Best Paper Awards
2023: Funchal – Madeira Island, Portugal
The 2023 awardees were:
"A Simplified Variability-Aware VCM Memristor Model for Efficient Circuit Simulation,"
presented by Vasileios Ntinas.
"A Novel Area Efficient Inductorless Super-Regenerative Receiver Front-End for Medical Brain Implants,"
presented by Gunhan Dundar.
"Synthesizable ADPLL Generator: From Specification to GDS,"
presented by Kyumin Kwon.
"A detailed, cell-by-cell look into the effects of aging on an SRAM PUF using a specialized test array,"
presented by Andres Santana-Andreo.
2022: Villasimius – Sardinia, Italy
The 2022 awardees were:
"Exploiting Saturable Inductors in SEPIC Regulators ,"
presented by Nicola Femia.
"Machine Learning Approaches for Transformer Modeling ,"
presented by Fabio Passos.
"Multi-harvesting smart solution for self-powered wearable objects ,"
presented by Malek Teib.
"Accelerating Electromigration Stress Analysis Using Low-Rank Balanced Truncation,"
presented by Olympia Axelou.
IC Design Contest
2023: Funchal – Madeira Island, Portugal (co-sponsored by MDPI)
"Paving the Way for the Electronic Design Automation of Power Management Units,"
presented by Carlos Santos, IST-Ulisboa, INESC-ID.
EDA Competition
The student EDA competition has been a vital, thrilling, and dynamic event that has taken place in SMACD conferences since the 2012 edition with one unique goal: Enhance design automation for integrated circuits and systems. The SMACD EDA Competition requires submitting a full paper, a presentation by the contesting student(s), and a live demonstration of the EDA tool. The contestants then enrolled in a challenging discussion with a jury panel of industry, academia, and IEEE CEDA members. The jury distinguished the best applications. A monetary prize of $1,000 has been awarded to the winners of SMACD’s EDA Competition.
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2023: Funchal – Madeira Island, Portugal (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2023 winners were:
"Single-Electron-Transistor Compact Model for Spin-Qubit Readout,"
presented by Samantha van Rijs, Delft University of Technology.
""RapidIP - Fast & Universal Synthesis of RF-Circuits,"
presented by David Bierbuesse, RWTH Aachen University.
2022: Villasimius – Sardinia, Italy (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2022 winner was:
"A Design Flow and EDA-Tool for an Automated Implementation of ASIC Configuration Interfaces",
presented by Johannes Bastl, RWTH Aachen University.
2021: Erfurt, Germany (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2021 awarded tools were:
1.
"Trash or Treasure? Machine-Learning PCB layout anomaly detection with AnoPCB,"
presented by Julian Kuners, Technische Universität Ilmenau.
2.
"Adaptive Test Bench Generation, Simulation and Parameter Extraction for AMS Circuitry,"
presented by Alexander Meyer, RWTH Aachen University.
3.
"A Deep Learning Toolbox for Analog Integrated Circuit Placement,"
presented by António Gusmão, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Lisboa.
2019: Lausanne, Switzerland (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2019 awarded tools were:
“TiDeVa: A Toolbox for the Automated and Robust Analysis of Time-Dependent Variability at Transistor Level,”
presented by Pablo Saraza-Canflanca, IMSE-CNM, CSIC and Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
“Mixed-Signal Hardware Security Using MixLock: Demonstration in an Audio Application,”
presented by Julian Leonhard Sorbonne, Université, CNRS, LIP6, France
2018: Prague, Czech Republic (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2018 awarded tools were:
1.
“SETA: A CAD tool for Single Event Transient Analysis and Mitigation on Flash-based FPGAs,"
presented by Sara Azimi, Politecnico di Torino.
2.
“ToPoliNano & MagCAD: a Complete Framework for Design and Simulation of Digital Circuits based on Emerging Technologies,"
presented by Umberto Garlando, Politecnico di Torino.
3.
“ReSeMBleD- Methods for Response Surface Model Behavioral Description,”
presented by Maike Taikken, University of Bremen.
2017: Giardini Naxos - Taormina, Italy (co-sponsored by IEEE CEDA and IEEE CAS)
The 2017 awarded tools were:
"A New Method for the Analysis of Movement Dependent Parasitics in Full Custom Designed MEMS Sensor,"
presented by Axel Hald, Automotive Electronics, Robert Bosch Reutlingen.
"CASE: A Reliability Simulation Tool for Analog ICs,"
presented by Pablo Martín-Lloret, Instituto de Microelectronica de Sevilla.
"Automated Generation of System-Level AMS Operating Condition Checks: Your Model's Insurance Policy,"
presented by Georg Gläser, Insitut fur Mikroelektronik und Mechatronik Systeme gemeinnutzige.
2016: Lisbon, Portugal (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2016 awarded tools were:
"SCALES: A High Speed Simulator Tool for Pipeline A/D Converters,"
presented by Carlos Silva, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (Ex Aequo).
"SIDe-O: A Toolbox for Surrogate Inductor Design and Optimization,"
presented by Fábio Passos, Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (Ex Aequo).
"Safety-oriented Mixed-Signal Verification of Automotive Power Devices in a UVM Environment,"
presented by Sebastian Simon, Infineon Technologies AG, Munich,
"A Novel Polygon-Based Circuit Extraction Algorithm for Full Custom Designed MEMS Sensors,"
presented by Axel Hald, Automotive Electronics, Robert Bosch Reutlingen,
2015: Istanbul, Turkey (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2015 awarded tools were:
1.
"AIDA: Robust Layout-Aware Synthesis of Analog ICs including Sizing and Layout Generation,"
presented by Ricardo Martins, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Lisboa.
2.
"Automation of FPGA Performance Monitoring and Debugging Using IP-XACT and Graph-Grammars,"
presented by Munish Jassi, Institute for Electronic Design Automation Technische Universitat Munchen.
3.
"Radix-2r Arithmetic for FIR Filter Design Optimization,"
presented by Ahmed Liacha, Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées System Architecture and Multimedia Division, Algiers.
2012: Seville, Spain (sponsored by IEEE CEDA)
The 2012 awarded tools were:
1.
“UVM-based Verification of Smart-Sensor Systems,”
presented by Felix Neumann, Technical University of Ilmenau.
2.
“Systematic Generation of Performance Models of Reconfigurable Analog Circuits,”
presented by Manuel Velasco-Jimenez, University of Seville.
3.
“An efficient linear-time variant simulation technique of oscillator phase sensitivity function,”
presented by Federico Pepe, Politecnico di Milano (Ex Aequo).
3.
“An Automated Layout-Aware Design Flow,”
presented by Antonio Toro-Frías, University of Sevilla (Ex Aequo).
“AIDA: Automated Analog IC Design Flow from Circuit Level to Layout,”
presented by Nuno Lourenço, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Lisboa.