I invite you to become a member of the balloting group for IEEE P1481,
Draft Standard for Integrated Circuit (IC) Delay and Power Calculation
System. A ballot form to be returned to the IEEE can be found at
http://dasc.org/dpc/www/Ballot.PDF.
SCOPE AND PURPOSE
The scope of the standard is to define a methodology for delay and power
calculation for integrated circuit design. The purpose of this work is
to provide a standard system for integrated circuit designers to
consistently calculate chip delay and power across Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) applications and for integrated circuit vendors to
express delay and power information only once per technology while
enabling sufficient EDA application accuracy.
BALLOTER’S RESPONSIBILITY
If you choose to be part of the balloting group, you will have 60 days
to review and respond to the draft. In order for the sponsor ballot to
be valid, at least 75% of the ballots sent must be returned by the
specified date. For that reason, voters have an obligation to respond.
BALLOTING PERIOD
At the current time, the working group plans to have a draft prepared
for ballot by the end of the first quarter 1998. The balloting period
will occur approximately one month after this date and last for a 60-day
period. Please supply the correct mailing address for this time. Please
do not join the balloting group if you will be unavailable during this
period.
DOCUMENT SIZE
This project is currently over 400 pages long. Time should be planned to
be able to review such a large document thoroughly.
WORKING GROUP INFORMATION
If you would like to keep current with the development work of the
working group, you may monitor activities at http://dasc.org/dpc/. You
may subscribe to the Delay and Power Calculation special interest group
email reflector by sending an email message to majordomo@dasc.org and in
the body of the message type:
subscribe dpc-list <your email address>
Should you have any questions, please contact me at your earliest
convenience.
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Brophy, Chair
dennisb@dasc.org
-- Dennis B. Brophy mailto:dennis_brophy@mentorg.com Standards Program Manager phone: +1-503-685-1415 Mentor Graphics Corporation fax: +1-503-685-1268