DASC Steering Committee

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DASC Steering Committee

• 12 November 2004
• Peter Ashendenpeter_at_ashenden.com.au
• DASC Chair

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DASC-SC Voting Members

• Peter Ashenden (Chair)
• Victor Berman (Vice-Chair)
• Stephen Bailey (Secretary, P1076)
• Oz Levia (Treasurer)
• Tom Kazmierski (P1076.1)
• Alan Mantooth (P1076.1.1)
• Ajay Varikat (P1076.4)
• J. Bhasker (P1076.6, P1364.1)
• Johny Srouji (P1364, P1800)
• John Beatty (P1481)
• Wolfgang Roethig (P1603)
• Yaron Kashai (P1647)
• Harry Foster (P1850)
• John Willis (DATC Chair)

• Voting members currently 14
• quorum 7

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Agenda

• Call to order
• Minutes of meeting 20 Sep 2004 in Piscataway, NJ
• Business arising from the minutes
• Report of business conducted by email
• Financial report
• Reports from Liaison Representatives
• Project reports
• P1076.1.1 at 1000am
• Study Group reports
• WG governance review

1. Proposed amendments to procedures
2. DASC role in EDA standards development
3. Review of Patent Policy
4. IEEE Policy on IP from standards
5. VuSpec publication
6. Activities and meeting schedule for 2005
7. Other business
8. Adjourn

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Minutes, 20 Sep 2004 Meeting

• 2. Minutes on www.dasc.org
• 3. Business Arising
• Ashenden Newcomers Guide to DASC
• Waxman CAD-C scope re standards
• Ashenden DASC/CAG PPs
• Item 4.6Ensure that WGs engage dedicated support
  services from an appropriate provider to expedite
  the standards development process

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• IEEE-SA
• NesCom approval
• P1076 revision, P1076b withdrawal
• P1850 PSL project
• Nescom submission P1666 SystemC
• RevCom submission 1499-1998 (OMI) reaffirmation
• PatCom non-assertion box on LoA form
• AudCom DASC PPs approved
• IEC TC93 WG2 consideration of 1076.6 and 1364.1
  for dual-logo process

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• IEEE-CS/SAB
• SAB PPs revised to remove requirements on
  sponsors
• this affects DASC PPs

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• DASC
• Call for input on VuSpec product(see 14)
• Discussion with Ringle re Patent Policy (see 12)
• Discussion with Stanziola re dissemination of IP
  from stds (see 13)
• Discussion on funding DASC activities (see 11)

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5. Financial Report for 2003

• Oz Levia (Treasurer)
• Financial report
• Travel reimbursement
• Currently approved for Chair and Vice-Chair for
  2004

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6. Liaison Representatives

• IEEE-CS/SAB Peter Ashenden
• IEC TC93 Design Automation
• TC93 Liaison to DASC Alex Zamfirescu/Andy
  Ickowicz
• DASC Liaison to TC93 Alex Zamfirescu
• Maintenance of IEEE-IEC dual logo standards
• ref WG2 draft minutes Oct 2004
• JEITA, EDA Technical Committee
• JEITA Liaison to DASC Satoshi Kojima
• DASC Liaison to JEITA Victor Berman
• DATC
• DASC Chair ex officio on DATC EXCOM
• DATC Chair ex officio on DASC-SC

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6. Liaison Representatives

• EIA IBIS Open Forum
• Michael Mirmak, Chair
• Liaison representation?

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7. Project Reports

• 1076 VHDL (Stephen Bailey)
• 1076.1 VHDL-AMS (Tom Kazmierski)
• Revision PAR in progress
• 1076.1.1 VHDL-AMS - Packages for Energy Domains
  (Alan Mantooth)
• 1076.4 VITAL (Ajay Varikat)
• 1076.6 VHDL RTL Synthesis (J. Bhasker)
• 1364/1800 Verilog/SystemVerilog (Johny Srouji)
• 1364.1 Verilog RTL Synthesis (Bhasker)

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7. Project Reports

• 1481 OLA (John Beatty)
• 1497 SDF (Chair vacant)
• no activity
• 1499 OMF (Chair vacant)
• reaffirmation submitted to RevCom
• 1603 ALF (Wolfgang Roethig)
• 1647 e Verification Language (Yaron Kashai)
• 1666 SystemC (Victor Berman)
• 1850 PSL (Harry Foster)

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8. Study Group Reports

• VHDL High Frequency (John Willis)
• require PAR report by 11-Dec-2004

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9. WG Governance Review

• Planned process
• forward procedures to SAB for approval (done)
• review WG membership and need for elections (in
  progress)
• review WG procedures, revise if necessary (in
  progress)
• audit WG compliance with procedures

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9. WG Governance Review
WG Roster recd Elections reqd Elections held Procedures reviewed
P1076 Yes Yes Yes In progress
P1076.1 Yes Yes In progress No
P1076.1.1 No Yes No No
P1076.6 Yes Yes No No
P1364/P1800 Yes Yes Yes Yes
P1364.1 Yes Yes No No
P1481 Yes Yes Yes No
P1603 Yes Yes Yes No
P1647 Yes Chair only Yes In progress
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10. Proposed Amendment to PPs

• Proposed by Jim Lewis
• That the DASC, DASC-SC and Model WG procedures be
  amended to define the format for
• a motion for call for discussion of an
  issue/proposal
• a motion for call for vote on an issue/proposal
• This is particularly relevant to procedures for
  email discussion
• ref email from Zamfirescu
• RROO applies to in-person meetings
• Not applicable to email discussions!
• Ashenden Lewis
• Propose to include guidelines in Guide to DASC
  document

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11. DASC role in EDA standards

• Sponsoring individual and entity based projects
• Relationships with other committees
  organizations
• within IEEE
• external
• Membership provisions and fees
• DASC technical governance (Zamfirescu/Waxman)

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12. DASC Patent Policy

• IEEE-SA/SB Bylaws, Clause 6
• Currently, DASC accepts only 6(a)
• Advice from Ringle cant do this!
• notes Ringle, Ashenden, Bailey
• Should DASC conform with general IEEE-SA policy?

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13. Dissemination of stds IP

• Code from standards
• header files, package interfaces
• code bodies
• Drafts of standards in progress
• open for review vs. protected
• Stanziola (IEEE-SA) to provide draft guidelines
  for comment
• Also an issue for other SAB sponsors
• see SAB minutes, 3-Nov-04, 4.1a
• SAB to draft requirements for IEEE-SA BoG to
  consider

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14. VuSpec proposal

• CD-ROM product for standards
• includes stds docs and related material
• eg, HTML, PDF, media content, etc
• introductory and ancillary material
• HTML-based navigation, interlinked
• DASC is invited to co-develop a product
• SA to bear cost
• DASC to contribute material
• Issues
• Revenue sharing?
• Legality of hyperlinked standards?

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15. 2005 Activities

• EDA Standards Workshop (Berman)
• Standards and Applications
• incl. Numerics summit
• in collaboration with DATC, TTTC/TTSC,
• co-locate with DVCon?
• DASC-SC meeting schedule
• January, Yokohama, Japan
• March, Munich, Germany
• June, Anaheim, CA
• September, Piscataway, NJ
• DASC Plenary?

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16. Other Business

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17. Adjourn

• Meeting minutes to be posted at www.dasc.org