IEEE P1500

S. Bhawmik (sudipta@mach.pr.lucent.com)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:47:07 -0500

Hi,
I'm Sudipta Bhawmik (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies). I came to know
of this effort (DC-WG) from my colleague David W. Potter.
Looking at the charter and objectives of this group, I thought
it might be appropriate to sensitize the members of this group
about the IEEE P1500 standardization effort (I'm sure though that
many of you are already aware of this effort). The objectives of
IEEE P1500 is to develop standards for IP core test control and access
mechanism and a standard core test description language. Since
Test and Testability is a major component of a design intent, I think
there exists enough common ground between DC-WG and IEEE P1500.
I am specially concerned about the two parallel language development
efforts which can either result in lot of redundancy or force the
designers to create separate descriptions for design intent/constraints
and test/testability.
In order to avoid this problem, I think DC-WG and P1500 should talk to
each other and establish a liasoning process to avoid duplicacy and/or
conflicts. P1500 has already an estabished liasoning with VSIA.

For more information about IEEE P1500 visit
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1500/

Hope this helps.

Sudipta Bhawmik
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Princeton, NJ
bhawmik@lucent.com
609 639-2372