Verification Academy: The Place to Meet at DAC

For all things verification, you will want to stop by the Verification Academy booth #2408 at DAC to interact with experts exploring the challenges of IC design and verification.  At the top of each hour, the Verification Academy will feature a presentation followed by a lively conversation.  Presentations will not be repeated so each hour will be unique.

We have themed each of the days as well:

• Monday is “Debug Day”
• Tuesday is “Standards & FPGA Day”
• Wednesday is “Formal Verification Day”

Naturally, you will find a few exceptions to those rules when you look at the program in detail.  Please register for Verification Academy sessions here: Monday Registration | Tuesday Registration | Wednesday Registration.  [NOTE: the Verification Academy sessions are highlighted with a blue background when you visit the registration site.]  A concise listing of all the Verification Academy sessions can be found here.

We will feature an end of the day reception on Monday at the Verification Academy booth after the last presentation.  Neil Johnson (XtremeEDA) and Mentor’s Harry Foster will explore Agile Evolution in SoC Verification in that last session.  The session begins at 5pm.  Neil is a proponent of this methodology as a means to to help build in design quality and simplify the task of verification.  In addition to being an advocate for this, he is also a practitioner of it.  He is an open-source hardware developer and Moderator at www.AgileSoC.com.  We think the conversation that follows this informative session will be a lively one in which we invite everyone to continue over cocktails and hor d’oeuvres at 5:30pm.

We are sponsoring other events outside of the Verification Academy as well.  Tuesday is truly “Standards Day” at DAC.  In addition to the standards theme at the Verification Academy booth, you can kick off the day at the Accellera Breakfast and later in the day attend the IEEE DASC, Accellera and Si2 System Level Low Power Workshop.  Here is a partial list of Standards Day activities:

• Accellera Breakfast: Design & Verification Standards in the Era of IoT
  Tuesday, June 9, 2015
  7:30am – 9:00am
  Moscone Center, Room 2201
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• Verification Academy Booth: Standards Day
  Tuesday, June 9, 2015
  9:00am – 7:00pm
  Exhibit Floor: Booth #2408
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• System Level Power Workshop: What You Need to Know
  Tuesday, June 9, 2015
  1:15pm – 4:30pm
  Moscone Center, Room 206
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• SKY TALKS: Trends in Functional Verification: A 2014 Industry Study
  Speaker: Harry Foster
  Tuesday, June 9, 2015
  3:30pm – 4:00pm
  Exhibit Floor: Booth 311
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Registration

If you have not yet registered for DAC, do so now.  If you do not have plans to register for the full technical conference, many conference events are fee free if you select the “I LOVE DAC” registration option before May 19th!  In fact, all the “Standards Day” events listed above are free with early I Love DAC registration. Simply click here and you will be taken to the “I Love DAC” location to register.  Register before May 19th as after that date a $95 minimum fee sets in.

See you at DAC!