Munich, Germany – 12th November 2021 - The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe), sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, has announced attendance data for the 2021 event, showing that registrations reaching a record high of 465, covering 149 organisations and 24 countries. The show featured a full Virtual Reality (VR) 3D world, modeled on a conference centre in Munich and incorporating a stage showing the keynotes, plus rooms with poster sessions. The main conference, using a web-based conferencing system, offered four keynote speakers, plus a strong technical program with 24 papers, 13 tutorials and two panels.
In addition, 13 poster presentations took place in the VR world and were well attended, opening up a wide range of networking opportunities. Mark Burton, Virtual Platform Chair, explained, “This year we really changed the way in which people could talk to each other at the ‘virtual conference’ and it was very gratifying to hear from fellow participants that they had never experienced such a rich virtual environment”.
Sumit Jha, General Chair of the DVCon Europe steering committee, commented, “We are proud to have achieved a record high number of registrations and, since networking is an important part of DVCon Europe, we are very happy that we’ve been able to continue to offer those opportunities over the last two years.”
The award for Best Paper went to Ana Sanz Carretero, Katherine Garden and Wei Wei Cheong from Xilinx for the paper entitled, “Testbench Flexibility as a Foundation for Success”.
Best Poster was won by Caglayan Yalcin and Aileen McCabe of Qualcomm, for “An Analysis of Stimulus Techniques for Efficient Functional Coverage Closure”.
The next DVCon Europe will be held on 6th and 7th December 2022, with SystemC Evolution Day on 8th, at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre.
ABOUT DVCON EUROPE
The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition in Europe (DVCon Europe) is the leading European event covering the application of languages, tools and intellectual property for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. Sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, and one of several DVCon events around the globe, DVCon Europe brings chip architects, design & verification engineers, and IP integrators the latest methodologies, techniques, applications and demonstrations for the practical use of EDA solutions for electronic design. For more details, visit www.dvcon-europe.org. Follow #dvconeurope on Twitter.
ABOUT ACCELLERA SYSTEMS INITIATIVE
Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera) is an independent, not-for profit organization, dedicated to create, support, promote and advance system-level design, modeling and verification standards for use by the worldwide electronics industry. The organization accelerates standards development and, as part of its ongoing partnership with the IEEE, its standards are contributed to the IEEE Standards Association for formal standardization and ongoing change control. For more information, please visit accellera.org. For membership information, please email Email Contact. Follow @accellera on Twitter or to comment, please use #accellera.
ACCELLERA GLOBAL SPONSORS: Cadence; Mentor, A Siemens Business; Synopsys
# # #
Accellera Systems Initiative and DVCon are trademarks of Accellera Systems Initiative Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
Editorial Contact:
Annette Bley
Annette Bley PR
Phone: +44 (0) 7973 801132
Email:
Email Contact
Barbara Benjamin
HighPointe Communications
(503) 209-2323
www.hipcom.com
