It’s hard to tell whether it’s been 30+ years or more since
the initial footsteps were taken towards this journey of verification. Whenever
or wherever it took off, the caravan continues to grow. For sure it has been an
exciting journey so far! The start of DVCON in India this year marks an
important milestone for the troops settled in different geographies and
connected with this common link we call Verification (Sid'dha-karana in the
local language hindi). As an acknowledgement towards the countless efforts by
each one in this journey and to celebrate the contributions of each
verification engineer towards silicon success, yours truly is presenting a talk
on Journey of Verification at DVCON India 2014 on Sept 25 in Bangalore.
The 2 day event touches all aspects of verification with
keynotes from industry luminaries, tutorials from subject matter gurus, invited
talks from domain leaders, best of the pick papers /posters, opportunity to
network with the who’s who and extended exhibition hours. In this mixed bag
covering all technical areas on system development and DV, I plan to share a
recap of everything around verification. The story starts off introducing the basic
ingredients of verification and peeps into the the
need for a verification engineer, verification team and an arsenal full of
tools.
After introducing the star cast, the story would move
touching areas like directed verification, constrained random, the language
wars, methodology wars, format wars and the conclusions on them. We quickly
review the IP verification of today, aspects of SoC verification and the trends
on where are we heading. The story winds up revisiting some myths that I come
across talking to verification engineers and managers as part of my job. I hope
this discussion would help you remember those nostalgic experiences, learn
something that was always considered implicit and absorb all of it with humour.
It is an attempt to present my 2 cents on this magical world
of Verification that gives us an opportunity to start out hunt for bugs
everyday and try out different arms in this quest. I hope to see you join us on
Sept 25-26 at Bangalore.
- If you haven’t yet registered for DVCON India 2014, here is
the link.
- If you are attending DVCON India, let’s meet!
- If you want to share your exciting moments in this journey of verification drop in a comment or email me. Everyone has a story to tell.... let’s share it here!
- If you are attending DVCON India, let’s meet!
- If you want to share your exciting moments in this journey of verification drop in a comment or email me. Everyone has a story to tell.... let’s share it here!
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