DVCon Europe 2023 was the 10^th event! We celebrated this with all the attendees, wrapped in a nice Anniversary Dinner including a true Pub quiz and Sing-Along-Songs.

On special request, we now publish the pub quiz and songbook online, in this very blog post.

The Pub quiz

Below the questions and answers (in bold underlined) of the famous Pub quiz. Did you know that the winning team managed to answer all the questions correctly?

1. When was the first DVCon Europe conference held?
   1. 2013
   2. 2014
   3. 2015

2. Where did the first DVCon Europe take place:
   1. Holiday Inn City Center
   2. Hilton Munich City
   3. Hilton Munich Park

3. Which co-located event was organized along with the first DVCon Europe Conference?
   1. Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL)
   2. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
   3. Design & Reuse Conference (D&R)

4. Which European event formed the basis to start DVCon Europe?
   1. The European Design & Verification Club
   2. The European SystemC User Group
   3. The European Design Automation Conference

5. In which city did the Design and Verification Conference start?
   1. San Diego
   2. San Francisco
   3. San Jose

6. What was the name of the conference before it became DVCon US?
   1. Accellera Verification conference
   2. Hardware Description Language Conference (HDLCon)
   3. Design Conference (DesignCon)

7. How many DVCon conferences are now organized globally?
   1. 4
   2. 5
   3. 6 (DVCon US, Europe, India, China, Japan, Taiwan)

8. What was the total number of attendees in 2022 to DVCon conferences globally?

1643

9. What is the official name of Accellera?
   1. Accellera Standardization Association
   2. Accellera Systems Initiative
   3. Just Accellera
10. Which organization did not merge with Accellera?
    1. Open SystemC Initiative
    2. The Spirit Consortium
    3. Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2)

11. Which year did the Open SystemC Initiative merge with Accellera?
    1. 2009
    2. 2011
    3. 2013

12. Which standard developed by Accellera does not have an IEEE standard label yet?
    1. SystemC Standard
    2. Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) Standard
    3. Portable Test and Stimulus Standard

13. The predecessor(s) of the Universal Verification Methodology is/are
    1. eRM/Specman
    2. OVM
    3. A combination of OVM, AVM, VMM, and eRM/specman

14. Which abbreviation of DPI does not belong in this list?
    1. Dot Per Inch
    2. Direct Programming Interface
    3. Digital Processor Interrupt

15. AOP stands for…
    1. Aspect Oriented Programming
    2. Abstract Object Programming
    3. Alternative Ordering Process

16. The UVM virtual interface is called virtual because..
    1. ..it is a virtual method in UVM
    2. ..it does not exist as physical interface but only references to the actual interface
    3. ..because it is an abstraction of the physical interface

17. When was the very first SystemC standard released
    1. 2000
    2. 2005
    3. 2011

18. What is the language the SystemC is based on
    1. Python
    2. C++
    3. SystemVerilog

19. ESL stands for…
    1. Electric Standard Language
    2. Electronic System Level
    3. Electrical Signal Loss

20. The most abstract modeling style when using Transaction Level Modeling is
    1. Cycle accurate modeling
    2. Approximately timed modeling
    3. Loosely timed modeling

The Sing-Along-Songs

DVCon Will Rock You

(Melody: We will rock you, by Queen, new lyrics by Jakob Engblom)

Buddy got a small team, big team
Trying to make chips, gonna be a success someday
You got bugs in your code, you big disgrace
Making mistakes all over the place, singing

Dee vee con will rock you, rock you
Dee vee con will rock you, rock you

Buddy you’re a young man, smart man
Getting all the tools, following a methodology,
There’s fewer bugs in your code, you’re shipping stuff,
Claiming your success all over the place, singing

Dee vee con will rock you, rock you, sing it!
Dee vee con will rock you, rock you

Buddy you’re an old man, wise man,
Keeping up to date, grasping all the new technology
You got a little time to learn it all
The smartest move is going to an industry event, singing

Dee vee con will rock you, rock you, sing it!
Dee vee con will rock you, rock you

Buddy you’re a sad man, mad man
Listenin’ to sales guy was a big mistake
You got stuck in a tool, the vendor gone,
Somebody should have forced some standards into your flow, singin’

We want, we want standards!
We want, we want standards!
Dee vee con will rock you!

Yesterday

(Melody: Yesterday, by the Beatles, new lyrics probably by Sunni Freyer)

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a milestone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong;
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data’s gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay;
Now I believe in yesterday.

What shall we do with the Drunken Coder

(Melody: Traditional)

::: What shall we do with the drunken coder? :::
Earlie in the morning?
::: Hoo-ray and up she rises :::
Earlie in the morning

::: Throw him in the long boat till he’s sober :::
Earlie in the morning…

::: Pull out the plug and wet him all over :::
Earlie in the morning…

::: Give him a hair of the dog that bit him :::
Earlie in the morning…

::: Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him :::
Earlie in the morning…

::: Heave him by the leg in a runnin’ bowlin’ :::
Earlie in the morning…