IEEE DASC Steering Committee 20 September 2004 Piscataway, NJ

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IEEE DASCSteering Committee20 September
2004Piscataway, NJ

• 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)
• J. Bhasker (P1076.6, P1364.1)
• Johny Srouji (P1364, P1800)
• Michael McNamara (P1364)
• John Beatty (P1481)
• Wolfgang Roethig (P1603)
• Yaron Kashai (P1647)
• John Willis (DATC Chair)

• Voting members currently 13
• quorum 7

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Agenda

• Call to order
• welcoming remarks
• Minutes of meeting 11 June 2004 in San Diego, CA
• Business arising from the minutes
• Report of business conducted by email
• Financial report
• travel reimbursement
• Reports from Liaison representatives
• Project reports
• Study Group reports

• WG governance review
• Proposed amendments to procedures
• Entity-based projects in DASC
• Activities and meeting schedule for 2004/05
• Other business
• Adjourn

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Minutes of Meeting on 11 June 2004

• 2. Minutes on www.dasc.org
• 3. Business Arising
• re 3 Victor JEITA meeting schedule liaison
  requirement
• re 12 Peter Newcomers Guide to DASC
• re 8 Alex Z proposal for numerics SG

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• Established DASC/CAG Joint Sponsor Cttee (see
  11)
• DASC-SC/SA approval of revised P1364 PAR
• migration of work to SV-WG
• DASC-SC approval of P1076 revision PAR
• DASC-SC approval of SystemC PAR
• DASC-SC approval of PSL PAR
• Reminder to WG Chairs re showing patent slides
• can link to them in agenda for telecon
• Review of membership fees (see item 11)
• Call for interest in EDA standards workshop
• Berman, McNamara, Gover, Willis, Barton

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4. Business Conducted by Email

• Question re posting of drafts and code on
  websites
• Brophy Bailey to liaise with Claudio Stanziola
• Discussion of relationships between DASC, CAG and
  Accellera
• IEEE-CS/SAB revising procedures to remove
  sponsorship aspects (defer to IEEE-SA procedures)
• DASC as reference customer for IBM Rational re
  use of Rose/UML in PLI standards (for two free
  licenses)
• Reaffirmation of 1499 (OMI)
• Withdrawal of 1164 (VHDL Std Logic)
• CAD Council ad hoc cttee formed
• Question of validity of DASC Patent policy

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5. Financial Report for 2003

• 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
• JEITA, EDA Technical Committee
• JEITA Liaison to DASC Satoshi Kojima
• DASC Liaison to JEITA?
• DATC
• DASC Chair ex officio on DATC EXCOM
• DATC Chair ex officio on DASC-SC

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7. Project Reports

• 1076 VHDL (Stephen Bailey)
• approved 2002, revision PAR submitted
• 1076b VHDL PLI (Stephen Bailey)
• PAR valid to 31-Dec-07, to be withdrawn
• 1076.1 VHDL-AMS (Tom Kazmierski)
• approved 1999, needs revision PAR
• 1076.1.1 VHDL-AMS - Packages for Energy
  Domains(Alan Mantooth)
• PAR valid to 31-Dec-06, recirc ballot pending

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7. Project Reports

• 1076.4 VITAL (Ajay Varikat)
• approved 2000, any maintenance required?
• 1076.6 VHDL RTL Synthesis (J. Bhasker)
• approved 2004, in publication edit
• 1364 Verilog (Michael McNamara/Johny Srouji)
• approved 2000, revision PAR valid to 31-Dec-07,
  assigned to SV-WG
• 1364.1 Verilog RTL Synthesis (Bhasker)
• approved 2002
• 1481 OLA (John Beatty)
• PAR valid to 31-Dec-06

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7. Project Reports

• 1497 SDF (Chair vacant)
• approved 2001, stabilize in 2006?
• 1499 OMF (Chair vacant)
• approved 1998, reaffirmation ballot passed
• 1603 ALF (Wolfgang Roethig)
• approved 2003
• 1647 e Verification Language (Yaron Kashai)
• PAR valid to 31-Dec-07
• P1800 SystemVerilog
• PAR valid to 31-Dec-2008

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8. Study Group Reports

• VHDL High Frequency (John Willis)
• require PAR report by 11-Dec-2004
• P1666 SystemC (Victor Berman)
• PAR submitted for NesCom approval
• P1825 PSL (Harry Foster)
• PAR submitted for NesCom approval

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9. WG Governance Review

• Planned process
• forward procedures to SAB for approval (done)
• review WG membership and need for elections
• review WG procedures, revise if necessary
• 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 No
P1076.1 Yes Yes No No
P1076.1.1 No Yes No No
P1076.4 No Yes No No
P1076.6 Yes Yes No No
P1364.1 Yes Yes No No
P1481 Yes Yes Yes No
P1603 Yes Yes In progress No
P1647 Yes Chair only Yes No
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10. Proposed Amendment to Procedures

• 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
• RROO applies to in-person meetings
• applicability email discussions ?
• Ashenden Lewis to review

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11. Entity-Based Projects in DASC

• DASC/CAG Joint Sponsor Committee procedures
• Role of DASC in sponsoring individual and entity
  based projects
• Membership provisions and fees
• need to be set for 2005,
• individual
• entity

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12. 2004/05 Activities

• EDA Standards Workshop
• Standards and Applications
• incl. Numerics summit
• in collaboration with DATC, TTTC/TTSC,
• Publicity
• use of IEEE-SA Design Automation ballot pool
• Meeting schedule
• 12-Nov-2004, at Mentor Graphics, San Jose, CA
• Telecons?

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13. Other Business

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14. Adjourn

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