RE: Notice to International Members

Brian,

Unfortunately, it is often difficult for me to be able to attend the phone
calls. I also have trains / trafic and other issues. I appreciated the
availability of the recordings, it has the advantage of providing an exact
and complete report of the discussion even if the sound quality is
depreciated differently than on a phone.
My intent is to go on being aware of all what is happening inside the
committee and also to provide ST point of view when critical technical
choices are made. 
On our side, there is the need that the EDA vendors support and continue to
support SCEMI 1.1 while in the mean time look at improving the easiness of
using co-emulation defing SCEMI 2.0. The main constraints are to preserve
the compatibility and the mix of SCEMI 1.1 and 2.0, and not to impose people
to use DPI and/or verilog. ST has promoted and invested a lot on the SCEMI
1.1 interface (in term of tools and methodologies), its evolution must not
mean "forget 1.1 as EDA vendors will only work onto 2.0".

Regards,

Joseph Bulone

HW emulation manager

PS: I do not want to impose hard timing constraints for the attendees but it
seems for me difficult to conciliate
- meeting both each one expectation (defining a clear/interesting standard
or having a compatible/usable standard) which does not imply the same level
of implication in the discussions
- the practical/professional/personal constraints
- the voting rules
I do not know how to solve this issue at once, but all proposals are
welcome.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-itc@eda.org [mailto:owner-itc@eda.org] On Behalf Of Brian Bailey
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:12 PM
To: itc@eda.org
Subject: Notice to International Members


A few months ago, the committee wanted to do things that would make the ITC
standards meetings more accessible to our international members,
particularly those in Europe. We instituted two changes for their benefit.
The first was a move of the meeting time from 9am pacific time to 8am. The
second was to start recording the calls, so that could be reviewed at a
later time. Since these policies were put in place, we have still not had a
single European member participate in one of the calls. Some of the people
who do participate on the call are undergoing some hardship to make this
earlier time, such as having to deal with much worse traffic conditions in
their areas.

We would thus like to hear if any of the European members do intend to make
use of the earlier time, or if we should revert back to the previous time.
If I do not hear from anyone within a two week period, or if no
participation happens on the calls, then we will switch back. I would also
like to hear if anyone is listening to the call recordings to know if this
is a worthwhile effort.

Best regards
Brian