Press Release
The 3rd Annual DVCon India Announces Best Paper Presentation and Best Poster Awards at another Successful Event It continues to be the industry’s premier conference for Electronic System Level Design and Functional Design and Verification
Bangalore – September 20, 2016 –The Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition India (DVCon India), sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, concluded on September 15th and 16th with 400+ delegates and a busy exhibit floor after a successful last two years.
Overall attendance, including exhibit-only and technical conference attendees, was nearly 440. The conference attracted exhibitors supporting the semiconductor ecosystem along with start- ups from India exhibiting for the first time.
The Award for Best Paper Presentation in the ESL track, as voted by conference attendees, went to Anand Patil, Maheshkumar Simpy, Leily Zafari, Michael Velten and Erkan Akbay from Infineon Technologies, for their presentation titled, “Infineon In-house IP Connectivity Platform.” The Best Paper Presentation in the DV track went to Ponnambalam Lakshmanan, Prashantkumar Ravindra, Rajarathinam Susaimanickam and Anilkumar TS from Analog Devices, Inc., for the paper titled, “Enhancing Transaction Based Acceleration Performance using efficient SCE-MI modelling.” In the poster category Gaurav Jain, Ranga Kadambi, Holger Busch and Kirankumar Bandlamudi from Infineon Technologies AG won the award for the poster titled “Methodology to combine Formal and fault simulator to measure safety metrics.”
“DVCon India has become a must-attend conference for the design and verification community, for sharing knowledge, networking, technical discussions and learning opportunities. DVCon India rightly promotes the 4 Cs: connect, contribute, collaborate and celebrate,” stated Gaurav Jalan, DVCon India General Chair. “From the exhibit floor to the panels, tutorials, papers and poster sessions, there are plenty of opportunities for practicing engineers to learn about new products and share ideas.
“The technical program and networking opportunities this year were remarkable,” commented Anupam Bakshi, DVCon India Promotion Chair. “Attendees have come to expect a high quality selection of papers and posters plus better networking, and we were able to deliver just that. We consistently receive more submissions than we can accept, so we pick the best of the best for our attendees. Despite the unfortunate events in Bangalore two days before the conference, it was remarkable that we had a good turn out and the event was a success by all counts.”
Highlights of the Week:
The two-day event was inaugurated with a traditional lamp-lighting ceremony and welcome remarks by Gaurav Jalan, General Chair of DVCon India 2016 and opened on day two by Prasanna Kesavan, Vice Chair of DVCon India 2016.
Dr. Walden Rhines, Chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics and Professor Kamakoti Veezhinathan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras delivered insightful keynotes on September 15th to a packed room of more than 375 attendees. Their speeches outlined the rising complexity and the challenges of design verification and the Make in India Initiative. The rest of the day continued with tutorials and panels from different companies.
Mr. Sushil Gupta, Group Director of Engineering in the Verification Group at Synopsys and Ms. Pamela Kumar - Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India, delivered inspirational keynotes on September 16th describing the SoC Design and Verification challenges and the Make in India Initiative of IoT for SMART CITIES. The rest of the day continued with sessions containing papers and posters from a wide range of companies.
The DVCon India Steering Committee values all feedback regarding the conference. Attendees have been given a survey and are requested to provide input on how to make DVCon India 2017 even better.
DVCon around the world: DVCon India 2017 will be held September 14 - September 15, 2017 in Bangalore, Karnataka. DVCon Europe 2016 will be held October 19-20 at the Holiday Inn Munich City Centre, Germany and DVCon US 2017 will be held February 27 – March 2, 2017 at the DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, California USA. DVCon China 2017 is kicking off for the first time and will be held on April 19th 2017 at Parkyard Hotel, Shanghai.
About DVCon
DVCon is the premier conference for discussion of the functional design and verification of electronic systems. DVCon is sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, an industry consortium dedicated to the development and standardization of design and verification languages. For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org. For more information about DVCon India, please visit www.dvcon-india.org. Follow @dvcon on Twitter or to comment, please use #dvcon.
Place: Bangalore, India Date: 20-Sep-16
For more information, please contact: Nannette Jordan Prasanna Kesavan MP Associates, Inc General Vice Chair, DVCon India 2016 +001-303-530-4562 +91-9945140156