FAQ

This page will contain commonly asked questions that the contest organizers have received (questions can be paraphrased). We will update the contest documents as necessary. All submitters will remain anonymous.

Question: The verilog and .lib parsers from the ISPD contests seem to depend on comment keywords such as "Start PIs" and "Begin cell". Will all provided benchmark files contain these keywords?

Response:

Unfortunately, we cannot make this guarantee. The benchmark files we provide will be legal (though simplified) verilog/.lib/etc files, and this may or may not contain comments. We expect that your binary should be robust to consume any legal file that is specified within contest_file_formats.pdf. We would like to emphasize that the parsers are provided "as is" and they are intended for you to use as aids or references, and we do not intend on providing support for this code. So, please ensure that your parsers can handle files when comments are not present.