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A Matched Pair of Panels at DAC in Austin

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

In my previous post on Breker activities at the upcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Austin, I mentioned two verification panels. I’d like to dig a bit deeper on these two panels to encourage EDACafe reader to attend them and also mention a third of possible interest to verification engineers. As a member of this year’s DAC Pavilion Panel Committee, I have a vested interest in seeing a great turnout.

The two panels are:

“Organizational and Management Solutions to the Verification Crisis” pavilion panel to be held 1:30-2:30pm on Tuesday, June 4 in the DAC Pavilion Theater (Booth 509)
“Disruptive Verification Technologies: Can They Really Make a Difference?” technical panel to be held 9:00-10:30am on Wednesday, June 5 in Room 16AB

Although DAC has distinct committees for pavilion and technical panels, in practice these two groups work closely together to ensure a strong overall program. The two verification panels above were carefully coordinated so that they address complementary aspects of the “crisis” in which verification is taking up an ever-larger percentage of chip and system development time.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Step Right Up!

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

As I mentioned in my debut post, this blog will be a mix of technical information, industry commentaries, and updates on Breker and our team. This time I’d like to fill you in on some of the activities that have kept us busy so far in 2013. In the EDA industry, most of the major conferences and tradeshows occur in the first half of the year, while most of the sales happen in the second. That’s not coincidental. New products are introduced at the events, users generally evaluate them in mid-year, and Purchasing departments usually want to close deals before the end of the calendar year.

Accordingly, we at Breker have been very busy with a series of shows in 2013. The biggest event so far was the Design & Verification Conference and Exhibition, better known as DVCon. Held in the San Jose DoubleTree hotel, the focus has shifted over the years to verification, with very little emphasis on design. Perhaps that’s due to another local show called DesignCon about a month earlier. Breker was at DVCon in force, with a spiffy new booth graphic to explain our SoC verification flow.