Sneak Preview of the Upcoming SoC Conference in Irvine

A notice about “early bird” registration for the 11th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit, and Workshops arrived in my inbox late last week. It reminded me that this event is coming up quickly (October 23-24) and that, among other things, I’d better get my slides done in time to make it into the Proceedings. My talk is called “The Search for a Truly Unified Verification Methodology” and it will be on the second day at 4:05pm.

If you look at the program, you’ll quickly see that this is one of the most diverse conferences of the year. A wide variety of experts from both academia and the commercial world considers SOC development from many different angles. One minute you may be listening to a talk on high-level system performance measurement, and the next on the silicon structures for a new type of on-chip memory array.

As I look over the talks for this year, I see some of the hottest topics around: FinFETs, software radios, FPGA security, 3D-IC technologies, etc. The most intriguing title is “Powering Wireless Devices from the Biologic Battery in the Inner-Ear” from UC-San Diego. I’m looking forward to hearing distinguished technologists holding forth on their latest areas of interest.

The conference is paired with a vendor exhibition, to be held on the first day from 3pm to 8pm. Breker is one of the event sponsors so a colleague and I will be there staffing our table-top exhibit and talking to folks about what we do. I’ve attended the SoC Conference in Irvine for several years now and have always found it enjoyable and thought-provoking. I cordially invite all of our blog readers to consider attending. You won’t be disappointed!

Tom A.

The truth is out there … sometimes it’s in a blog.

Tags: Breker, EDA, functional verification, Irvine, SoC Conference, SoC verification, verification methodology

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