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Bits&Chips Event

12 October 2023

Van der Valk Eindhoven-Best

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12 October 2023

Van der Valk Eindhoven-Best

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12 October 2023

Van der Valk Eindhoven-Best

Audience

The Bits&Chips Event brings together (technical) management, engineers and researchers in complex software and system development.

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Managing directors • Technical managers • Team leads • Project managers • System architects • Software architects • Software developers • Solution providers • Researchers • Technology innovators

Target industries

Aerospace • Agro & food • Automotive • Consumer electronics • Defense • Factory automation • Healthcare • Industrial systems • Logistics • Semicon

Past attendees

Alten • ASM • ASML • Bosch • Canon Production Printing • Capgemini Engineering • Demcon • ICT Group • Imec • Kulicke & Soffa • Lely • Lightyear • Nearfield Instruments • Neways • Nexperia • NXP • Philips • Priva • Prodrive • Signify • Sioux • Technolution • Thales • Thermo Fisher Scientific • TMC • Tomtom • Vanderlande • VDL

12 October 2023

Van der Valk Eindhoven-Best
Eindhovenseweg - Zuid 144
5683 PX Best​
The Netherlands

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Keynote: Philippa Hopcroft (Cocotec) & Ivo ter Horst (ASML)

Test less, verify Moore

Transforming how lithography machine software is built

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During this journey, ASML engineers introduced the Coco Platform as the next generation replacement to tackle the scale and complexity of systems required. The Coco Platform offers a number of unique strengths, which have contributed towards ASML’s successful leap forward along its formal verification journey. Today, millions of lines of code generated from formally verified models make ASML systems run reliably.

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Philippa Hopcroft is one of the co-founders and CEO of Cocotec, a spinout of the University of Oxford with the mission of bringing formal-verification tools to developers across industries. She completed her DPhil at Oxford in 2001 on security protocol analysis and has been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with formal verification in industry and academia ever since. Prior to launching Cocotec in 2019, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she led several research projects and was instrumental in getting strong engagement from companies across sectors, resulting in the successful spinout of Cocotec.
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