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This is to announce that a series of workshops will be held on the Chip
Hierarchical Design System (CHDS) Technical Data (CHDStd) draft standard.
CHDStd Workshops are being given in order to help designers and EDA
professionals understand what CHDStd is, what it is targeted at, and how
it can be applied to EDA systems.
The purpose of the workshops is also to get industry ready to review the
CHDStd draft standard as the CHDStd standard goes through upcoming SI2,
IEEE, and IEC standardization review cycles.
What is CHDStd?
- A common design model representation standard and access definition for
use in the design of large complex integrated circuits (chips) (28M
transistors or more) designed for 0.25u - 0.18u and below technologies,
being designed by large, multi-team design organizations.
- Is based on a proven API design representation base technology that is
in use for leading edge chip designs by IBM and that has been transferred
to SI2 from IBM.
- Is being developed by and is jointly sponsored SEMATECH and SI2.
- An Application Procedure Interface (API) (software) call-based standard.
- Is a key part of the CHDS advanced chip design system being developed
for SEMATECH and its member companies by Synopsys, Lucent Technologies
(formerly Bell Labs), Cadence Cooper and Chyan Technology, OEA
International, Ultima Interconnect Technology. (SEMATECH member companies
include AMD, Digital Equipment Corporation, HP, IBM, Intel, Lucent
Technologies, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Rockwell, and Texas
Instruments)
Downloadable initial CHDStd Draft Standard/Specification:
The complete text of the Draft CHDStd Specifications is available in PDF
(Adobe Acrobat) format (with the exception of the EXPRESS-G of the
Operational Model which is in PostScript format) and available as two
downloadable .ZIP files.
Introduction and Express
http://www.si2.org/design/CHDStd/ZIP/CHDStd_DOC2.zip
APIs
http://www.si2.org/design/CHDStd/ZIP/CHDStd_DOC1.zip
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CHDStd workshops will be at the following locations and times:
10/23/97 - EIA Headquarters, 2500 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201-3834,
at 5:30pm to 8:30pm, just following the EDA Standards Roadmap kickoff
industry meeting.
10/24/97 - Intermetrics, 1595 Spring Hill Rd., Suite 600, Vienna, VA
22182, at 1:00pm to 4:00pm, as part of the IEEE DASC meetings being held
there.
11/9/97 - Doubletree Inn (formerly Red Lion Inn), San Jose, CA., at 1:00pm
to 5:00pm, the Sunday before ICCAD-97.
Further on, the following additional CHDStd workshop meetings will be held:
2/10/98 - Tokohama, JP, co-located with ASP-DAC-98. Specific date,
time, and location to be announced later.
2/24/98 - Paris, FR, co-located with DAT-E-98. Specific date, time, and
location to be announced later.
For more information, contact one of the following:
Don Cottrell, 512-342-2244 (X22), cottrell@si2.org
Steve Grout, 512-356-7071, steve.grout@sematech.org
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