Conference Reports: Recap of the 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

The 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) was held at Miraikan, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, on 21–24 January 2019. ASP-DAC is a high-quality, premium conference in the electronic design automation (EDA) area, like other sister conferences such as the Design Automation Conference (DAC); Design, Automation, & Test in Europe (DATE); the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD); and Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK). ASP-DAC started in 1995 and has continuously offered the opportunity to know the recent advanced technologies on IC chip design and design automation areas, as well as to enable communication between researchers and designers around Asia and the South Pacific regions. As the first event in Tokyo, 346 researchers from 22 countries gathered not only from Asia and the South Pacific region but also from North America and Europe.