ICCAD-2016 CAD contest in pattern classification for integrated circuit design space analysis and benchmark suite

Layout pattern classification has been utilized in recent years in integrated circuit design towards various goals such as design space analysis, design rule generation, and systematic yield optimization. There is a need for open source or academic solutions as very limited vendors are available to provide this functionality. Speed and accuracy are key aspects to target in the solutions. Given a circuit layout and various markers, contestants are asked to provide a reduced set of representative layout clips around these markers. Each such representative clip identifies a class and has an associated set of one or more unique layout markers.