Resources

All communication regarding the TAU 2013 contest (including contest registration) must be directed to tau.contest@gmail.com.

Please note that guidelines, benchmarks, and library data provided are subject to change. Contestants are requested to visit the page often to obtain the latest resources. All registered contestants would be informed of any updates via email.

The variation aware timing analysis contest at TAU 2013 is an extension of the deterministic timing analysis at PATMOS 2011. There are no changes to the benchmarks, but additional attributes have been added to the cell library format.

The winners of the PATMOS contest (NTU, Taiwan) have kindly agreed to make their tool source code public to serve as an optional tool development infrastructure. While TAU encourages use of this code to avoid re-writing parsers, it strongly recommends contestants to re-architect their tools to aim for a multi-threaded timer. Please note that the library parser will need to be updated to support new attributes for TAU 2013 contest (details in guidelines). The tool is provided as is, the original developers and TAU do not assume responsibility for any issues while using the tool.

Please contact the TAU contest committee for obtaining the tool.

A Perl parser for the benchmarks to visualize the interconnect resistance capacitance (RC) networks in the XVCG tool is provided only for fun, and is not needed for the contest. The tool is provided as is, the original developers and TAU do not assume responsibility for any issues while using the tool.