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Make an Impact and Get Involved in Standards Development and Evolution

Thursday, March 12th, 2020

Semiconductor design and verification professionals use a variety of languages to model and verify their new ideas in this exciting era of 5G, AI, IoT and autonomous vehicles. Taking a step back, it’s important to understand where these design and verification languages came from, because in the early days of IC and system design there were multiple proprietary languages in circulation. Consider some of the following early languages and simulators used to describe and simulate IC designs:

  • Tegas Design Language (Tegas, 1972)
  • ABEL (Data I/O, 1983)
  • MOSSIM (California Institute of Technology, 1984)
  • Verilog (Gateway Design Automation, 1985)
  • LSim (Silicon Design Labs, 1986)
  • COSMOS (1987)
  • IRSIM (1989)
  • TRANALYZE (1991)

Starting in the 1980s, we began to see two simulation languages take hold commercially: VHDL and Verilog. As the industry adopted standard languages, the task of moving your ASIC design from one foundry to another became much easier, especially as logic synthesis tools like Design Compiler from Synopsys were gradually adopted.

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DVCon U.S. – The Industry’s Must-Attend Design and Verification Conference

Thursday, January 30th, 2020

The DVCon U.S. 2020 conference and exhibition promises to provide the attendees with outstanding technical sessions and discussions on many hot topics, practical learning, networking and an opportunity to preview the latest industry design and verification tools and services from the best in the industry.  We are proud of continuing our tradition of providing an annual technical forum that serves the needs of the design and verification community, organized by dedicated volunteers from the community itself.

Now in its 32nd year, DVCon U.S. has established itself as the must-attend industry and user-focused conference for practicing design and verification engineers, EDA developers and design managers, focusing on design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. We are proud that this conference attracts wide participation from the industry from the smaller to the larger companies in the full program and exhibition. We are also pleased that the success of DVCon U.S. and its format has spawned successful local DVCon events worldwide in Europe, China and India to meet the local needs of these regions.
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DVCon U.S. 2019

Thursday, February 7th, 2019

We hope you will join us for an exciting DVCon U.S. 2019! It is truly a privilege to present the DVCon conference and exhibition that will provide a tremendous opportunity for attendees to survey and learn the latest in design and verification technologies, methodologies, and tools from the best in the industry.

Now in its 31st year, DVCon has established itself over the past three decades as the must-attend industry-focused conference for practicing design and verification engineers, EDA developers, and design managers. We are very proud of our long-standing tradition of providing a very technical forum where colleagues can share practical knowledge. It is an opportunity to discuss challenges and solutions that can be beneficial in your current and upcoming projects, as electronic designs and verification complexities and challenges continue to grow at a rapid pace.
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DVCon – Bigger and Better!

Friday, January 19th, 2018

Bigger and Better applies to DVCon U.S. 2018, but the fact is the electronic systems you design and verify grow bigger and better every year as well.  It is no accident that DVCon U.S. has grown, too to keep pace with you!   I am happy to share many of the details of additions we have made to DVCon U.S. to add topics of importance that are motivated by the designs you are working on today and the systems you are creating for tomorrow.  We have been with you at the start of the smartphone, PC and tablet era and are with you now as new huge market potentials are on the horizon for the Internet of Things (IoT), wearable systems and intelligent embedded systems that are on a path to support fully autonomous vehicles.

From Humble Beginnings

We have seen a lot together as DVCon U.S. celebrates its 30th birthday milestone this year!  The first VHDL Users Group meeting was held at the 1988 Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA USA during a birds-of-a-feather session.  From there it has grown to be known as DVCon now being held in the United States, Europe, India and China.  After that 1988 meeting, VHDL was joined by Verilog with promotion arms created for both languages.  A language war was presided over and peace in a bilingual/multilingual world was embraced.  From a small start, a panoply of DVCons now reach thousands of practicing design and verification engineers around the world annually.  It is humbling to be part of this growth and success and even more humbling to help all design and verification engineers be that much more productive and successful.

Having been in the industry in 1988, I do recall the planning that went into the 1988 meeting, but, personally, I have no memory of attending it.  If you were there in the beginning or perhaps “not yet born” or “barely out of diapers” as would be the case with younger attendees, I can assure you that this event continues to bring users together to raise awareness of design and verification challenges and share solutions from fellow engineers and tool suppliers.  It is this exchange of information that brings attendees back year after year.  DVCon U.S. 2018 is a highly informative and educational event we hope you will attend.

Conference Highlights

As General Chair, I am privileged to represent the work of the Steering Committee and Technical Program Committee members.   They do most of the work to form the conference content with help from our conference management company, MP Associates.  The following are highlights for this year.

Keynote: Christopher Tice, vice president of Verification Continuum Solutions in the Verification Group at Synopsys will deliver this year’s keynote, “Industry’s Next Challenge: The Petacycle Challenge.”  This is the first time Mr. Tice will address DVCon.  Mr. Tice is a longstanding and respected industry executive who has a focus to drive solutions in fast-growing verticals such as automotive, networking and IoT.  Mr. Tice greatly complements this year’s program content and the future we look forward to creating.

Tutorials & Short Workshops: Of the four days of DVCon, the first and last day offer tutorials.  New for this year are Short Workshops on the fourth day.  The first day of tutorials is colloquially referred to as Accellera Day.   This year Accellera sponsors a morning and afternoon tutorial.  The morning tutorial will cover its emerging Portable Test and Stimulus standard and the afternoon will focus on the popular Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and the work Accellera has done to complete its IEEE-1800.2™-2017 (the IEEE name for UVM) compatible reference implementation.  On the fourth day of the conference, there will be six tutorials with a large focus in the afternoon on design and verification targeted at autonomous automobiles and the impact of functional safety requirements on those systems.  Are there any bets on when and who will be the first person to come to DVCon in a fully autonomous vehicle?

We added the Short Workshop concept to draw more topics to provide attendees more opportunities to join in discussions and learning exercises that would not be as long and comprehensive as full tutorials.  The four Short Workshops on Thursday include topics on Deep Learning for the Design & Verification Engineer, Formal Verification, Mutation Coverage for Advanced Bug Hunting and one that will seek to have the design and verification engineer focus on getting the job done without concern that underlying it all is formal technology.

Technical Papers and Posters: From novice to expert, you are covered.  Design and verification practitioners are set to cover popular topics in the formal paper presentation sessions and the ever popular poster sessions.  The topics covered include UVM, functional and formal verification, high-level synthesis, C/C++/SystemC, assertion based verification, Portable Stimulus, safety critical verification and ISO 26262 fault analysis, advances in low-power design and verification.  The RISC-V processor core even makes an appearance with a paper on its UVM-based verification model.  You will certainly find something in the program that will help in your daily design and verification activities.  You get to vote on best paper and poster awards to recognize the best-of DVCon.  Authors are greatly appreciative of the recognition.  This year we have shared some best practices for presenters on how they can deliver better presentations.  We hope this shows.  If this works, we may have made your job to discern the best paper and best poster just that much more difficult.

Panel Discussions: We have two panels this year, and both will be on the third day of the conference.  The first panel reflects the issue that has come with the advent of large designs: Big Data.  The more and more verification information that is generated, the harder it is to find root causes to problems or system flaws.  With so much information being generated, you may find it hard to attain the system coverage you seek.  The panel will be a good way for industry experts to explore this more.  The second panel will explore the right tool for the hardest verification jobs.  This reminds me of the old adage that says “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”  The good news for design and verification engineers is that there are many tools to choose from and the panel should help us understand which tool is best for which task.  And for both panels, we will be ready and open for questions from the floor.  This is your time to speak too!

Exhibits: We have just about every inch of exhibit space covered.  This makes for exciting social interactions after the conference program ends, during the evening receptions or during breaks.  It is a good venue for business meet-ups when the conference is in session.  You will find the latest in EDA tools, design and verification IP and services represented.  Armed with what you have learned in the conference setting, the exhibitors will be ready to share their advances that might help you with many of your pressing design and verification issues.  Whether you are in the exhibit area or connecting with peers at the hosted lunches, you will have many opportunities to network with your peers and learn from each other.

Thank You

On behalf of the DVCon U.S. 2018 Steering Committee and Technical Program Committee, I want to thank the hundreds, if not thousands of those who worked on or supported prior conferences from 1988 until today.  It is their hard work and dedication that sets the stage for all of us now.  I want to acknowledge the ongoing support of conference sponsors and Accellera Systems Initiative for their financial backing.

As you make your way to DVCon U.S. 2018, our conference “front door” is managed by MP Associates who has been the conference committee’s back office the past year to bring this full program to you.  I want to thank them for all their work as well.

With that, I look forward to seeing many returning faces and meeting new attendees.  I offer each and everyone one of you a hearty welcome to DVCon U.S. 2018!  Let’s come and learn, exchange ideas and advance design and verification together.

To register for DVCon U.S. 2018 visit here.  Advance registration is available through January 26th.

DVCon Europe: European Practicality With International Relevance

Friday, October 30th, 2015

On November 11th and 12th, DVCon Europe will once again take place in the lovely city of Munich. The inaugural event last year demonstrated a clear need for this event in Europe, with a focus on practical information that allowed the attendees to get a rapid, all-encompassing update on a broad range of design and verification techniques. Furthermore, it also showed the international audience those areas where Europe leads, influencing EDA development and thinking on a global basis.

This year’s show promises an even bigger and better program. It is expected to grow significantly, and indeed, early registrations, the size of the exhibit, and the number of papers and tutorials all bear this out. The theme of the conference, focused on the predominantly European automotive semiconductor segment, acts as a driver for next-generation design and verification across the entire industry, given the absolute reliability requirements of these devices. Subject areas, including system-level abstraction, analog/mixed-signal devices, UVM and other advanced verification, will all be discussed during a number of networking opportunities including a Gala dinner, included as part of the registration.
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Experience the DVContinuum

Friday, May 15th, 2015

What’s the DVContinuum?

For more than 25 years, DVCon is the premier conference to discuss challenges and achievements for Functional Design and Verification of Electronic Systems and Integrated Circuits. The DVContinuum includes the well-established DVCon United States in March, augmented with DVCon India in September and DVCon Europe in November (Munich, Nov 11 – 12, 2015).

For each region, DVCon provides a well-chosen mixture of technical paper sessions, tutorials, key notes, posters and exhibits. Sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, DVCon attendees get access to the latest information on various Accellera Standards and its application for system-level design, modelling and verification (including UVM, SystemC, SystemVerilog, IP-XACT and many more). The topics include system-level virtual prototyping, IP reuse, design automation, mixed-signal design, low power design and verification. Facilitating DVCon not only in the US but also in Asia and Europe allow networking and discussions in a much broader audience and expand DVCon’s value to wider community than those only who have the opportunity to travel to the US.

If you like to share your experience with the DVContinuum, submit your paper: DVCon Europe deadlines are May 11th for your draft paper and June 1st for your Tutorial submission. More info: http://dvcon-europe.org (India: http://dvcon-india.org/ US: http://dvcon.org/ )

The DVContinuum Anno 2015 – a Historic Perspective

As DVCon attendee, you will hear a lot about “shift left” and early verification of complex systems. This is not a new concept at all, even it may look like today. A very epic example for a historic shift left had been called out by John F Kennedy in May 1961: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” At that time, the required technologies and procedures for a moon landing did not even exist.

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