CADathlon Brasil 2022 Highlights

The CADathlon Brasil 2022 - 2nd Brazilian Programming Contest for Design Automation of Integrated Circuits (https://csbc.sbc.org.br/2022/cadathlon-brasil-en/) took place on August 2nd in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, as a co-located event of the 42nd Annual Congress of SBC (Brazilian Computer Society). It was organized by Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and sponsored by ACM/SIGDA, IEEE CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation), SBC/CECCI (SBC Special Committee on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design) and SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). It was financially sponsored by Synopsys, Chipus Microelectronics, ACM/SIGDA and IEEE CEDA.

As in the first edition, CADAthlon Brasil 2022 followed the same format as the ACM/SIGDA CADathlon, which happens annually co-located with ICCAD (International Conference on Computer-Aided Design). During the whole day, 15 two-person teams of students coming from different regions of Brazil worked to solve 6 practical problems on classical EDA topics such as circuit design & analysis, physical design, logic synthesis, high-level synthesis, circuit verification, and application of AI to design automation. The problems were prepared by a team of researchers from industry and academia.

1st Place – Team Turma da Monica from the University of Brasíli, and was formed by Enzo Yoshio Niho and Eduardo Quirino de Oliveira
2nd Place – Team Rabisco UFSC from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and was formed by Arthur Joao Lourenço and Bernardo Borges Sandoval. 

The top two teams were awarded money prizes offered by Synopsys. Read more.

The CADAthlon Brasil 2022 Organizing Committee greatly thanks the Congress of SBC organizers for the logistics support, the problem preparation team, and all sponsors, especially the financial support from Synopsys, Chipus Microelectronics, ACM/SIGDA, and IEEE CEDA (through the South Brazil Chapter), Synopsys and Chipus Microelectronics, which made it possible to cover the travel expenses of the competitors, making the event a huge success. 

The next edition of CADathlon Brasil will occur as a co-located event of the 43rd Annual Congress of SBC in July 2023 in Joao Pessoa, the northeast region of Brazil.