DASC Steering Committee 17 June 2005 Peter Ashenden DASC Chair Victor Berman DASC Vice Chair

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June DASC-SC Voting Members Peter Ashenden (Chair) Victor Berman (Vice-Chair, P1666) Stephen Bailey (Secretary, P1076) Oz Levia (Treasurer) Alain Vachoux (P1076.1) Alan Mantooth (P ) 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

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Agenda 1.Call to order 2.Minutes of meeting, 10 Mar 05, Munich 3.Business arising from the minutes 4.Report of business conducted by 5.Financial report 6.Reports from Liaison Representatives 7.Project reports 8.Study Group reports 9.WG governance review 10.Review of Patent Policy 11.IEEE Policy on IP from standards 12.Activities and meeting schedule for Other business 14.Adjourn

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Minutes, 10 Mar 2005 Meeting 2. Minutes on 3. Business Arising IEC dual-logo standards maintenance (Roethig/Zamfirescu) Ashenden: Newcomer’s Guide to DASC Check with IEEE-SA re funding MoU with Accellera re maintenance of standards Review of P&Ps in response to SAB changes Survey WGs re issue tracking EDA Glossary Berman: vitality proposal

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Business Conducted by IEEE-SA: EDA VuSpec collection now available P Approved P1076.4/Cor-1 Approved Letter granting Accellera permission to use IEEE-1076 for revision project , , 1603 approved as dual- logo IEE/IEC standards

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Business Conducted by IEEE-CS/SAB: Review of process for “fast-track” adoption/approval of standards Discussion of archiving of WG material Sponsor may archive for up to 5 years Material should then be discarded SA keeps required official records Proposal for web presence and collaboration support for SAB, sponsors & WGs

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Business Conducted by DASC: P1076.4/Cor-1 PAR approved DASC/CAG: Approval of SPIRIT SG

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Financial Report Oz Levia (Treasurer) Financial report

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Liaison Representatives IEEE-CS/SAB: Peter Ashenden P&Ps for SAB as sponsor approved by SAB SAB to survey sponsors for vitality info PatCom slides have been updated Plan to revise voting rules Stabilization of standards will probably go Discussion of IP rights for IEEE standards Especially w.r.t. Code from standards Proposal to adopt Creative Commons licenses Discussion of “Fast Track” process Can already “adopt” specifications Proposed guidelines for approval with minimal changes

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Liaison Representatives 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: Victor Berman

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Project Reports 1076: VHDL (Stephen Bailey) Proposal to Accellera Board for VHDL project : VHDL-AMS (Alain Vachoux) : VHDL-AMS - Packages for Energy Domains (Alan Mantooth) Publication due 17 June : VITAL (Ajay Varikat) : VHDL RTL Synthesis (J. Bhasker) Dissolve WG? 1364/1800: Verilog/SystemVerilog (Johny Srouji) 1364/1800

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Project Reports : Verilog RTL Synthesis (Bhasker) Dissolve WG? 1481: OLA (John Beatty) : OMF (Chair vacant, no activity) Dissolve WG? 1603: ALF (Wolfgang Roethig) Dissolve WG? 1647: e Verification Language (Yaron Kashai) : SystemC (Victor Berman) : PSL (Harry Foster) 1850

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Study Group Reports SPIRIT (Victor Berman) SPIRIT

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June WG Governance Review WGRoster rec’d Elections req’d Elections held Procedures reviewed P1076Yes Review P1076.1Yes Review P NoYesNo P1076.6Yes No P1364/P1800Yes P1364.1Yes No P1481Yes Review P1603Yes No P1647YesChair onlyYesReview P1850Yes P1666Yes In progressNo

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June DASC Patent Policy Letter from IEEE-SA PatCom Chair Deviation from SA Patent Policy is expressly prohibited 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

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Dissemination of Stds IP This is an issue for other SAB sponsors SAB preparing proposal for SASB Slides from Robson (SAB Vice-Chair) Slides from Robson Document from Robson & Morse Document DASC to monitor and advise w.r.t. our projects

IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June /06 Activities EDA Standards Workshop (Berman) “Standards and Applications” incl. Numerics summit in collaboration with DATC, TTTC/TTSC, … DASC-SC meeting schedule 19 September, Piscataway, NJ 2006: January: EDS Fair, January, Japan March: DATE, 6-10 March, Munich, Germany July: DAC, July, San Francisco September: Piscataway, NJ

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IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June Adjourn Meeting minutes to be posted at