TAU 2015 - TAU 2015 timing contest

The TAU 2015 timing contest is now officially open.*
Among timing analysis applications, timing-driven operations are imperative for the success of optimization flows, such as placement, routing, logic synthesis, and physical synthesis. Optimization transforms change the design, and therefore have the potential to significantly affect timing information. As such, timing must be kept current to ensure slack integrity and timing closure, and updating timing information quickly and accurately is crucial for reasonable turnaround time and performance. The goals of this year's TAU contest are:
increase awareness of incremental timing analysis;
create a framework where timing needs to be re-validated after a set of transforms on a design;
encourage incremental and multithreaded approaches;
introduce incremental common path pessimism removal (CPPR) analysis;
create an evaluation environment to measure the performance of incremental timing analysis with CPPR in terms of memory, runtime, and accuracy; and
facilitate a unified academic timing engine that can be used to perform timing analysis and enable timing-driven flows.