IEEE DASC Steering Committee

Unapproved Minutes

 

Date: Thursday, 27 July, 2006

Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm, US Pacific Daylight-Saving Time

Venue: San Francisco Moscone Convention Center Room #218

Dial In Number: 408-894-3000 #ID 1076

Name

Position

Voting member

 

Victor Berman

Chair

X

 

Alex Zamfirescu

Vice-Chair

X

 

Gary Delp

Secretary

X

 

Kathy Werner

Treasurer

X

 

Chuck Swart

ISAC

X

Proxy for Jim Lewis

Steve Bailey

Ex-Secry.

 

 

Dennis Brophy

SAB

 

 

Gerrard Berry

Esterel SG

 

 

Al Dunlop

CEDA

 

 

Ernst Christen

1076.1 AMS

X

Proxy for Alain Vachoux

Lance Thompson

Accellera TC

 

 

Wolfgang Roethig

1603 ALF

X

 

Peter Ashenden

Ex-Chair

 

 

Ajay Varikat

1076.4 Vital

X

 

Perry Alexander

Rosetta SG

 

 

Yaron Kashai

1647 ‘e’

X

 

Pat Bryant

 

 

 

Adam Morawiec

ECSI

 

 

Voting Members Not Present

 

 

 

Johny Srouji

P1800

 

 

John Beatty

P1481

 

 

Harry Foster

P1850

 

 

 

  1. Call to order – 27 July 2006 4:10 pm, pdt.
  2. Quorum determined present.
  3. Agenda approved with amendments (Chuck/Kathy)
  4. Minutes of previous meeting approved. (Chuck/Kathy)
  5. Report of business conducted by email
    1. Introduction of New Officers

                                                               i.      Alex Zamfirescu, VP

                                                             ii.      Gary Delp, Secretary

                                                            iii.      Kathy Werner, Treasurer

  1. Financial Report
    1. No expenses since last meeting $2800 accrued since last meeting based on 70 members for 2006.
  2. Al Dunlop – Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) gave a report on recent activities – see presentation attached
  3. Study Groups

               ESTEREL – see the presentation attached

Gerard Berry gave a presentation on a proposal to develop a standard based on Esterel v7.

There was discussion on the relevance of Esterel.  Steve Bailey asserted that Esterel has been around for a long time and there are not many commercial implementations.  

Gerard said that until 2000, Esterel was a reserch project and that there is more recently increased interest in use for commercial projects especially those requiring safety certification.  IEEE would provide a forum for improvement and the potential members of the group span many companies including commercial applications.  Steve questioned the decision to have an individual rather than entity based WG.  Gerard stated that the potential WG members felt that the individual basis would bring the needed expertise in a more effective way than an entity based WG.

 

Motion to approve the study group and to move forward to Draft PAR – Alex Zamfirescu seconded by Chuck Swart, passed with no objections.

 

 

           Rosetta – study group proposal attached

                     Presentation from Perry Alexander proposed WG Chair

Move to approve, by Gary Delp, seconded by Alex Zamfirescu, passed with no objections.

  1. Project reports
    1. 1076.1 (VHDL-AMS)  Alain Vachoux / Ernst Christen

see presentation.

AI: Victor to connect the verilog-AMS work in Accellera with VHDL-AMS

    1. 1647 (e)  Yaron

See presentation

    1. 1603 (ALF)   see presentaion attached
    2. 1076.4 (VITAL)  Ajay

                                                               i.      Have a PAR for correcting small errors WG active on this.

                                                             ii.      Limitations of generics has been resolved in Accellera standard

                                                            iii.      Memory feature will be addressed over the next 2 meetings

    1. 1076 (VHDL)  Jim Lewis / Chuck Swart / Lance Thompson

                                                               i.      VHDL presentation in the Accellera presentation

                                                             ii.      3.0 approved: will keep in Accellera for trial implementations

                                                            iii.      PSL & Encryption are main features added

    1. 1076.1.1 (VHDL-AMS packages)
    2. 1481 (OLA)  - no report, LRM in editting, applying for extension
    3. 1499 (OMI)  - stable – no current activity
    4. 1666 (SystemC)

                                                               i.      Standard Approved, LRM is out, Openly available for download

                                                             ii.      Waiting for TLM 2.0 from OSCI

    1. 1685 SPIRIT  - new PAR submitted for approval to NesCom for Sept. Mtng
    2. 1800/1364 (SystemVerilog/Verilog)  - no report, see Accellera slides for status
    3. 1850 (PSL)  - no report – new PAR was submitted to RevCom for maintenance activities.
  1. Any Other business
  2. DATC Report
    1. Juan-antonio Carballo named new DATC Chair – see enclosed report
  3. Encryption – update on activity by Gary Delp
    1. Industry initiative for using Verilog and VHDL IP encryption in tool flows
    2. Coordination with Andrew Dahlman of Synplicity
    3. Looking for a standards home for this work.
  4. Activities and meeting schedule
  5. Adjourn