Subject: Re[2]: Re[2]- Re[3]- EIA info f

From: Will Hobbs <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 08:45:36 PST

IBIS-ers,

Andy Graham, chairman of CFI will be joining us tomorrow to give us
an overview of CFI for our standards organization discussion.  I've
asked him to join us at 9:00 PDT (or earlier if he wants to listen
in).  Below is a summary of what CFI is.

"See" you tomorrow.

Will

CFI Mission:  Provide industry accepted standards and technology that enable 
interoperability of electronic design automation applications and data for 
end-users and suppliers worldwide.

Accomplishments:
- Staged prototype demonstrations involving 20+ companies 90-92 - Released first
balloted design representation PI standard 1/93 - Released first Developers 
toolkit 5/93
- Joined ARPA RASSP program to provide EDA standards 9/93 - Certified first DRPI
compliance 6/94

Membership:  40 companies worldwide (12 Japanese/7 European)
- all major semiconductor companies
- all major EDA vendors
- computer and telecommunications companies

Process:  Majority rule vote by company with appeal provision

Resources:  11 dedicated staff with 7K sq/ft facility and equipment

Capabilities:
- Technical publication
- Internet server for doc distribution, conferencing, reflectors
Mosaic home pages etc.
- Developer Toolkit development and distribution
- Certification test development and administration - Multicompany project 
management
- Finance, legal, and government contracts administration

Budget:  $2.2M in CY '94

Accreditation:  Filed under the National Cooperative Research Act along with 
other consortia such as Sematech and MCC.

Current activities:
- CFI Submicron interoperability project
- ASIC library standardization (timing and functional models) - ARPA RASSP 
program (involving many EDA vendors)
- OMF facilitation

Legal status:  Delaware membership owned corporation since 2/89

Governance:  11 member Board elected at large from membership 
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