IEEE DASC CoSponsorship of UPF Working Group

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IEEE DASC Co-Sponsorshipof UPF Working Group

• Proposal prepared by
• Stephen Bailey
• Chair, Accellera UPF Technical Subcommittee

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Agenda

• Request for DASC co-sponsorship of WG
• Background of UPF-TSC
• UPF from start to finish
• IEEE and Accellera relationship
• Working group
• IEEE Timeline

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Background for UPF-TSC
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Industry Need

• Power has become the dominate factor in the
  design of todays electronic systems
• Explosion in battery operated systems
• Many (most) non-portable designs are also
  constrained by power consumption requirements
• Heat generation and dissipation
• Practical power supply management
• Current state is a hodge-podge of commercial and
  ad hoc solutions
• SAIF, GAF, etc.
• Specification of power aware design
  characteristics
• Often done late at gate-level and ad hoc
• Need to verify correctness of power-aware
  functionality
• Done sooner and with higher correlation to design
  intent

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Demonstrated Need

• DAC 2006
• TI and Nokia organized a meeting on the topic of
  an open standard for low power design flows
• The 4 top EDA vendors attended
• Plus Atrenta
• Broad, significant user representation including
• TI
• Nokia
• ARM
• ST
• Philips
• Sun
• Shrenik Mehta represented Accellera
• Demand for Open, Fast, Inclusive standard

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Mission of Accellera Low Power Flow TSC

• The accelerated development of an open,
  comprehensive standard for the specification of
  power-aware requirements, design intent and
  implementation, verification and analysis across
  all design abstraction levels.

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Proposed Timeline
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UPF from Start to Finish

• August 28, 2006 January 23, 2007

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Actual Timeline
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Actual Timeline
P planned
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Highlights

• Openness demonstrated throughout
• Everyone invited and allowed to participate in
  TSC
• Accellera membership not required to join
• Documents available to all TSC members
• Fast
• Merely 5 months from start to finish
• Inclusive
• Unprecedented donations from 8 companies
• EDA suppliers and users donated
• Members and non-members of Accellera

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IEEE and Accellera Relationship
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Accellera and IEEE

• Accellera has long-standing relationship with
  IEEE
• Accellera Technical Committee Policies,
  Procedures, Guidelines
• All established Accellera standards are
  eventually planned for IEEE standardization to
  speed worldwide acceptance of such standards.
• Specification format, strawman donation and any
  other ownership documents follow or exceed IEEE
  rules and guidelines.
• Plan of record is to transfer UPF to IEEE when
  complete
• Since inception of IEEE Corporate Standards
  Program, Accellera Board recommends all standards
  be entity-based
• SystemVerilog, PSL, OCI, UPF

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CAG/DASC UPF Working Group
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UPF Working Group

• Submit draft PAR to DASC Chair for SC review and
  comment NLT 31 Jan 07
• Sponsor PAR jointly with CAG
• Draft PAR presented to CAG 6 Feb 07
• Entity-based
• Open to everyone
• Initial WG chair Stephen Bailey
• Conduct elections within DASC required 6 month
  period for all WG officers
• Follow prior precedent of operating procedures
  for jointly sponsored WGs

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IEEE Timeline
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IEEE Timeline
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Request approval of DASC-SC for UPF Working Group
Co-Sponsorship

• Thank you!

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On Convergence

• The UPF WG is willing
• To accept more than one technology donation
• Provide the forum for converging multiple
  industry formats into a single standard
• Change the name of the resulting standard
• Conditions
• Only one All donations for consideration must
  be submitted quickly