The Technical Program for the 2013 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon), sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, is now available online and registration is open (www.dvcon.org). DVCon 2013 will be held February 25 - 28 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. Now in its 25^th year, DVCon 2013 began as the VHDL Users Group in 1988 and has evolved to become the industry’s premier conference for the discussion of functional design and verification of electronic systems.

There will be 12 technical sessions, 10 tutorials, a poster session with more than 20 posters being presented, and 2 panels throughout the conference. The first panel, “Where Does Design End and Verification Begin?” will be held on Wednesday beginning at 8:30am in the Oak Ballroom. It will be moderated by Brian Hunter of Cavium, Inc. The Industry Leaders panel will also be held on Wednesday, beginning at 3:30pm in the Oak/Fir Ballroom. Poster sessions will be held on Tuesday from 10:30-11:30am. The DVCon Expo will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:30-6:30pm. For the complete schedule, including a list of sessions, topics and sponsored luncheons and events, visit www.dvcon.org.

“Since its inception as the VHDL Users Group, DVCon has evolved and gone through tremendous growth over the past 25 years to become the leading source for engineers looking to expand their knowledge and experience in the field of design and verification,” commented Stanley Krolikoski, Ph.D., DVCon 2013 General Chair. “Each year we have built upon the lessons from the past and weathered the changing economic climate to bring attendees a high quality, information-packed conference that will be beneficial and applicable to the challenges faced by them today.”

To hear more about the value of DVCon and specifics of the program for 2013, watch a brief video by Yatin Trivedi, DVCon Tutorial Chair: http://videos.accellera.org/roadtodvcon2013/indexpopup.html.

DVCon is the premier conference for discussion of the functional design and verification of electronic systems. DVCon is sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating design and verification standards required by systems, semiconductor, intellectual property (IP) and electronic design automation (EDA) companies. For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org. For more information about DVCon, please visit www.dvcon.org. Follow @dvcon on Twitter or to comment, please use #dvcon.