Saturday 3 December 2016

Mentors Graphics U2U Conference, Dec - 2 2016, Bangalore : Updates


Hi Readers,

  Attended Mentor Graphics User 2 User 2016 on Dec 2, Bangalore. Summarizing the same below

 U2U India got an outstanding response with houseful gathering of VLSI Engineers, Conference started  with Welcome speech by Ruchir Dixit, Technical Director,  on Congnitive shift to transformative Decisions - briefed on the adoption of new technologies , explained using some general examples as shown below.


 Figure 1: Ajay to Dhoni as wicket keeper for Indian cricket Team.


Later Walden Rhines, Chairman, given a keynote on Next wave of semiconductor Growth with actual data vs  predicted growth data  from previous years.


Industry keynote speech on "Make In India" is delivered by Kiron shah , MD , Velankani Group, he played a video which showed his achievements from last 9 months..from setting up plant to shipping etc..


Latter Attended sessions in Functional Verification Track. There were 8 papers in this session on Qformal, Veloce and QVIP etc..

We have presented 2 papers on Qformal from our company, I was co-author for one of the paper titled " Using Questa Formal Connect Flow to Improve Quality and Productivity".



  Figure 2:  U2U Slide 


We got an outstanding response from the audience, The full paper can be found in U2U archives shortly.

Link:  http://user2user.mentor.com/u2u-archives/


Conference provide lot of networking opportunities , met some old friends and made new friends as well, besides learning new technologies. wishing you to meet you again in next U2U - 2017.

Happy Reading..!


Thanks,
Vikas Billa