It is typically held in March or April of each year, alternating between France and Germany.
[1][2] It is sponsored by the SIGDA of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Electronic System Design Alliance, the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA),[3] and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).
Technical co-sponsors include ACM SIGBED, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), IFIP, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
DATE is a combination of a technical conference and a small trade show.
It was formed in 1998 as a merger of EDAC, ETC, Euro-ASIC, and Euro-DAC.