45th DAC WACI Call For Papers

Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) at DAC 2008
Submit a paper to the new WACI track at DAC and demonstrate your long-term vision! The WACI track will feature novel (and even unproven) technical ideas that create a buzz and get people talking. The aim of WACI is to promote revolutionary and way-out ideas that inspire and generate discussion among conference attendees.

How does a WACI paper differ from a regular submission? A typical DAC paper explores a specific technology problem and proposes a complete solution to it, with a full table of
results. In contrast, a WACI paper would present less developed, but highly innovative
ideas related to areas relevant to DAC.

What makes a WACI paper?

  • A description of a genuinely forward-looking, radical and innovative idea in the area
    of electronic design or electronic design automation. Controversy is good,
    incrementalism is bad.
  • A writeup of no more than two pages.
  • A logical exposition of the idea accompanied by insights or back-of-the-envelope calculations that show the promise of the proposed concept.
  • Fewer experimental results than a DAC paper – just enough to demonstrate a proof of concept of your idea! If you have complete results, you probably want to submit a regular paper.
Accepted papers will be published in the WACIpedia section of the proceedings.

Break the mold, shift the paradigm, and think outside the box. But do avoid clichés: we
are looking for true innovation!