu and Yuan Xie

Publication Date

April 2008

Event Where Awarded

2008 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2007

Paper

Post-Routing Redundant Via Insertion for Yield/Reliability Improvement

Kuang-Yao Lee and Ting-Chi Wang

Publication Date

March 2006

Event Where Awarded

2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

Paper

A New Methodology for Interconnect Parasitics Extraction Considering Photo-Lithography Effects

Y. Zhou, Z. Li, Y. Tian, W. Shi and F. Liu

Publication Date

May 2007

Event Where Awarded

2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

2006

Paper

Constraint-Driven Bus Matrix Synthesis for MPSoC

S. Pasricha, N. Dutt and M. Ben-Romdhane

Publication Date

March 2006

Event Where Awarded

2006 Asia and South Pacific Conference on Design Automation

Paper

Post-Routing Redundant Via Insertion for Yield/Reliability Improvement

Kuang-Yao Lee and Ting-Chi Wang

Publication Date

March 2006

Event Where Awarded

2006 Asia and South Pacific Conference on Design Automation