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Proposed ITC Roadmap

• Mar 30, 2005

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Overview

• Define ITCs long-term goals
• Recognize schedule ITC is working toward
• Map long-term goals to Schedule

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ITCs Long-Term Goals

• Progress has occurred during Feb/Mar 05 ITC
  meetings
• Several discussions resulted in common high level
  goals
• Duaine Pryor (Mentor Graphics) summarized the
  discussion topics into presentation form
• Appears to be a general agreement on high-level
  goals
• Maintain existing SCE-MI goals (performance,
  portability, compatibility with SCE-MI 1.X)
• Support a common verification environment and
  model architecture for both simulation and
  emulation, thereby
• broadening use of acceleration by end-users
• broadening the availability of common
  verification-IP in the market.
• General agreement on how to achieve high-level
  goals
• Lower barriers-to-entry
• Ease modeling effort
• Ease use model adoption
• Maintain performance focus

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ITC Schedule

• Accellera Board has tasked ITC
• Bring out next revision of SCE-MI (2.0) within a
  year
• Proposal ITC should aim for yearly updates to
  standard
• Provide real benefit and improvement in a timely
  manner
• Demonstrate progress and member cooperation to
  end-user and IP providers to bolster permanent
  view of SCE-MI
• Take small (one-year-sized) steps in evolution
  of the standard, allowing IP providers to keep
  up with changes.

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Map Goals to Schedule

• Generally-Agreed Goals are quite broad
• Focus on Interface issues
• Continue to refine long-term SCE-MI goals as a
  background task
• Define 2-year/3-year plan at high-level
• Possibly a separate committees for
• Modeling-related issues (Modeling Technical
  Committee, MTC?)
• Usability, application and debug issues (the
  other basket)
• Plan first step (version 2.0) along long-term
  roadmap of SCE-MI
• ITC-agreed first steps (in late 2003)
• These near-term goals fit within the context of
  the long-term goals discussed in Feb/Mar 05 ITC
  meetings

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