IEEE P1685

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IEEE P1685
Meeting May 31, 2006 ARM Ltd, Cambridge
UK Victor Berman, acting Chair
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Agenda

• Call to order - Introductions Affiliations
• Approve agenda
• Approve minutes
• Call for Patents
• Review of proposed Policies Procedures
• Vote on PP approval
• Review of proposed PAR
• Vote on PAR approval
• Review of dues payment plan
• New business
• Next meeting (announce date, time, and location,
  if known)
• Adjournment

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PPs discussion

• 5. Working Group Responsibilities
• The working group shall
• a) Complete the project from Project
  Authorization Request (PAR) approval to IEEE-SA
  Standards Board within 12 to 24 months as
  specified by the funding level of service (Only
  if we get paid services)
• b) Provide a business rationale for the
  development of the standard
• c) Submit required documentation, for example, a
  project schedule or a monthly status report
• d) Schedule meetings (in person or electronic) as
  appropriate, based on an agenda distributed at
  least two weeks before the meeting
• e) Obtain funding to cover dedicated support when
  desired to expedite the standards development
  process
• f) Use the IEEE FrameMaker document templates
• g) Include the Sponsor on distribution of the
  standard as it is developed and when it is ready
  to begin IEEE Sponsor ballot

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PP discussion

• Membership
• Amend part 7 to include the following paragraph
• In order to maintain membership and voting
  rights, an entity must
• Be an IEEE SA corporate member
• Pay the yearly 3750 entity per project fee
• Pay the fees decided by this WG which are
• gt 1B pay 10K gt 1M pay 5K lt 1M pay
  1K
• ---- NEED TO ESTABLISH TIME LINE FOR PAYMENTS
• I suggest a two month grace period so all
• payments are due by end of July, 2006
• Proxy votes
• Currently allowed with written permission
• do we want this?, is verbal OK sufficient?

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PAR Discussion

• 5.2 Scope of Proposed Standard This standard
  describes an XML Schema for meta-data documenting
  Intellectual Property (IP) used in the
  development, implementation and verification of
  electronic systems and an Application Programming
  Interface (API) to provide tool access to the
  meta-data. This schema provides a standard method
  to document IP that is compatible with automated
  integration techniques. The API provides a
  standard method for linking tools into a System
  Development framework, enabling a more flexible,
  optimized development environment. Tools
  compliant with this standard will be able to
  interpret, configure, integrate and manipulate IP
  blocks that comply with the proposed IP meta-data
  description. The proposed standard is based on
  version 1.4 IP-XACT of The SPIRIT Consortium.
• The standard is independent of any specific
  design processes. It does not cover those
  behavioral characteristics of the IP that are not
  relevant to integration.

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PAR discussion

• 5.4 Purpose of Proposed Standard (current)
• The purpose of this project is to provide a
  well-defined XML Schema for meta-data that
  documents the characteristics of Intellectual
  Property (IP) required for the automation of the
  configuration and integration of IP blocks and
  to define an Application Programming Interface
  (API) to make this meta-data directly accessible
  to automation tools.
• 5.4 Purpose of Proposed Standard (proposed)
• The purpose of the proposed standard is to
  enable the creation and exchange of IP in a
  highly automated design environment.

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Budget and Fee Schedule

• Proposed Fee structure Companies gt 1B pay 10K
  gt 1M pay 5K lt 1M pay 1K
• Minimum one year budget
• 40k for IEEE services
• 30k for editor services
• Will need further funding to host xml schema
• Want further funding for free access to docs and
  schema

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Choose DR and DRAs

• DR is permanent member
• We need DR or DRA to vote at this meeting
• Cadence - Victor
• Mentor
• Synopsys
• LSI
• ARM
• ST
• Freescale - Kathy
• Bluespec - Nikhil

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Standardization Process

• Organize Working Group
• Develop and approve PPs
• Elect officers
• Develop and approve PAR have it approved by
  NesCom
• Develop the standard
• Receive and accept material from SPIRIT
• Refine until WG agrees the draft is ready for
  ballot
• This will probably require putting in place
  sub-groups to deal with technical details
  including hosting of the schema
• Ballot draft standard
• Develop ballot constituency from IEEE-SA
  Corporate members
• Vote, respond to issues, possibly revise draft
  and re-ballot
• Submit approved to RevCom for approval
• IEEE does final copyedit
• Standard is released

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Officers

• Currently Victor was appointed by sponsor as
  acting chair to get group organized
• Need Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary (treasurer
  optional)
• Suggest holding elections as soon as PPs are
  approved
• Until then continue with appointed chair
• Lynn as acting secretary
• Leave vice-chair until election unless volunteer?

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Voting

• Membership shall be granted automatically to
  those entities attending the first working group
  meeting.
• membership shall be granted after the entity
  attends two consecutive meetings of the working
  group.
• The entity (member), through its DR or DRA, is
  expected to attend meetings as required by these
  procedures
• Secretary records attendance for members who
  attend at least 50 of a meeting's duration.
  Includes telephone, web conference etc.
• Membership status is maintained through
  consistent participation at meetings and through
  working group votes
• A working group member who misses two consecutive
  meetings membership status shall be revoked.
• A member who has lost its voting privileges shall
  have its voting privileges reinstated by
  attendance at two consecutive meetings of the
  working group. All voting privileges and rights
  shall be restored after attending the second
  consecutive meeting. If, for reasons of personal
  hardship, an entity cannot attend two consecutive
  meetings (but that entity continues to vote in
  ballots taken between meetings), the working
  group will be consulted on the status of the
  entity.

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The IEEE SA Corporate Program

• Program started about three years ago to support
  market based standards
• WG membership and ballot is by entity- one
  company one vote
• Dues for corporate membership is on sliding scale
  between 1 and 5 k USD (5 for over 1b)
• Entity based WG pay 3750 per year
• Rules for WG and ballot are basically the same as
  for individual except for voting and membership
  requirements
• Current status on 3750 Cadence, Philips,
  Synopsys paid ARM, ST, LSI, Mentor have agreed
  to pay.