Design and Verification Conference popularly known as
DVCON is beginning to flex its muscles and move out of Silicon Valley to reach
your friendly neighborhood this year. Yes, DVCON will be hosting the
conference at Bangalore, India and Munich, Germany in 2014 on top of the
already concluded conference at San Jose, California. This blog post is a quick
refresher about the event for fellow engineers who have been busy solving the
most intricate verification challenges in the trenches unknowingly that a platform
does exist to discuss those puzzles and hear out how the community is handling
them while sharing their solutions. It’s an avenue promoting collaboration among
the design and verification community without a bias for a particular tool, flow
or methodology. It’s a forum where everyone, a novice or a guru, a student or a
professional, a beginner or an expert come together to discuss the takeaways
that can be implemented as soon as they hit their work stations. It’s a place
where you learn, discuss, network, collaborate and connect.....and this time it’s
HERE (Bangalore & Munich)!
HISTORY of DVCON
It’s been 25 years in the spirit and 10 years to the name
for this conference. The origin can be traced back to late 80s when VHDL
started picking up; the user community started meeting twice a year under VUG (VHDL users group) leading to a
conference by the name VIUF (VHDL International User Forum).
Around the same time Verilog too gained user traction leading to IVC (International Verilog Conference) in early 90s. While the two
events continued to serve the respective communities, they joined hands in 1997
giving way to IVC/VIUF conference
later termed as HDLCon. Finally in 2003, HDLCon became DVCON
giving it a legacy of 25 years and a brand that continues to evolve for a
decade now. In 2014, it extends the reach to India and Europe.
DVCON India
ISCUG (Indian SystemC User’s Group) has been hosting an
event with focus to accelerate adoption of SystemC as an open source standard
for ESL design for past 2 years. This platform now morphs into DVCON India, a
2-day conference in Bangalore on Sept 25-26 2014 running Design Verification and
ESL track in parallel. In words of the committee,
DVCon India is an attempt to bring a vendor-neutral international Design and
Verification conference closer to home for the benefit of the broader
engineering community. An excellent platform to share knowledge, experience and
best practices covering ESL, Design & Verification for IP and SOC, VIP
development and Virtual Prototyping for Embedded Software development and
debug. The conference provides multiple opportunities to interact with industry
experts delivering keynote speeches, invited talks, tutorials, panel
discussions, technical paper presentations, poster sessions and exhibits from
ecosystem partners.
Call for abstracts – submission deadline JULY 21st,
2014.
Registrations soon to be opened.
DVCON Europe
A new chapter for the Design and Verification community
in Europe starts at Munich, Germany this year on Oct 14-15, 2014. The focus of
the conference would be on Electronic System Level (ESL), Verification &
Validation, Analog/Mixed-Signal, IP reuse, Design Automation, and Low Power
design and verification. To know more about what you’ll see at the conference
hear it in the words of Martin Barnasconi, General Chair DVCON Europe here.
Call for abstracts – submission deadline over.
Registrations – Open.
This new move from Accellera Systems Initiative opens up
opportunities for thousands of engineers who have benefited from the proceedings
of DVCON for a long time to get involved, contribute and learn for a better tomorrow.
As Benjamin Franklin rightly said,
Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
An excellent opportunity for all of us to get involved
& learn!
