DAC Writing Style

Use this while writing the body. DAC Research Manuscripts live inside a 6-page double-column budget (plus a references-only page), so the writing discipline is not "explain everything" but "prove one design-automation contribution, in the field's own QoR currency, in six dense pages." DAC reviewers are EDA experts under time pressure; they decide fast whether the paper has a real, measured advance.

The DAC first-page arc

Front-load the contribution. By the end of the first column-and-a-half a reviewer should know: