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IEC TC93 Liaison Report to DASC Alex Zamfirescu IEC USNC TA TC93 Convener IEC TC93 WG2 November 2004. News from IEC TC93 Affecting DASC. TC93 meetings, October 3 to 8, IEEE Headquarters WG1 Discussed interoperability of international standards
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IEC TC93 Liaison Report to DASCAlex Zamfirescu IEC USNC TA TC93Convener IEC TC93 WG2November 2004
News from IEC TC93 Affecting DASC • TC93 meetings, October 3 to 8, IEEE Headquarters • WG1 Discussed interoperability of international standards • The following two documents were submitted for Dual Logo (DL)IEEE Std 1076.6-2004, Standard for VHDL Register Transfer Level (RTL) Synthesis IEEE Std 1364.1-2002, IEEE Standard for Verilog Register Transfer Level Synthesis • Maintenance procedures for DL were discussed during plenary, Alex Zamfirescu was chartered to write the missing details of the procedures (see DL Procedures) • SMB/2897/QP - Submission of one IEEE product under the IEC-IEEE Agreement for publication as a double logo IEC/IEEE standard - 1603TM IEEE Standard for an Advanced Library Format (ALF) Describing Integrated Circuit (IC) Technology, Cells and Blocks was approved (by IEC SMB) • A solution to help improve IEEE DASC technical leadership was proposed and discussed at the TC management meeting (see R. Waxman open letter)
SCHEDULE • TC will meet in • Fall 2005 in Nara, Japan • Fall 2006 in London, UK • Fall 2007 in Bucharest, RO • During 2005 IEC TC93 WG2 will meet during several conferences including DATE, DAC and possibly Numerics Workshop
Joint IEEE/DASC-IEC/TC93 Efforts • Understand the ramifications of DL maintenance • Establish fine granularity procedures to address DL Std issues (TC93 – Alex Z – DASC - TBD) • Exercise procedures on VHDL and Verilog maintenance • Develop standards roadmap • Help promote and participate in DATC/CANDE/DASC organized workshops