Date: Tue Oct 09 2007 - 15:41:16 PDT
I approve. Abdulrahman "Abbey" Rafiq Signal Integrity Engineer ASIC Signal Integrity & Packaging Design Group (ASIPD) arafiq@cisco.com Phone :+1-408-527-5540 Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA www.cisco.com <http://www.cisco.com/> ________________________________ From: owner-stds-dasc@eda.org [mailto:owner-stds-dasc@eda.org] On Behalf Of Victor Berman Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:36 AM To: stds-dasc@eda.org Subject: FW: QIP PAR approval - call for vote This message did not seem to get sent so I am resending. Thanks, Victor Victor Berman President & CEO Improv Systems, Inc. Email: victorb@improvsys.com Office: 978 927 0555 x 27 Mobile: 978 390 7704 ________________________________ From: Victor Berman Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:32 AM To: 'stds-dasc@eda.org' Subject: QIP PAR approval - call for vote Dear DASC Members, I have enclosed the updated IP Quality PAR that incorporates the comments received during the review period. I think I confused the issue by trying to have the review and vote done in parallel. To be clear, the comment and discussion period for the PAR is over. We are now voting on approval of DASC sponsorship for this PAR and WG. Since this is an official DASC vote, it will count toward or against voting eligibility for future DASC votes so I encourage everyone to vote on this matter even if the vote is to abstain. The vote will be open for the usual two week period ending on October 23, 2007. Please let me know if there are any questions. Regards, Victor Berman DASC Chair Victor Berman President & CEO Improv Systems, Inc. Email: victorb@improvsys.com Office: 978 927 0555 x 27 Mobile: 978 390 7704 ________________________________ Draft PAR Confirmation Number: 215905563.22204 Submittal Email: kathy.werner@freescale.com Type of Project: PAR for a New Standard 1.1 Project Number: P 1.2 Type of Document: Standard for 1.3 Life Cycle: Full 1.4 Is this project in ballot now? No 1.5 Is the balloting group aware of the PAR modification? 2.1 Title of Standard: Standard for Intellectual Property (IP) Quality 3.1 Name of Working Group: Contact information for Working Group Chair Email: Phone: Contact Information for Working Group Vice Chair Email: Phone: 3.2 Sponsoring Society and Committee:IEEE Computer Society/Design Automation (C/DA) Contact information for Sponsor Chair: Victor Berman Email: victorb@improvsys.com Phone: 978 927 0555 x 27 Contact information for Standards Representative: Email: Phone: 3.3 Joint Sponsor:/ () Contact information for Sponsor Chair: Email: Phone: Contact information for Standards Representative: Email: Phone: 4.1 Type of Ballot: Entity 4.2 Expected Date of Submission for Initial Sponsor Ballot: 2008-04 4.3 Projected Completion Date for Submittal to RevCom: 2008-06 5.1 Approximate number of entities expected to work on this project: 10 5.2 Scope of Proposed Standard: This specification defines a standard XML format for representing electronic IP quality information, based on an information model for electronic IP quality measurement. It includes a schema and the terms that are relevant for measuring electronic IP quality, including software that executes on the system. The schema and information model can be focused to represent particular categories of interest to IP users. 5.3 Is the completion of this standard is dependent upon the completion of another standard: No If yes, please explain: 5.4 Purpose of Proposed Standard: The purpose of this standard is to provide a unified view of quality measures for IP to facilitate the use and integration of this IP used in electronic system design. This will enable the continuous improvement of IP used for system design and verification by providing a mechanism for qualitative comparison between such IP. The standard IP quality measures and characteristic exchange format defined can be incorporated into a variety of EDA tools. 5.5 Need for the Project: Faster product cycles and the more aggressive time-to-market requirements and more narrow market windows for new products, as well as limited resources in most companies doing chip design increases the motivation of chip designers to speed up their design process by reusing IP, especially in areas outside of the core competencies of the design teams. Quality issues in complex IP purchased from 3rd party providers in many cases end up seriously jeopardizing the timeliness of chip tape-outs if the issues with the IP are found too late in the design process. In cases where designs with faulty IP tape out, due to the high mask costs of modern process nodes an entire company may find themselves at risk if their design ends up not working and a re-spin of the design is required. Quality is the single most important issue hindering wide-spread IP adoption. A means for assessing the risk of IP which is being considered for use needs to be standardized. There are numerous ways and methodologies used to design and verify IP's resulting in a large variance in the quality of the IP. Adopting a quality standard metric that will account for the variances in designing, verifying and testing the IP will result in fair quality assessment and improved quality. The VSI Alliance is donating their Quality IP (QIP) metric to be used as a baseline for further development and wider adoption within IEEE ensuring a baseline by which all vendors measure and communicate quality aspects and facilitating more efficient IP evaluations and risk mitigation plans on the part of the IP consumer. 5.6 Stakeholders for the Standard: Stakeholders for this project include EDA vendors, IP vendors, electronic systems builders and IC manufacturers. Intellectual Property 6.1.a. Has the IEEE-SA policy on intellectual property been presented to those responsible for preparing/submitting this PAR prior to the PAR submittal to the IEEE-SA Standards Board? Yes If yes, state date: 2007-08-21 If no, please explain: 6.1.b. Is the Sponsor aware of any copyright permissions needed for this project? Yes If yes, please explain: The standard will be based on material owned by the VSI Alliance. They have agreed to transfer the copyright of this material to the IEEE for use in this proposed standard. 6.1.c. Is the Sponsor aware of possible registration activity related to this project? No If yes, please explain: 7.1 Are there other standards or projects with a similar scope? Yes If yes, please explain: P1685 describes a method to handle IP that enables automated configuration and integration through plug-in tools. The proposed work describes a method to provide IP quality measures that are in addition and complimentary to the existing work. Another group that is looking at IP information exchange is SG P1735, specifically in the area of IP encryption. and answer the following: Sponsor Organization: DASC Project/Standard Number: P1685 & P1735 Project/Standard Date: 2005-08-11 Project/Standard Title:Standard for IP-XACT, Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows Recommended Practice for Design Intellectual Property (IP) Encryption and Rights Management 7.2 Future Adoptions Is there potential for this standard (in part or in whole) to be adopted by another national, regional, or international organization? Do not know at this time If Yes, the following questions must be answered: Technical Committee Name and Number: Other Organization Contact Information: Contact person: Contact Email address: 7.3 Will this project result in any health, safety, security, or environmental guidance that affects or applies to human health or safety? No If yes, please explain: 7.4 Additional Explanatory Notes: (Item Number and Explanation) 8.1 Sponsor Information: Is the scope of this project within the approved scope/definition of the Sponsor's Charter? Yes If no, please explain: <hr size=1 width="100%" noshade color="#9d9da1" align=center> Contact the NesCom Administrator <mailto:nescom-admin@ieee.org> ________________________________ From: Victor Berman [mailto:victorb@improvsys.com] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:10 AM To: Werner Kathy-R65610 Subject: RE: PAR approval It actually has a number assigned already. It is P1735, Recommended Practice for Design Intellectual Property (IP) Encryption and Rights Management So you can refer to as SG P1735 etc. Thanks, Victor <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabIndex=-1> From: Werner Kathy-R65610 [mailto:kathy.werner@freescale.com] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:48 AM To: Victor Berman Subject: RE: PAR approval No problem. Do I just refer to it as the Encryption Study Group? <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabIndex=-1> From: Victor Berman [mailto:victorb@improvsys.com] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:46 AM To: Werner Kathy-R65610 Subject: RE: PAR approval Kathy, Do you mind if we include the encryption work? I realize it is still unformed but I think it is easier to include it and it does not really have any impact on us. Thanks, Victor <HRsize=2 width="100%" align=center tabIndex=-1> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
