By Doug Smith of Doulos

Conferences aren’t my favorite events to attend. They tend to be dominated by the big three EDA companies, and the messages are usually just a variation on what was said last year. However, there is always something useful to glean if you listen hard enough, and I think DVCon this year is no exception.

While DVCon is generally more of a verification conference, I found design related topics surprisingly absent. Cliff Cummings presented a good paper on using SystemVerilog’s unique, priority, and 1800-2009’s unique0 constructs, but other than that, everything centered on verification except for some brief discussion on C synthesis at a panel and the SystemC synthesizable subset at the OSCI tutorial session. Verification continues to dominate the industry’s focus as well as high-level modeling.

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