Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Accellera Status Report
3. Accellera Organization
4. Elections Report
5. Chair Status/Election
6. Activities
7. Plans/vision/brainstorming
8. Conclusions/Next Meeting
The meeting was run by Greg Peterson. After a brief lunch and introductions, the meeting began with a description of Accellera: it’s mission, organization, and the status of things since the merger between OVI and VI. Greg described the Accellera board as being composed of 15 positions, 14 of which were recently allocated to member companies. There are two ex-officio members of the board as well that include the chairs of the Technical Activities Group and the User’s Group, respectively. There was a lot of discussion regarding the purpose of Accellera and of the Accellera User’s Group (AUG).
Next, Greg opened the floor for nominations for a chairman of the AUG to be chosen from among the advisory board. Gabe Moretti was the lone nomination. Dave Barton moved to accept Gabe by acclamation. Alan Mantooth seconded. The vote was unanimous to accept Gabe as the new AUG Chairman. Gabe made a few comments regarding his stance on the focus of Accellera. He described his belief that the focus NOT be on tools, but rather on problems and solutions to those problems.
Worthy of note is that the members of the advisory board, led by Dave, acknowledged the outstanding efforts of Greg Peterson during the past year or so as things have transitioned from OVI/VI to Accellera.
Next, Greg led a discussion of current and potentially new AUG activities. Discussion centered around HDLCon, new Fall workshops, BMAS, and special interest groups (SIGs). A suggestion was made by Dave to compile a workshop kit consisting of information for chairmen of workshops to use as guides in preparing for a workshop. Examples of the materials would be:
Other discussion involved the current Accellera website
and it was stated that the advisory board would need to make a decision
about whether to run the AUG website ourselves or to request that Accellera
do it. Finally, Language Day, an Accellera-sponsored event held in conjunction
with the EDA front-to-back conference, was discussed (Sept. 26).
The final portion of the meeting centered on discussions of plans and visions for AUG. Greg was given the action to locate the VIUF bylaws as a starting point for AUG bylaws. Bob agreed to take the bylaws, if found, and revise them for consideration by the AUG and Accellera boards. Marcian indicated that he would investigate the possibility of hosting the AUG website at his university with a colleague of his.
Lastly, the next meeting was decided to be a tele-conference in late July.
Respectfully submitted,
Alan Mantooth