IEEE DASC Co-Sponsorship of UPF Working Group

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IEEE DASC Co-Sponsorshipof UPF Working Group

• Proposal prepared by
• Stephen Bailey
• Chair, Accellera UPF Technical Subcommittee

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Agenda

• Request for DASC co-sponsorship of WG
• Background of UPF-TSC
• UPF from start to finish
• IEEE and Accellera relationship
• Working group
• IEEE Timeline

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Background for UPF-TSC
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Industry Need

• Power has become the dominate factor in the
  design of todays electronic systems
• Explosion in battery operated systems
• Many (most) non-portable designs are also
  constrained by power consumption requirements
• Heat generation and dissipation
• Practical power supply management
• Current state is a hodge-podge of commercial and
  ad hoc solutions
• SAIF, GAF, etc.
• Specification of power aware design
  characteristics
• Often done late at gate-level and ad hoc
• Need to verify correctness of power-aware
  functionality
• Done sooner and with higher correlation to design
  intent

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Demonstrated Need

• DAC 2006
• TI and Nokia organized a meeting on the topic of
  an open standard for low power design flows
• The 4 top EDA vendors attended
• Plus Atrenta
• Broad, significant user representation including
• TI
• Nokia
• ARM
• ST
• Philips
• Sun
• Shrenik Mehta represented Accellera
• Demand for Open, Fast, Inclusive standard

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Mission of Accellera Low Power Flow TSC

• The accelerated development of an open,
  comprehensive standard for the specification of
  power-aware requirements, design intent and
  implementation, verification and analysis across
  all design abstraction levels.

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Proposed Timeline
Week Of Milestone
28 Aug 06 Accellera TSC formation
11 Sep 06 Accellera/Si2 Sponsored Workshop
18 Sep 06 Design Objectives Document Weekly meetings start
30 Oct 06 First drafts available for review
30 Nov 06 Submission to Accellera Board for Approval
31 Jan 07 Hand-off to IEEE and/or other suitable standards organizations
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UPF from Start to Finish

• August 28, 2006 January 23, 2007

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Actual Timeline
Week Of Milestone
28 Aug 06 Accellera TSC formation
18 Sep 06 Frequent telecon and face-to-face meetings commence
25 Sep 06 Design Objectives Document
05 Oct 06 Accellera/Si2 Sponsored Workshop
23 Oct 06 All donations accepted
6 Dec 06 Prospective UPF WG previewed at CAG meeting
27 Dec 06 First draft available for review
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Actual Timeline
Week Of Milestone
19 Jan 07 Final draft available for review
23 Jan 07 Final draft completion
23 Jan 07 Accellera TSC approval
24 Jan 07 Submission to Accellera Board for Approval
26 Jan 07 Proposal for DASC co-sponsorship
P 9 Feb 07 Submit PAR for NesCom consideration
P 22 Feb 07 Accellera Board approval of UPF
P 23 Mar 07 NesCom approvalAccellera UPF donation to IEEE
P planned
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Highlights

• Openness demonstrated throughout
• Everyone invited and allowed to participate in
  TSC
• Accellera membership not required to join
• Documents available to all TSC members
• Fast
• Merely 5 months from start to finish
• Inclusive
• Unprecedented donations from 8 companies
• EDA suppliers and users donated
• Members and non-members of Accellera

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IEEE and Accellera Relationship
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Accellera and IEEE

• Accellera has long-standing relationship with
  IEEE
• Accellera Technical Committee Policies,
  Procedures, Guidelines
• All established Accellera standards are
  eventually planned for IEEE standardization to
  speed worldwide acceptance of such standards.
• Specification format, strawman donation and any
  other ownership documents follow or exceed IEEE
  rules and guidelines.
• Plan of record is to transfer UPF to IEEE when
  complete
• Since inception of IEEE Corporate Standards
  Program, Accellera Board recommends all standards
  be entity-based
• SystemVerilog, PSL, OCI, UPF

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CAG/DASC UPF Working Group
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UPF Working Group

• Submit draft PAR to DASC Chair for SC review and
  comment NLT 31 Jan 07
• Sponsor PAR jointly with CAG
• Draft PAR presented to CAG 6 Feb 07
• Entity-based
• Open to everyone
• Initial WG chair Stephen Bailey
• Conduct elections within DASC required 6 month
  period for all WG officers
• Follow prior precedent of operating procedures
  for jointly sponsored WGs

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IEEE Timeline
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IEEE Timeline
Date Milestone
26 Jan 07 DASC approval of co-sponsorship (With opportunity of SC to comment on PAR before CAG consideration)
06 Feb 07 CAG approval of joint sponsorship for PAR
09 Feb 07 PAR submission
22 Mar 07 NESCOM approval of PAR
23 Mar 07 Formation of working group and call for contributions
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Request approval of DASC-SC for UPF Working Group
Co-Sponsorship

• Thank you!

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On Convergence

• The UPF WG is willing
• To accept more than one technology donation
• Provide the forum for converging multiple
  industry formats into a single standard
• Change the name of the resulting standard
• Conditions
• Only one All donations for consideration must
  be submitted quickly