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 document of contest overview as it provides you with the high-level introduction to the contest problem. The other two documents -are intended as supplementary (and necessary) references to aid you during the research and development portion of the contest.

Contest Overview

• Tau_2020_contest_overview, v 1.0

Contest Rules

• TAU_2020_contest_rules.pdf, v1.3

Contest Education

• Introduction to Characterization
• Introduction to Circuit Simulator
• API guideline for Delay Calculator

Benchmarks

• Refer the code infrastructure of contest on Github at HERE
• Benchmarks used to score contest.
• Final Scoring Spreadsheet

References

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4555855 - on driver modeling

https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2008.4479698 - on interconnect delay modeling

Blog on comparison between NLDM & CCS

Good article on delay modeling

FreePDK of 45nm on Github