Verilab is proud to have senior consultant Jonathan Bromley host the “SystemVerilog Jinxed Half My Career” panel at DVCon 2017, on Wednesday March 1st. Jonathan continues to serve on the SystemVerilog IEEE committee and is the author of numerous papers, including the recently published “Slicing Through the UVM’s Red Tape”. We took a moment with Jonathan to preview what this panel will cover and what those planning or thinking of attending should expect.

The title is “SystemVerilog Jinxed Half My Career : Where do we go from here”, which signals this panel will focus on areas of improvement. What are those areas of frustration in SystemVerilog you feel need improvement?

It would be easy to give a “where do I start?” response, and it’s not difficult to come up with a laundry list of desirable SystemVerilog improvements and nit-picky complaints. But this is DVCon, and our very knowledgeable and sophisticated audience deserves better. We have five extraordinarily experienced panelists and I hope we can venture beyond details of the languages and tools we have today, and think creatively about what we can and should hope for in the mid-term future. Many languages have been used successfully to create advanced testbenches - ‘e’, C++, Python, Vlang - but there’s no question that SystemVerilog remains dominant. Why is that? What sort of code will verification engineers be writing in five, ten years’ time?
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