Tau Contest 2018

Resources

Resources

This page will contain relevant documents and source files pertaining to the contest. Contest documents will be updated as necessary.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Contest Documents

Please start with contest_rules.pdf, as that provides you with the high-level introduction to the contest problem. The other two documents -- contest_education.pdf and contest_file_formats.pdf -- are intended as supplementary (and necessary) references to aid you during the research and development portion of the contest.

Contest Overview

Contest Rules

Contest Education

Contest File Formats

Final Results


Benchmarks

The designs here are intended for you to use during development and testing. We will update this section as new revisions are available.

  • testcases_v1.0.tar.gz
  • testcases_v1.1.tar.gz -- includes example command file ($design_run.tcl and $design_cmd.tcl) for most testcases.
  • testcases_v1.2.tar.gz -- includes *_Constant.lib files which will be used for delay-independent comparison of timing engines.
  • testcases_v1.3.tar.gz-- updated the testcase data to better conform with the format documentation.
  • aux_v1.0.tar.gz -- auxiliary dataset which contains vga_lcd reference results.
  • aux_v1.1.tar.gz -- update to auxiliary dataset -- included input pins in the path, and changed begin-point to clock pin of launching register.
  • testcases_v1.4.tar.gz -- updated *_Constant.lib files so that load axis is 10x larger, to avoid extrapolation due to large load nets.
  • aux_v1.2.tar.gz -- Updated reference results to match the clock period of 100ps in the *.timing constraints.
  • benchmarking_v1.0p.tar.gz -- testcases used for benchmarking the contest entries (prelim version)
  • benchmarking_v1.1p.tar.gz-- testcases used for benchmarking the contest entries (final version, includes the *.ops files)