2025 WIlliam J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2025 William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award Winners! 

Frontend: 

"LaZagna: An Open-Source Framework for Flexible 3D FPGA Architectural Exploration"

Lvcheng Chen; Ying Wu; Chenyi Wen; Shizhang Wang; Li Zhang; Bei Yu; Qi Sun; Cheng Zhuo 

Backend: 

“Semidefinite Programming-Based Decoupling Capacitor Placement for Power Distribution Network Optimization” 

Zong-Ying Cai, Wei-Han Mao, Yao-Wen Chang, Yang Lu, Jerry Bai, Bin-Chyi Tseng

Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper: 

"Caffeine: Towards Uniformed Representation and Acceleration for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" Chen Zhang; Guangyu Sun; Zhenman Fang; Peipei Zhou; Peichen Pan; Jason Cong