Awards

2025DVCon Europe Recipients

Best Engineering Paper

The Test Bench Factory: Building Verification Environments Faster, Better, Smarter 

Thorsten Dworzak, Infineon Technologies AG
Johannes Grinschgl, Infineon Technologies AG

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Simulation Time Federation using the Zenoh framework between SystemC's and QEMU

Mark Burton, Qualcomm
Mahmoud Kamel, Qualcomm
Alwalid Salama, Qualcomm

Best Research Paper

Minimally Intrusive Safety and Security Verification of Rust RTIC Applications

Pawel Dzialo, Luleå University of Technology
Ivar Jönsson, Grepit AB
Malte Munch, Luleå University of Technology
Erik Serrander, Grepit AB
Johan Eriksson, Grepit AB
Per Lindgren, Luleå University of Technology

General Chair's Favorite Presentation

Harnessing a Digital Twin for Personalized Type-1 Diabetes Care: A Model for Glucose Control and Insulin Administration 

Ammar Abdelghany, Cairo University
Asmaa Khaled, Cairo University
Nada Alfowey, Cairo University
Mohamed Hamed, Cairo University
Hanan Tawfik, Cairo University
Tamer Basha, Cairo University
Loai Ali, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Mohamed Abdelsalam, Siemens Digital Industries Software

2024DVCon Europe Recipients

Best Engineering Paper

Addressing Fixed-Point Format Issues in FPGA Prototyping with an Open-Source Framework

Vishal Chovatiya, Infineon Technologies
Gabriel Rutsch, Infineon Technologies
Wolfgang Ecker, Infineon Technologies
 

Best Research Paper

Virtual Prototyping Framework for Pixel Detector Electronics in High Energy Physics

Francesco E. Brambilla, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Davide Ceresa, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Jashandeep Dhaliwal, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Stefano Esposito, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Kostas Kloukinas, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Jeffrey Prinzie, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 

Best Presentation

Formal RTL Sign-off with Abstract Models

Lucas Deutschmann, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau 
Osama Ayoub, LUBIS EDA 
Rohith Batthineni
Michael Schwarz
Tobias Ludwig, LUBIS EDA 
Dominik Stoffel
Wolfgang Kunz, Infineon Technologies AG 

2023DVCon Europe Recipients

Best Engineering Paper

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The Three Body Problem: There’s more to building Silicon than what EDA tools currently help with

Peter Birch 
VyperCore

Ben Marshall
PQShield

Best Research Paper

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Clock Tree Design Considerations in The Presence of Asymmetric Transistor Aging

Prof. Dr. Freddy Gabbay PhD
Ruppin Academic Center, Israel

Firas Ramadan & Majd Ganaiem
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

2022DVCon Europe Recipients

Best Paper

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A Generic Configurable Error Injection Agent for On-Chip Memories

Anil Deshpande, Niharika Sachdeva, Arjun Suresh Kumar,  Damandeep Saini, Ravi Teja Gopagiri, and Somasunder KS
Samsung Semiconductor India R & D Centre(SSIR)

Jaechul Park
Samsung Electronics, Korea

Best Poster

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A Novel Approach to Expedite Verification Cycle using an Adaptive and Performance Optimized Simulator Independent Verification Platform Development

Harshal Kothari, Vinay Swargam, Sriram Kazhiyur, Sounderrajan
Somasunder, and Kattepura Sreenath

2021DVCon Europe Recipients

Best Paper

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Testbench Flexibility as a Foundation for Success

Ana Sanz Carretero,
Katherine Garden, and Wei Wei Cheong
Xilinx 

Best Poster

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An Analysis of Stimulus Techniques for Efficient Functional Coverage Closure

Caglayan Yalcin &
Aileen McCabe
Qualcomm 

 

2020DVCon Europe Recipients

Best Paper

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Clock Controller Unit Design Metrics: Area, Power, Software flexibility and Congestion Impacts at System Level

Michele Chilla & Leonardo Gobbi
Qualcomm

Best Poster

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Formal Verification Experiences: Silicon Bug Hunt with “Deep Sea Fishing”

Ping Yeung,  Mark Handover, and Abdel Ayari
Siemens