March 16-19, 2025
Holiday Inn Austin Midtown, Austin, Texas

General Information

The International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) provides a premier forum to exchange ideas and promote innovative research in all aspects of physical design ranging from traditional topics for ASIC and FPGA designs to emerging technologies that impact physical design of integrated circuits (ICs). In 2025, ISPD was held at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown in Austin, Texas. The 34th symposium has highlighted key new directions and leading-edge theoretical and experimental contributions to the field.

ISPD 2026 will be held in Bonn, Germany. See you all in Germany next year!


ISPD 2025 Awards

Lifetime Achievement

  • Prof. Jason Cong

Best Paper

  • "Cypress: VLSI-Inspired PCB Placement with GPU Acceleration", Niansong Zhang, Anthony Agnesina, Noor Shbat, Yuval Leader, Zhiru Zhang and Haoxing Ren (Cornell University, Nvidia)

Contest Winners

  1. Hippo
    • Peking University: Chunyuan Zhao, Yibo Lin
  2. RL-Route
    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University: Liang Xiao, Qinkai Duan, Qinkai Duan, Leilei Jin, Jinwei Liu, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F.Y. Young
  3. It’s MyRoute!!!!!
    • Fudan University, Wuhan University, University of California San Diego: Chuyu Wang, Zecheng Xu, Boxiang Song, Zhiang Wang, Keren Zhu

Location

Holiday Inn Austin Midtown, Austin, Texas


Sponsors

Sponsor

ACM_SIGDA

Technical Sponsors

IEEE CEDA IEEE

Supporters




Gold

Cadence Siemens Synopsys

Silver

AMD nvidia MediaTek

Bronze

FutureWei