1. DASC Steering Committee 17 June 2005 Peter Ashenden peter@ashenden.com.au DASC Chair Victor Berman vberman@cadence.com DASC Vice Chair

2. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 2 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 (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

3. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 3 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 email 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 2005 13.Other business 14.Adjourn

4. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 4 Minutes, 10 Mar 2005 Meeting 2. Minutes on www.dasc.orgMinutes 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

5. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 5 4. Business Conducted by Email IEEE-SA: EDA VuSpec collection now available P1076.1 Approved P1076.4/Cor-1 Approved Letter granting Accellera permission to use IEEE-1076 for revision project 1364.1, 1076.6, 1603 approved as dual- logo IEE/IEC standards

6. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 6 4. Business Conducted by Email 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

7. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 7 4. Business Conducted by Email DASC: P1076.4/Cor-1 PAR approved DASC/CAG: Approval of SPIRIT SG

8. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 8 5. Financial Report Oz Levia (Treasurer) Financial report

9. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 9 6. 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 email 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

10. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 10 6. 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

11. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 11 7. Project Reports 1076: VHDL (Stephen Bailey) Proposal to Accellera Board for VHDL project 1076.1: VHDL-AMS (Alain Vachoux) 1076.1 1076.1.1: VHDL-AMS - Packages for Energy Domains (Alan Mantooth) Publication due 17 June 1076.4: VITAL (Ajay Varikat) 1076.4 1076.6: VHDL RTL Synthesis (J. Bhasker) Dissolve WG? 1364/1800: Verilog/SystemVerilog (Johny Srouji) 1364/1800

12. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 12 7. Project Reports 1364.1: Verilog RTL Synthesis (Bhasker) Dissolve WG? 1481: OLA (John Beatty) 1481 1499: OMF (Chair vacant, no activity) Dissolve WG? 1603: ALF (Wolfgang Roethig) Dissolve WG? 1647: e Verification Language (Yaron Kashai) 1647 1666: SystemC (Victor Berman) 1666 1850: PSL (Harry Foster) 1850

13. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 13 8. Study Group Reports SPIRIT (Victor Berman) SPIRIT

14. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 14 9. WG Governance Review WGRoster rec’d Elections req’d Elections held Procedures reviewed P1076Yes Review P1076.1Yes Review P1076.1.1NoYesNo P1076.6Yes No P1364/P1800Yes P1364.1Yes No P1481Yes Review P1603Yes No P1647YesChair onlyYesReview P1850Yes P1666Yes In progressNo

15. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 15 10. 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

16. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 16 11. 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

17. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 17 12. 2005/06 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, 26-27 January, Japan March: DATE, 6-10 March, Munich, Germany July: DAC, 24-28 July, San Francisco September: Piscataway, NJ

18. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 18 13. Other Business …

19. IEEE DASC Steering Committee - 17 June 2005 19 14. Adjourn Meeting minutes to be posted at www.dasc.org www.dasc.org