Accellera Systems Initiative Day Kicks off the 2013 Design and Verification Conference

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Electronic design community invited to learn, share, and network on the latest EDA and IP standards

NAPA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 24, 2013 — Accellera Systems Initiative, the 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, will host its annual Accellera Systems Initiative Day on Monday, February 25. The day-long event kicks off the 2013 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon 2013) and features in-depth tutorials from experts and users on the latest in electronic design and intellectual property standards. DVCon is the industry’s premiere conference for functional design and verification.

What/When/Where

Accellera Systems Initiative Day is February 25, 8:30am-4:30pm, and kicks-off DVCon 2013, to be held through February 28 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Find out more at http://www.accellera.org/news/events/dvcon_2013

Agenda

The day presents in-depth tutorials about the latest in EDA and IP standards such as UVM, UPF, SystemC and AMS being developed and implemented by today’s leading electronics companies. A town hall luncheon includes an open question and answer session with Accellera board members, as well as presentation of the annual Technical Excellence Award for outstanding achievement and contribution to Accellera standards.


8:30am - 12:00pm					Tutorial 1: Lessons from the Trenches: Migrating Legacy Verification Environments to UVM™

9:00am - 12:00pm					Tutorial 2: Increasing Productivity with SystemC in Complex System Design and Verification

12:00pm - 1:15pm					Town Hall Lunch and Technical Excellence Award Presentation

1:30pm - 4:30pm					Tutorial 3: Low Power Design, Verification, and Implementation with IEEE 1801™ UPF™

1:30pm - 4:30pm					Tutorial 4: User Experiences at the Forefront of Mixed-Signal Design and Verification

Registration

$85 per tutorial with online notes

$360 for tutorial package with online notes

Sponsors

Accellera Systems Initiative Day is sponsored by ARM, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, and Synopsys.

About DVCon 2013

Accellera is proud to sponsor DVCon, the industry’s premier conference and exhibition for functional design and verification. The conference is celebrating two milestones: the 10th anniversary of the conference under its current name and the 25th anniversary of its family of preceding conferences. This year’s conference includes 12 technical sessions, 10 tutorials, 26 posters, and two industry panels. A two-day exhibition features 30 companies in the EDA and IP ecosystem. DVCon is the industry’s go-to place to find out the latest information from the leading edge of technology, techniques, standards, and methods. Find out more at http://www.dvcon.org.

About Accellera Systems Initiative

Accellera provides design and verification standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA and IP standards that lower the cost to design commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are transferred to the IEEE standards body for formalization and ongoing change control. For more information about Accellera, visit http://www.accellera.org.

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Jill Jacobs, +1-408-505-6017
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