Use when designing or auditing the empirical evaluation of an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering standard EDA benchmark suites (ISPD, EPFL, ISCAS/ITC, TAU, CircuitNet, OpenROAD flows), fair state-of-the-art baselines, QoR/PPA reporting with runtime, per-benchmark honesty, ablations that isolate the mechanism, and contamination-aware ML-for-EDA evaluation.
