Re: IEEE P1500

Osseiran Adam (osseiran@eig.unige.ch)
Wed, 01 Apr 1998 14:11:05 +0100

S. Bhawmik wrote:
>
> 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.

Hello,

I am Adam Osseiran from the Engineering Institute of Geneva-Switzerland.
I attended the last DC-WG meeting in santa Clara and made on it a simple
information report for the European companies belonging to VSIA through
ECSI (European CAD Standardization Initiative) VSIA representative in
Europe.
Minutes of the meeting are also available on the net. Marc Hahn (DC-WG
chair) created the DC-WG site:
http://www.vhdl.org/dcwg/
I will try to present what I know of the DC-WG at the next P1500 WG
meeting at VTS in Monterey next may 1st.
I guess that harmonization of efforts should be benefical to all
parties.

Regards,

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