DAC Related Work

Position the paper against the EDA literature a DAC reviewer already knows. At six double-column pages, related work is not a survey — it is a delta statement: here is the best prior technique for this design task, here is precisely what it cannot do, here is what we add, measured in QoR. DAC reviewers are drawn from exactly the subcommittee whose prior work you are extending, so an incomplete or unfair positioning is caught immediately.

The EDA literature lanes

Cover the lanes your contribution touches; do not pad with distant ones: