Munich, Germany – 13^th November 2024 - The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe), continues to grow.  The new research track, introduced in 2023, drew a high number of submissions and 50% more papers were presented.  DVCon Europe, held this year on 15^th and 16^th October, with SystemC Evolution Day on the 17^th, is hosted by Accellera Systems Initiative.

Program highlights included keynotes and presentations on AI, a strong selection of tutorials and a popular technical panel which covered AI and open source amongst other topics.

Mark Burton, the new General Chair of DVCon Europe, said, “DVCon Europe was as lively as ever this year. Our new-style technical panel really drilled down into details, and the keynotes gave us some real vision. Our first ever SystemC competition went well and the same high-level prizes will be offered next year.”

The Best Paper Award in the engineering category went to Vishal Chovatiya, Gabriel Rutsch and Wolfgang Ecker of Infineon Technologies for  ‘Addressing Fixed-Point Format Issues in FPGA Prototyping with an Open-Source Framework’:  while Francesco E Brambilla, Davide Ceresa, Jashandeep Dhaliwa, Stefano Esposito and Kostas Kloukinas of CERN, with Jeffrey Prinzie of KU Leuven, picked up Best Research Paper for ‘Virtual Prototyping Framework for Pixel Detector Electronics in High Energy Physics’.

‘Formal RTL Sign-off with Abstract Models’ received the Best Presentation Award (voted for by conference attendees).  Authors were Lucas Deutschmann (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau), Osama Ayoub and Tobias Ludwig (LUBIS EDA), Wolfgang Kunz (Infineon Technologies), with Rohith Batthineni, Michael Schwartz and Dominic Stoffel.

DVCon Europe 2025 will be held in Munich on 14^th and 15^th October, followed by SystemC Evolution Day on 16^th .

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. Hosted 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 X.

DVCon around the world:

• DVCon U.S. – February 24^th to 27^th 2025
• DVCon China – April 16^th, 2025
• DVCon Japan – August 20^th, 2025
• DVCon Taiwan – September 9^th, 2025
• DVCon India – September 10^th and 11^th, 2025
• DVcon Europe – October 14^th and 15^th, 2025

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; Siemens; Synopsys

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