!!!     "It's not a BUG,                            
  /o o\  /  it's a FEATURE!"                                 (508) 429-4357
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  \ - /        The 2007 DeepChip Verification Census (Part 1 & 2)
  _] [_                           -or-
          A Census of 818 Engineers on Design Verification Tool Use

                             by John Cooley

( DVcon 07 Subjects ) -------------------------------------------- [ 04/24/07 ]

 Part I

 Item  1: Mindshare vs. Marketshare
 Item  2: Verilog vs. VHDL
 Item  3: Cadence NC-Sim, Synopsys VCS, Mentor ModelSim, Aldec
 Item  4: Atrenta Spyglass, Synopsys Leda, Cadence HAL, 0-In CheckList
 Item  5: Certess Certitude
 Item  6: Nusym "DeNibulator"
 Item  7: Novas Debussy & Verdi, Veritools UnderTow, DAI SignalScan
 Item  8: Cadence Verisity Specman "e" vs. Synopsys Vera
 Item  9: SystemC SCV and JEDA

 Part II

 Item 10: Mike Fister doubts this is statistically relevant
 Item 11: SystemC
 Item 12: System Verilog
 Item 13: IEEE PSL, System Verilog SVA, Verplex OVL/IAL, 0-In CheckerWare
 Item 14: Jasper, Synopsys Magellan, Mentor 0-In, Cadence IFV, IBM RuleBase
 Item 15: Magellan, 0-In, IFV/BlackTie, Jasper, RuleBase, Verix, Solidify

( DVcon 07 Jobs Section ) ---------------------------------------- [ 04/24/07 ]

   Job 1: West Coast, USA - EVE looking to hire numerous apps engineers
   Job 2: Los Gatos, CA - start-up Nusym seeks a senior apps engineer
   Job 3: Mountain View, CA - Jasper DA is looking to recruit a new CAE


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