Welcome to the ASP-DAC 2024

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to invite all of the engineers on the LSI design and design automation areas to the 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2024). ASP-DAC 2024 will be held from January 22 (Mon.) to January 25 (Thur.), 2024 at Songdo Convention Center, Incheon, Korea.

ASP-DAC is a high-quality and premium conference on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) area like other sister conferences such as Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), and Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK). ASP-DAC started in 1995 and has continuously offered opportunity to know the recent advanced technologies on LSI design and design automation areas, and to communicate each other for researchers and designers around Asia and South Pacific regions.

The conference site is Songdo Convensia, which is an international convention center, and is located at Westside in Incheon, Korea. Songdo Convensia is close to central Seoul, about 40 minutes by bus, and Incheon International airport, about 20 minutes by bus. Joining the conference and participating in technological discussions, you can also enjoy many attractions in Seoul area, such as Gang-Nam (modern restaurants and K-pop), Myung-Dong (shopping), and Buk-Chon/Nam-Dae-Mon (traditional architecture and traditional food market), etc.

ASP-DAC 2024 received 482 submissions, which is ever the highest submission record, from all over the world. Based on rigorous and thorough reviews and a full-day face-to-face meeting by the Technical Program Committee in early September at Taiwan, 139 papers have been accepted and 36 technical sessions have been organized. Five Special Sessions have also been organized based on invited talks by the Technical Program Committee.

We have arranged four Keynote sessions at the beginning of each day to know the future directions of this area. The first keynote address in the morning on January 23 is ‘Advanced Technology and Design Enablement’ by Dr. Sei-Seung Yoon of Samsung Foundry, Korea. The second one in the morning on January 24 is ‘Present and Future Challenges of High Bandwidth Memory’ by Dr. Myeong-Jae Park of SK Hynix, Korea. The third keynote address during the banquet in the evening on January 24 is ‘ALM and EDA: Current Status and Prospectives on the Future’ by Prof. Andrew B. Kahng of University of California San Diego, USA. The fourth keynote address in the morning on January 25 is ‘Unleashing the Future of IC Design with AI Innovation’ by Dr. Erick Chao of Cadence Design Systems, Taiwan.

The Designers’ Forum is a unique program that will share design experience and solutions of actual product designs of the industries, which will be held in the afternoon of January 23 and 24. The topics discussed in this forum include Next Generation AI Semiconductor Design, Heterogeneous Integration and Chiplet Design, and AI/ML for Chip Design and EDA — Current Status and Future Perspectives from Diverse Views. Additionally, a joint short workshop of AI-EDA and Tilos projects in two-session format will be held in the last of the conference.

The University Design Contest is also an important annual event of ASP-DAC where 11 high-quality designs all including actual silicon proof were selected for presentation at Tuesday, January 23.

Eight tutorials have been arranged on Monday, January 22nd. Each tutorial has 3-hour presentation. Registrants can choose one topic from the morning session including 4 topics and another one from the afternoon session including 4 topics depending on their interests and can obtain wider perspective on the recent hot topics with the reduced tutorial fee.

ASP-DAC 2024 offers you an ideal opportunity to touch the recent technologies and the future directions on the LSI design and design automation areas. You will be able to meet and discuss with a lot of researchers and designers on this area, so please do not miss ASP-DAC 2024. Finally, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to authors, speakers, reviewers, session organizers, session chairs, sponsors, supporters, and committee members.