ISPD 2012 Discrete Gate Sizing Contest and Benchmark Suite

[Announcements] [Download Materials] [Contest Details] [ISPD-2012 Contest Benchmark and Results] [Contact Information] [Schedule] [Submission Information] [Evaluation and Ranking] [Supported Libraries] [Participating Teams] [Call for Participation]

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The "final" ISPD-2012 Benchmark Suite was released. Please look under the ISPD-2012 Contest Benchmark and Results section for more details.

The ISPD-2012 contest presentation with results was released.

The Benchmark release notes, Contest details, Evaluation code and metrics can be found in the Download Material section.

Please cite the following paper when you refer to these benchmarks in a publication:
M. M. Ozdal, C. Amin, A. Ayupov, S. Burns, G. Wilke, C. Zhuo, "The ISPD -2012 Discrete Cell Sizing Contest and Benchmark Suite", Proc. ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, pp. 161-164, 2012.

Thanks again for the participation in ISPD 2012 Discrete Gate Sizing Contest!

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Announcements

Call for Participation
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Start Date: October 10th, 2011
Registration Deadline: December 12th, 2011
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          More details can be found at CFP (pdf or txt).


Download Materials

Name Description Last Update
Final contest benchmark The benchmark tar ball for ISPD 2012 contest Mar. 28, 2012
Benchmark release notes The benchmark release information Mar. 28, 2012
Evaluation code The evaluation code Feb. 5, 2012
Evaluation code release note The release note of the evaluation code Jan. 29, 2012
Evaluation metric The evaluation metric information Jan. 29, 2012
Contest library release note The contest library release notes Jan. 8, 2012
Contest details The detailed description of the ISPD 2012 contest Dec. 27, 2011

*The most recently updated files are labeled in red.


Contest Details

The detailed description of the ISPD 2012 contest can be found in this file: ISPD_2012_Contest_Details.pdf. The file contains the information about: (1) submission information; (2) contest evaluation; (3) benchmark files & scripts; and (4) sizer/timer interaction. Teams are advised to read this file as it has important information regarding the benchmark suite and utility scripts.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.


ISPD-2012 Contest Benchmark and Results

ISPD-2012 Contest Presentation with Results: ISPD_2012_Contest_Results.pdf

Please cite the following paper when using the benchmarks:
M. M. Ozdal, C. Amin, A. Ayupov, S. Burns, G. Wilke, C. Zhuo, "The ISPD -2012 Discrete Cell Sizing Contest and Benchmark Suite", Proc. ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, pp. 161-164, 2012.

The ISPD 2012 Discrete Gate Sizing Contest uses realistic benchmarks to evaluate all the contest submissions. All benchmarks consist of the verilog netlist, constraint file, parasitics file and cell library. Please read ISPD_2012_Contest_Details.pdf for benchmarks details.

The final benchmarks and related parsers for the ISPD 2012 contest can be found here. The details about the benchmarks and changes can be found in the Contest library release note and Benchmark release notes.

*The earlier benchmark suite was released for contestants to test the algorithms and can be found here.


Contact Information


Schedule

Oct 10, 2011 Official start date. The sample benchmarks were released.
Dec 12, 2011 Registration deadline
Feb 2, 2012 Trial version submissions for compatibility test
Feb 16, 2012 Receive submissions from all teams
Mar 25-28, 2012 ISPD 2012, announce contest results

Submission Information

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.


Evaluation and Ranking

There will be two separate rankings.

There will be a hard runtime limit for each benchmark.

Quality metrics in order of importance:

The detailed order will be based on:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please download the latest version of the evaluation code. Original version does not update pin caps correctly when gates are sized.

Detailed ranking metric can be found at Evaluation_Metric.pdf. The evaluation program can be found here. Please read the release note for details. For any other questions please refer to ISPD_2012_Contest_Details.pdf.


Supported Libraries

Below is the list of C/C++ libraries are allowed and supported by the contest organizers, if you wish to use a library not listed below please contact contest organizers first. Supported libraries:


Participating Teams

Team Name Participating Team Team Members
NuTuner Northwestern University Li Li, Yinghai Lu, Peng Kang
HBLR University of Texas, Austin Subhendu Roy, Jagmohan Singh, David Z. Pan
National Chung Cheng University  National Chung Cheng University  Chih-Cheng Hsu, Shun-Ren Siao, Bo-Syun Jhang, Shu-Hung Lin, Jen-Hsiang Lee, Mark Po-Hung Lin
UFRGS-BRAZIL Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul   Gracieli Posser, Guilherme Flach, Tiago Reimann, Jozeanne Belomo, Marcelo Johann, Ricardo Reis
CUsizer The Chinese University of Hong Kong  Tao Huang, Wing-Kai Chow, Yuan Jiang, and Evangeline F. Y. Young
National Cheng Kung University Jiun-Li Lin, Shun-Ming Xu, Ching-Lun Lin, Ing-Chao Lin, Tsung-Yi Ho
PowerValve National Tsing Hua University, Missouri University of Science and Technology  Chi-Hsuan Lin, Chung-Han Chou, Kuan-Yu Lai, Rui-Xiang Xu, Yi-Chiao Chen, Yiyu Shi, Shih-Chieh Chang
Nizhny Novgorod State University Iosif Meerov, Kirill Kornyakov, Andrey Kamaev, Polina Rozenshtein, Boris Rozenshteyn, Ilya Lebedev, Lyubov Popova, Belyakov Aleksandr
eOPT New Mexico State University  Mustafa Aktan, Vishal Nawathe, Vojin Oklobdzija
SensOpt University of California, San Diego  Seokhyeong Kang
NTHU KHWL National Tsing Hua University Po-Yi Hsu, Yung-Shun Lin, Tien-Yu Kuo, Sheng-Kai Wu
NCTU CIA National Chiao-Tung University Chia-Ling(Lynn) Chang, Hsuan-Ming(Ryan) Huang, Hsuan-Wei(Hunta) Wang
NTUgs National Taiwan University Kuan-Hsien Ho, Po-Ya Hsu, Yu-Chen Chen, and Yao-Wen Chang
NCTU_CIA National Chiao-Tung University Lin-Sheng Yan, Xu-Jia Kang, Xu-Kai Hua, Zhang-Zhe Cheng
Team-SJ SoftJin Technologies Pvt Ltd Mukul C Dutt, Murali M Reddy,  Ambica Prasad
Gatekeeper National Chiao-Tung University Chuan-Yao Tan, Chang-Cheng Tsai, Chih-Long Chang, Hua-Yu Chang, Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Yao-Wen Chang
UIC Dart Lab University of Illinois at Chicago Ren Huan, Shantanu Dutt
Goldilocks University of Michigan Myung-Chul Kim, Jin Hu, Igor Markov

Call for Participation

 For the contest announcement and call for participation, please see pdf or txt.