The Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon U.S.) has officially opened its call for technical contributions for its 39th annual edition, scheduled for March 1–4, 2027 at the Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, California. Engineers, researchers, and industry practitioners working in chip design and verification are invited to submit proposals across three formats: extended abstracts, tutorials, and sponsored workshops.
DVCon is the electronics industry's primary gathering focused specifically on the functional design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. It is sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative the independent standards body behind widely used industry languages and methodologies including SystemVerilog, SystemC, and Portable Stimulus. For professionals working in EDA, semiconductor IP, SoC design, or hardware verification, DVCon is where methodologies get shared, debated, and adopted across the industry.
The conference is specifically seeking content that is practical, technically deep, and grounded in real engineering experience. The overarching theme this year reflects the industry's current reality: AI is reshaping design complexity and engineering workflows, and the community needs proven practices to keep pace. Three submission formats are available:
Extended Abstracts (600–1,200 words) should describe innovative methodologies, tools, or real-world verification experiences. Priority topic areas include functional verification, safety-critical design, low-power techniques, AI and machine learning applications in design flows, and mixed-signal verification. FPGA-based design, hardware-software co-verification, assertion-based verification, and open-source approaches are also welcome.
Technical Tutorials are three-hour deep-dive sessions included with full conference registration. The bar is high attendees expect strong technical depth, practical applicability, and real-world examples. Topics can span SystemVerilog, SystemC, formal verification methods, high-level synthesis, embedded software verification, functional safety, and verification automation, among others.
Sponsored Short Workshops are 90-minute sessions held Monday and Thursday, open to all full-conference attendees. These can be delivered in lecture or hands-on format, giving presenters flexibility in how they engage the audience. Pricing information is available through the submission guidelines.
The submission portal opens July 15, 2026, and all proposals, abstracts, tutorials, and workshops must be submitted by September 7, 2026.
