Overview of the 2015 CAD contest at ICCAD

The 2015 CAD Contest at ICCAD presents cutting-edge, real-world EDA problems and challenging benchmarks derived from modern industrial designs. It also provides a standard, publicly available evaluation framework for each of the problems. The ever-increasing complexity of integrated circuit design has brought forth new and challenging problems for the EDA community. These require novel, efficient, and high-quality algorithms and methodologies. It is our hope that the CAD Contest at ICCAD would encourage timely and much-needed research on these critical problems in the field of EDA.