Posts Tagged ‘UVM’
Thursday, October 12th, 2017
DVCon Europe 2017 will be in Munich next week, a great destination for tourists and technologists alike. This is the fourth year the conference will occur in Europe, the original Silicon Valley based version now in its 27th year.
DVCon Europe General Chair Oliver Bell and I spoke this week by phone about the upcoming event; he was in Germany and I was in Northern California. I offered that Munich is a beautiful city, and he agreed.
“The conference will be in downtown Munich,” Bell said, “at the Holiday Inn. This is a really nice hotel, located near to Marienplaz, and easily reachable from public transportation.”
Bell then laughed and acknowledged that, as famous as the city’s Oktoberfest may be, it’s better that DVCon is being held several weeks after that particular annual exuberance has run its course. The city’s just that much more calm and enjoyable, he noted, after the hundreds of thousands of Oktoberfest revelers have returned to their normal pursuits.
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Tags: 2017 DVCon Europe, Accellera, ARM, Audi, Berthold Hellenthal, Bosch Sensortec, Cadence, Horst Symanzik, Infineon, Intel, Martin Barnasconi, Mentor Graphics, Munich, Nokia, Oliver Bell, Rohde & Schwarz, STMicro, Synopsys, SystemC Evolution Day, Technical University of Munich, UVM
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
If you’re going to chair a conference, according to DVCon 2017 General Chair Dennis Brophy, don’t do any work. Instead just delegate, because if you’ve done that properly, the committees will craft a great program and a great gathering.
Hence, per Brophy, this year’s DVCon is going to be great. He’s done nothing, the committees have done everything, and their work has been inspired.
You must bring something to the effort, I insisted.
Brophy chuckled and deflected my question: “I’ll defer to Wally Rhines’ thesis: The learning curve definitely doesn’t stop, even though Moore’s Law is slowing. And there will be a lot of opportunity to learn this year at DVCon.
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Tags: Accellera, Dennis Brophy, DVCon 2017, IEEE 1800.2, SystemC, UVM
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Thursday, May 26th, 2016
Ten years ago, Rich Weber and Jamsheed Agahi surveyed an industry they knew well – they each had 10+ years’ involvement in the technology – and found no one was providing hardware/software interface solutions. So in February 2006, they founded a company to “provide good solutions to the industry” and got busy coding. They had their software up and running by DAC, held that year in San Francisco, were featured in the July 2006 issue of EETimes, and were working with their first customers by the end of the year.
Those early successes were an indication of the credibility of Semifore Inc. and a reflection of the singular vision of founders who knew each other well; they had worked with together at various companies prior to 2006, Data General, Silicon Graphics, StratumOne and Cisco Systems. Starting Semifore together was the logical next step in their collaborations. Now ten years on, both founders are still with the company
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Tags: Accellera, CoStar Design Director Platform, Design Automation Conference, Heart of Technology, IP-XACT, Jamsheed Agahi, Rich Weber, Semifore Inc., SPIRIT Consortium, SystemRDL, UVM
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Thursday, September 25th, 2014
Last week I had a chance to chat by phone with Accellera Chair Shishpal Rawat, and when I say chance that’s accurate. Rawat is so busy these days, it’s hard to believe he has time for any extraneous conversations. Not only does he have a full-time job at Intel, he has been chair of Accellera for four years and now is ramping up to take over the reins at CEDA at well.
Among other activities, both Accellera and CEDA sponsor several key conferences in the industry. Accellera is the primary sponsor of the Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon). I asked Shishpal about this year’s efforts to take DVCon on the road and how that dovetails with the changes he’s seen at Accellera over his years of leadership.
He said, “Without a doubt, the biggest change is the international outreach that we are now doing in our programs. DVCon will debut in Bangalore this month and will debut in Europe next month on October 14th and 15th in Munich. Expanding the conference this way has required a great deal of work on the part of local dedicated volunteers in both India and Europe, in addition to the efforts of our established corps of hardworking people. We expect a very big group of attendees at both of these shows, which adds to the work load for everyone involved.”
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Tags: Accellera, Cadence, CEDA, Dennis Brophy, DVCon, IEEE Standards, Intel, Jill Jacobs, Karen Pieper, Mentor Graphics, Shishpal Rawat, Synopsys, System Verilog AMS standard, SystemC, UPF, UVM, Verilog
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Wednesday, August 28th, 2013
Perfectly suited by nature to teaching, when affable Cliff Cummings steps up to conduct his Verilog course, the class is in for a treat. From the get-go, Cliff establishes a tone of respect, humor, and openness to questions of any kind. He encourages students to interrupt when they don’t understand, to stand up, sit down, resort to coffee and/or carbs, and in all ways to relax and enjoy the learning experience.
There’s something additional, however, that Cliff brings to his inspired task of teaching and that’s his decades of involvement with the Verilog language, its evolution, standards, and implementation. What Cliff Cummings doesn’t know about Verilog and SystemVerilog, isn’t worth knowing. Period.
This week, Cliff is teaching Verilog-2001 Design & Best Coding Practices in Silicon Valley – specifically, in the offices of EDA Direct – and I’ve been lucky enough to attend. Not being a Verilog expert, I approached the class with some trepidation, but found to my delight that I was not the only one among the 8 engineers in the room “new” to the language. We’re all engineers, but we’re not all Verilog designers and hence it’s a class perfectly suited to our skills, interests, and goals.
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Tags: Cliff Cummings, EDA Direct, IEEE Verilog standard 1364, OVM, Qualis, Stuart Sutherland, Sunburst Design, SystemVerilog, Tektronix, UVM, Verilog-2001, VHDL
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Now in its 25th year, DVCon is coming up in a couple of weeks in Silicon Valley. In terms of process nodes, 25 years is about twelve generations. In terms of dog years, it’s about four generations. In terms of the life of Stan Krolikoski, however, 25 years is only part of one career. It’s also the amount of time Stan’s been going to DVCon, even though it had a different name when he attended the first such conference back in 1988.
When I spoke with Stan by phone earlier this week, I asked if he’s been to every single conference since then. He laughed and said, “Absolutely! Looking back to 1988 – despite all of the mergers, and the coming together of various conferences, and the end of the HDL wars – I’ve been to every one of them!”
There’s nobody else who’s been to them all? Stan laughed again, “I don’t think so. They’ve either retired, or left the industry. Although I do think Dennis Brophy has been coming for a long time, but probably not all the way back to the beginning.”
Where was the first conference held in 1988? Stan said, “It was in Newport Beach. Why? Who knows. Back in the day, a number of meetings were held in Newport Beach. Maybe it was a destination, or maybe it was because there were a lot of defense contractors in the area. Remember that VHDL-87 had just come out and the language had a connection to the Department of Defense.”
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Tags: Accellera Systems Initiative, DVCon, Graham Bell, HDL, HDLCon, IVC/VIUF, JL Gray, Karen Bartelson, Stan Krolikoski, SystemC, SystemVerilog, UPF, UVM, Verilog, VHDL, Wally Rhines
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
Here’s your February Pop Quiz.
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1 – DVCon 2012 starts on February 27th. The conference was first held in _____.
a) 1989
b) 1995
c) 1998
d) 2003
2 – The IEEE Standards Association [IEEE-SA] oversees approximately _____ standards and _____ standards under development.
a) 500, 900
b) 800, 600
c) 900, 500
d) 700, 900
3 – The IEEE Standard associated with VHDL is _____.
a) IEEE Std 1064
b) IEEE Std 1076
c) IEEE Std 1164
d) IEEE Std 1176
4 – Accellera merged with _____ in 2011.
a) VSIA
b) OSCI
c) OCP-IP
d) OVI
5 – DVCon is managed by MP Associates, the same group that manages _____.
a) ICCAD
b) DesignCon
c) Semicon
d) ISQED
6 – The 2007 General Chair of DVCon was _____.
a) Tom Fitzpatrick
b) Stephen Bailey
c) Shankar Hemmady
d) Gabe Moretti
7 – SystemVerilog was donated to Accellera in _____.
a) 2000
b) 2001
c) 2002
d) 2003
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Tags: Aart de Geus, Accellera, Andrew Piziali, Brett Cline, Brian Bailey, Cadence, Cliff Cummings, CPF, DVCon, Gabe Moretti, Gary Smith, Grant Martin, IEEE Standards, JL Gray, John Cooley, Karen Bartleson, Kathryn Kranen, Magma, Mentor, MP Associates, OSCI, OVI, OVM, Paul McLellan, Rajeev Madhavan, Richard Goering, Synopsys, SystemC, SystemVerilog, Ted Vucurevich, UPF, UVM, Verilab, Verilog, VHDL, VHDL International, Wally Rhines
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