ECOS Team Won the EDAthon 2025 Competition Champion and Thrid Place!

The EDAthon 2025 programming competition, organized by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), Cadence, UniVista, and others, was held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. ECOS Team and a total of 21 teams from universities including Peking University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology took part in the competition. After six hours of intense competition, the team of Chaoyu Xing and Xurong Shen from ECOS Team, under the guidance of Teacher Xie Biwei, stood out among many competitors and won the championship of EDAthon 2025! At the same time, the team of Qingling Zhang and Qinhan Zhang from ECOS Team also won the third place in the competition!

EDAthon is a whole-day programming contest (09:00-15:00 programming, 15:30-17:00 seminar) that features interesting and challenging topics in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). This year's event was organized by Dr. Xie Zhiyao from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It is also a unique opportunity to bring together talents for EDA, which enables the rapid advancement in computer technology. The contest involves solving interesting problems in the broad context of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of integrated circuits and systems. It emphasizes teamwork, problem-solving skills, and programming techniques for EDA applications. It is a goal of EDAthon and CEDA HK to promote EDA in Hong Kong and its neighboring regions, and to nurture the best of the next-generation students and professionals for the EDA community.