RE: Accellera and DASC

Gabe has no official link to Accellera although he does advise the board
on matters that pertain to IEEE.

I am an Accellera board member as is Wolfgang Roethig. Mike McNamara
was until recently when he gave up his seat to a co-worker. Synopsys
and Mentor are both corporate members although their board reps do not
participate directly in DASC. So there is definitely a close
correlation between the two groups as you might expect since they have
similar domains of interest. I am not sure that this amounts to a
"conflict" and would be interested to here what problems you see with
this situation?

 Regards,
  Victor
  
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-stds-dasc@eda.org [mailto:owner-stds-dasc@eda.org] On Behalf
Of Evan Lavelle
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:38 AM
To: stds-dasc@eda.org
Subject: Re: Accellera and DASC

Bailey, Stephen wrote:

> Evan,
>
> I'm sure Peter will provide detailed information and/or correct me if
> I have gotten any of the information below wrong or it is incomplete.
>
>
> I'd like to know what questions/issues motivated this email?

The primary motivation was Gabe Moretti's recent series of articles for
EDN (the last one is at
<http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA425604?industryid=2813
&nid=2017&rid=1470711747>).

These are clearly biased and can only serve to undermine the DASC.
However, Gabe consistently omits to mention his connection with
Accellera. This is an issue for us, since he is also a DASC and a NesCom

member.

The second motivation is, of course, the upcoming SystemVerilog PAR. We
need to know what the agenda is before this is pushed through.

> Accellera membership is corporation/organization based. It's
> membership list is published at:
> http://www.accellera.org/member.html. Only corporate members are
> eligible for Accellera board membership.

There doesn't appear to be a list of Accellera officers at
accellera.org. As far as I know, both Dennis Brophy and Gabe Moretti,
and possibly other DASC members, have positions within Accellera. I
don't have any objections to corporate connections with Accellera, but I

do believe that we need to identify DASC and NesCom members with
personal connections, paid or unpaid.

Evan Lavelle
Received on Mon Jun 14 09:03:09 2004