2024 Sponsored Lunches

Join Accellera for an informative luncheon focused on the efforts and direction of the Federated Simulation Standard Proposed Working Group (FSS PWG). The luncheon will begin with an update on Accellera working group activity from Chair Lu Dai, followed by the presentation of a Distinguished Service Award to a long-time friend of Accellera.

Mark Burton, the FSS PWG Vice Chair will then discuss the intent of the PWG and what attendees can look forward to from the potential standard.  He will be joined by Yury Bayda, Principal Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company, who will discuss how a Federated Simulation standard will be beneficial to Ford. The PWG was formed in September 2023 to identify industry interest in developing a standardized communication interface to enable interoperability of virtual modeling, simulation, and integration throughout the product lifecycle. The intent of this communication standard is to facilitate the creation of a distributed and orchestrated (“federated”) multi-domain simulation framework, compatible with and complementary to existing approaches used in different industries and sectors. We hope you’ll join us!

Many of us got involved in computing because programming was fun.  The advantages of computing seemed intuitive to us.  We truly believed that computing yields tremendous societal benefits; for example, the life-saving potential of driverless cars is enormous!  Recently, however, many technologists realized that computing is not a game--it is real--and it brings with it not only societal benefits, but also significant societal costs, such as labor polarization, disinformation, smart-phone addiction, and more.

A common reaction to this crisis is to label it as an "ethics crisis".

But corporations are driven by profits, not ethics, and machines are just machines.  Only people can be expected to act ethically. In this talk the speaker will discuss how technologists should behave ethically.

Companies in the semiconductor and systems industry are in a new, transformative design and verification cycle; driven by trends like the move from monolithic SoCs to chiplets, AI/ML and specialized accelerators, and end-product specific applications. There are very few markets that are immune to these transformational dynamics. And as the pace of change in design and verification continues to break current flows, the demands for new innovative tools, flows, and methodologies to support those changes increases exponentially. 

In this discussion, Ron Wilson, industry veteran, invites the panelists to address the challenges of transformation in the design, verification, and validation landscape, and provide insight into what lies ahead in 2024.