HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE:
*Overview of what to expect at DVCon provided by Steve Bailey
*Conference Program
*Three dimensions of Design and Verification provided by Gabe Moretti
*John Cooley looking for edgy questions for 2006 panelists
*DVCon Exhibitors

Technical Program Chair, Steve Bailey, comments on rich DVCon content

"I am glad to report that the interest in participating in DVCon has grown substantially. Clearly, DVCon is the industry's premier conference for design and verification of electronic systems. This year, we invited SPIRIT to participate in the program. I am pleased that they proposed an embedded tutorial for the conference. We have expanded the educational quality of the program through the addition of three embedded tutorials: SPIRIT XML, SystemVerilog DPI and VHDL floating and fixed point packages. We hope you find the combination of the embedded and sponsored tutorials valuable in deepening and expanding your design and verification skills. Technical paper submissions far exceeded expectations. And, the quality of the submissions were so high, that even after expanding the technical program to 3 tracks on Friday, the Technical Program Committee still could not find space for all highly qualified submissions. Hot areas for 2006 are system-level design and verification, SystemVerilog, and formal verification with assertion-based verification. I am excited that 2006 will see the best DVCon technical program yet offered! Thanks to all who are participating and I will see you in San Jose!"

Three dimensions of Design and Verification provided by Gabe Moretti EDA

EDA vendors support the design community on three fronts, or at least they should. They develop, sell, and support tools that enable designers to develop electronic circuits. Their companies implement the designs in various forms of ICs, or on printed circuit boards. In either case suppliers must continue to invest in research and development because designers continually face new challenges with every advance in technology. Training and consulting services is the second dimension EDA vendors must offer. Companies must integrate all new tools into their existing methods. To do this they must fully understand the requirements and capabilities of the tool and may have to modify their procedures in order to both accommodate the new tool as well as take full advantage of its functionality. The third dimension is less visible and unfortunately somewhat neglected by some EDA vendors: standards. The complex flow of design requires standards to support not only design reuse but also ease the integration of tools from various vendors. Accellera has distinguished itself as the most dynamic standard making consortium in the EDA industry since its founding. Its sponsorship of DVCon is one of its most visible acts toward providing the most productive design and verification environment for electronics engineers.

John Cooley to moderate "Bigwigs" panel

What are good, edgy questions I can ask these EDA guys?

• Rajeev Madhavan - CEO of Magma
• Antun Domic - GM of Implementation, Synopsys
• Joe Sawicki - GM of Design-to-Silicon, Mentor Graphics
• Ted Vucurevich - CTO of Cadence
• Atul Sharan - CEO of Clear Shape
• Kathryn Kranen - CEO of Jasper
• Brett Cline - The SystemC Poster Boy
• Gary Smith - Senior EDA Analyst, Gartner/Dataquest

The panel will be held Thursday, February 23 from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm.  

Free Exhibits and receptions at DVCon!   February 22-23, 2006

The Exhibition is open Wednesday, February 22 and Thursday, February 23 from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Participating exhibiting companies and consultants include:

Corporate Sponsors

The following companies have generously contributed to the conference

	Wednesday Tutorial / Wednesday & Thursday coffee breaks
	Conference Lanyards
	Wednesday Tutorial and Thursday Luncheon
	Wednesday Tutorials and Wednesday Cocktail Reception

DVCon is sponsored by Accellera, an industry consortium dedicated to the development and standardization of design and verification languages.  For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Sincerely,