The first DVClub “Lunch Around” of 2009 was held yesterday at Jasper’s restaurant in the Domain. “These events are a change from our normal speaker event with 175+ people”, said organizer Eric Hennenhoefer. “Instead we have a series of round-table discussions with about 30 people per event.  This makes it easier share ideas and get to know people better, it’s good to mix it up once a year”.

This year we returned to Jasper’s for two events in North Austin – two more will be held in South Austin at Texas Land and Cattle.  This series is supported in part with the ongoing support of Cadence, Obsidian and Doulos.  Doulos also threw in a few Golden Reference Guides as light reading during dessert.

Among the four tables, discussions were lively and crossed broad number of topics. One table chose to focus on the business side of verification, talking about the fate of Freescale, the changing role of businesses in China, and speculations on the economy. Other tables were more technical in their discussions, concentrating on trends in SoC verification, challenges of verifying floating point units in CPUs, exhaustive simulation and FPGA prototyping. Each table was comprised of five verification engineers with a total of twenty in attendance.

The DVClub “Lunch Arounds” will continue throughout the month of October and will be held once more at Jasper’s on October 22nd. If you’re interested in attending, contact molly@dvclub.org to make arrangements.

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