DASC Steering Committee

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DASC Steering Committee

• 10 March 2004

Peter Ashendenpeter_at_ashenden.com.au DASC Chair
Victor Bermanvberman_at_cadence.com DASC Vice Chair
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DASC-SC Voting Members

• Peter Ashenden (Chair)
• Victor Berman (Vice-Chair, P1666)
• Stephen Bailey (Secretary, P1076)
• Oz Levia (Treasurer)
• Alain Vachoux (P1076.1 to be confirmed)
• 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)
• David Barton (DATC Chair)

• Voting members currently 14
• quorum 7

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Agenda

1. Call to order
2. Minutes of meeting, 12 Nov 2004, San Jose
3. Business arising from the minutes
4. Report of business conducted by email
5. Financial report
6. Reports from Liaison Representatives
7. Project reports

• Study Group reports
• WG governance review
• Review of Patent Policy
• IEEE Policy on IP from standards
• Activities and meeting schedule for 2005
• Other business
• Adjourn

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Minutes, 20 Sep 2004 Meeting

• 2. Minutes on www.dasc.org
• 3. Business Arising
• IEC dual-logo standards maintenance
  (Roethig/Zamfirescu)
• Ashenden Newcomers Guide to DASC

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• IEEE-SA
• 1499 reaffirmed
• P1666 approved
• 1076.1 extended, revision PAR reqd
• 1076.3 extended pending 1076 revision
• 2005 edition of Style Manual published
• 2005 versions of SA Bylaws and Ops Manual
• New Patent LoA Form
• VuSpec CD of DASC standards in production
• MyBallot system deployed
• Discussion with J. Walker re funding
• Discussion with staff re revision of standards
  with Accellera

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• IEEE-CS/SAB
• Kathy Land now IEEE-CS VP Standards
• New SAB PPs approved
• Note that organizations must not claim
  conformance to draft standards
• Request for input on membership issues

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• DASC
• Membership fee review
• Discussion with Accellera re MoU on standards
  development and maintenance
• Clarification of 1076.3 status
• Approval of P1364 ballot group
• DASC/CAG
• Approval of P1850 PPs
• Approval of P1800 ballot group

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5. Financial Report

• Oz Levia (Treasurer)
• Financial report

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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
• 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
• CAD TC Ron Waxman

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7. Project Reports

• 1076 VHDL (Stephen Bailey)
• 1076.1 VHDL-AMS (Alain Vachoux)
• Revision PAR to be approved
• 1076.1.1 VHDL-AMS - Packages for Energy Domains
  (Alan Mantooth)
• 1076.4 VITAL (Ajay Varikat)
• needs corrigendum
• 1076.6 VHDL RTL Synthesis (J. Bhasker)
• no activity
• 1364/1800 Verilog/SystemVerilog (Johny Srouji)

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7. Project Reports

• 1364.1 Verilog RTL Synthesis (Bhasker)
• no activity
• 1481 OLA (John Beatty)
• 1497 SDF (Chair vacant, no activity)
• 1499 OMF (Chair vacant , no activity)
• 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)
• lapsed no PAR or report produced

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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 Yes 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. DASC Patent Policy

• Changes to DASC PPs needed
• to capture intent of not incorporating material
  for which patent holder reserves right to enforce
• Action Bailey Berman to propose changes

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11. 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

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12. 2005 Activities

• EDA Standards Workshop (Berman)
• Standards and Applications
• incl. Numerics summit
• in collaboration with DATC, TTTC/TTSC,
• DASC-SC meeting schedule
• June, Anaheim, CA
• September, Piscataway, NJ
• 2006
• DASC Plenary at DAC?

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13. Other Business

• EDA Glossary
• Being developed by editors at Synopsys, Cadence
  and Mentor
• Proposed IEEE standard
• IEEE Std. 100, The Authoritative Dictionary of
  IEEE Standards Terms
• WG ballot/comment process
• VHPI team offers their tools
• Can DASC support a common process?
• DASC-SC vitality
• Consider composition elected members?

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14. Adjourn

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