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

• Call to order
• Minutes of meeting, 12 Nov 2004, San Jose
• Business arising from the minutes
• Report of business conducted by email
• Financial report
• Reports from Liaison Representatives
• 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
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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