Design Verification: The Past, Present, and Future

Sean Smith, Juniper Networks

Design Verification: The Past, Present, and Future

Dr. Carl Sagan once said "You have to know the past to understand the present." This session will start with review of the current state of design verification, beginning with an in-depth look at how we got to where we are today. Then using this baseline, we will address the challenges of verification engineers who face 100M gate ASIC designs, and beyond. In the context of increasing overall verification productivity, the presentation will address new and emerging solutions in various forms, including verification methodologies, EDA tools, and verification IP.

• Sean Smith is currently a verification engineer at Juniper Networks. Previously at Denali Software, Mr. Smith has acted as chief verification architect and director of field applications.
• Prior to his role at Denali Software, Mr. Smith was a verification engineer at Cisco Systems, where he led verification efforts on numerous systems, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and system-on-chips (SoCs) using a wide variety of verification techniques and technologies. These included directed random testing, assertion-based verification, and coverage-based verification.
• Mr. Smith is also an active contributor in industry-standards bodies including The SPIRIT Consortium, IEEE ,and Accellera. Mr. Smith received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from LSU.

DVClub membership is free and is open to all non-service provider semiconductor professionals. Most members work in verification, but there are also plenty of entrepreneurs, professors, students, managers, investors, and even design engineers who attend. Participation by service providers (solicitors) is limited to event sponsors, who supply the funds for DVClub events.

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