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DASC Steering Committee

10 March 2004

Peter Ashendenpeter@ashenden.com

.auDASC Chair

Victor Bermanvberman@cadence.c

omDASC 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

1. Call to order2. Minutes of meeting,

12 Nov 2004, San Jose

3. Business arising from the minutes

4. Report of business conducted by email

5. Financial report6. Reports from Liaison

Representatives7. Project reports

8. Study Group reports9. WG governance

review10. Review of Patent

Policy11. IEEE Policy on IP

from standards12. Activities and

meeting schedule for 2005

13. Other business14. 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: Newcomer’s Guide to DASC

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4. Business Conducted by Email

IEEE-SA: 1499 reaffirmed P1666 approved 1076.1 extended, revision PAR req’d 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 P&Ps 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 groupDASC/CAG Approval of P1850 P&Ps 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 ReviewWG Roster

rec’dElections req’d

Elections held

Procedures reviewed

P1076 Yes Yes Yes In progress

P1076.1 Yes Yes Yes No

P1076.1.1 No Yes No No

P1076.6 Yes Yes No No

P1364/P1800

Yes Yes Yes Yes

P1364.1 Yes Yes No No

P1481 Yes Yes Yes No

P1603 Yes Yes Yes No

P1647 Yes Chair only

Yes In progress

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10. DASC Patent Policy

Changes to DASC P&Ps 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