Subject: The world after SCE-API 1.0
From: Bailey, Brian (brian_bailey@mentorg.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 11:27:56 PDT
Hi Everyone,
Now that our first phase of work has been completed, it is time to start putting in place the plans for the future. It appears as if all of our members are wanting to get started since I have now heard of four possible technology donations to our work. This brings up some issues, questions and the need to have a meeting to bring everyone up to the same page.
There are a number of possibilities that may arise with the donations. The first is that all four of the donations are complementary and either build upon the existing standard or can stand beside it. That would make our job very easy. The second possibility is that some of these potential donations overlap with each other or the existing specification. This is where things start to get interesting. Accellera has tried three ways in the past to deal with this. These are:
1) Accept all donations and pick one as the base and incorporate features from others
2) Accept all donations and architect a solution from all submissions
3) Accept only non-competing donations (first to donate wins)
Before we get into the technical or politics of what the donations are, I would like to get a gauge of how people feel about these choices, or proposals for new ways that we should do the work. I would like to start this discussion on the reflector and then follow up with a telecon next week. I would propose either Thursday or Friday (19,20). If anyone has a problem with these dates please let me know.
Regards
Brian
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Brian Bailey brian_bailey@mentor.com
Chief Technologist Tel: 503 685 1371
Design Verification and Test Division Fax: 503 685 1652
Mentor Graphics Corp. 8005 S.W. Boeckman Rd. Wilsonville, OR 97070
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