CADathlon 2010: International Graduate Student Progg. Contest in EDA

请为参加CADathlon比赛的美国学生提供有限的资金支持。CADathlon是一年一度的研究生编程比赛，与每年在加利福尼亚州圣何塞举行的ICCAD(国际计算机辅助设计会议)会议一起举行。竞赛题目选自电子设计自动化(EDA)领域，由来自学术界和工业界的EDA专家提出。该竞赛面向所有攻读EDA学位的研究生。CADathlon成立于2002年，每年吸引来自世界各地大学的15-20支队伍。在到目前为止举行的8场CADathlon比赛中，来自26所美国大学和10所外国大学的一支或多支研究生队伍参加了比赛。优胜队和亚军队将获得现金奖励。在这项提案中，我们寻求国家科学基金会的支持，以支付2010年CADathlon比赛的部分费用。CADathlon是一种吸引擅长解决问题的学生到EDA领域的工具。CADathlon直接鼓励参与者对EDA/CAD领域的关键问题进行更深入的研究和理解。因此，它是鼓励年轻研究人员攻读研究生学位和为在这些领域的研究事业奠定基础的宝贵资源。

Funds are requested to provide limted support to US based students to participate in CADathlon contest. CADathlon is an annual graduate student programming contest held in conjunction with the ICCAD (International Conference on Computer-Aided Design) conference held annually in SanJose, California. The contest problems are chosen from the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) field and are posed by EDA experts from academia and industry. The contest is open to all graduate students pursuing their degrees in EDA.CADathlon was started in 2002 and every year attracts 15-20 teams from universities all over the world. In the eight CADathlon contests held so far, one or more graduate student teams from 26 US and 10 foreign universities have competed. The winning and runner-up teams are awarded cash prizes. In this proposal, we seek NSF support to partially cover the expenses of 2010 CADathlon contest.CADathlon is a vehicle to attract students who are good at problem solving to the EDA area. CADathlon directly encourages a deeper study and understanding of critical problems in the EDA/CAD field for the participants. As such, it is an invaluable resource for encouraging young researchers to pursue graduate degrees and for laying the foundations of a career in research in these areas.