Come and join us at DVCon 2016 in San Jose, CA, from February 29^th - March 3^rd, 2016.

Verilab’s Vanessa Cooper is this year’s Panel Chair and this is what she has to say about the line-up for 2016:

We had a number of excellent panel submissions to consider this year, and selected two that I think are of particular importance and address issues our audience is concerned with right now. Both panels will be held on Wednesday, March 2.

The first panel, “Redefining ESL” will be moderated by Brian Bailey. They will attempt to define ESL verification, from tools to flows. As they discuss, “How or when can all the disparate pieces be brought together, or is that even necessary?” there will be plenty of angles to consider.

The second panel, “Emulation + Static Verification Will Replace Simulation” will be moderated by Jim Hogan of Vista Ventures. The panel will discuss where it sees the verification paradigm of the future and where it leaves RTL simulation. It promises to be a lively discussion!

Bringing together two distinct groups of experts, I think attendees will be pleased by the different discussions and varying points of view offered by both of panels. We look forward to seeing you at DVCon U.S.!

Mark Litterick will be presenting his paper, entitled “Full Flow Clock Domain Crossing - From Source to Si”,  in the Design and Modeling Approaches session at 9am on Tuesday March 1^st. This is the paper’s abstract:

Functional verification of clock domain crossing (CDC) signals is normally concluded on a register- transfer level (RTL) representation of the design. However, physical design implementation during the back-end pre-silicon stages of the flow, which turns the RTL into an optimized gate-level representation, can interfere with synchronizer operation or compromise the effectiveness of the synchronizers by eroding the mean time between failures (MTBF). This paper aims to enhance cross-discipline awareness by providing a comprehensive explanation of the problems that can arise in the physical implementation stages including a detailed analysis of timing intent for common synchronizer circuits.

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