FW: Invitation to Ballot for P1364.1


Subject: FW: Invitation to Ballot for P1364.1
From: Dennis Brophy (dennisb@Model.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 09:13:38 PST


-----Original Message-----
From: IEEE-SA Balloting Center [mailto:sa-ballot@ieee.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:49 AM
To: Jayaram Bhasker
Subject: Invitation to Ballot for P1364.1
Importance: High

                         Invitation to Ballot
                         ====================

The Computer Society/Design Automation Standards Committee
invites you to ballot on the following:

Title: Standard for Verilog Register Transfer Level Synthesis

Scope: To develop a standard syntax and semantics for Verilog RTL
synthesis. This standard shall define the subset of IEEE
1364 (Verilog HDL) which is suitable for RTL synthesis and
shall define the semantics of that subset for the synthesis
domain. This standard shall be based on the current
existing standard IEEE 1364.

Purpose: The purpose of this standard is to define syntax and
semantics which can be used in common by all compliant RTL
synthesis tools to achieve uniformity of results in a
similar manner to which simulation tools currently use the
IEEE 1364 standard. This will allow users of synthesis
tools to produce well-defined designs whose functional
characteristics are independent of any particular synthesis
implementation by making their designs compliant with this
developed standard.

If you are interested in participating in this electronic ballot, you must
respond by 2002-03-13, 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

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=============================================

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