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Minutes of DATC Executive Committee, June 19, 2001
he meeting attendees were:
oe Damore opened the meeting at 7:45 PM.
The meeting was held at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas.
As seen above, we had a good representation of Executive Committee
Members.
oe began the meeting by reviewing the Agenda.
AGENDA
DATC Executive Committee Meeting
June 19, 2001
7:30 PM @ Riviera Hotel - Buffet Dinner Meeting
Chair - Joe Damore - 20 Minutes
Past Chair - Charlie Rosenthal - 10 Minutes
John Willis - 15 Minutes
Justin Harlow - "Benchmarks Status" - 10 Minutes
Steve Grout or Naresh Sehgal - EDPS Report - 10 Minutes
Yervant Zorian - D & T EIC Selection, DATE Surplus and DATC - 10 Minutes
Gordon Adshead - DATE - 10 Minutes
Other Subcommittee Activity/Inactivity
New Fields - SOC, MEMS, Formal Verification - Charlie Rosenthal - 10 Minutes
Closing - Joe Damore - 5 Minutes
oe was first on the agenda and
presented the treasurer's report. Our approved budget is $10,000
dollars for 2001 and to-date we have spent $3,000 of it for travel, to a
TAB meeting and DAC and support for a C++ meeting. The next subject was
MOSIS and although we all agreed to contribute to MOSIS ($5,000) as we
did last year, Joe Damore has the assignment to look into the progress
made by MOSIS to migrate research to industry. There is some question
concerning legal or IP work. Joe Damore will will look into MOSIS to
determine again if our MOSIS funding, which is a significant part of our
budget, is apropos.
oe then continued with discussion
about the Design and Test Newsletter Column and again complained of
getting no input from key Subcommittee and Excom members to write a
substantive column. All present agree that they will attempt to be more
timely with input which could be applicapble. I mentioned negative
comments about our Newsletter received from a reader in Belarus. Someone
suggested asking him to contribute as an editor and tell us about DA in
Belarus. I'll attempt it as time permits.
he next subject was Web pages.
Again Joe stated that he needs input. I asked if anyone was reading the
pages and did not get too many affirmatives. I announced that I would
insert a counter to see how many times our Web pages are accessed. One
member suggested linking to EDA.org and other research links. I agreed
to do that and a research link I will start with will be IBM Research's.
It's a neat page and will make a fine link.
oe then turned to some old business.
Two subcommittees have had zero activity. One, "Fault Sim" was led by
Todd DeLong but Todd is no longer in that role. The other, "JAVA and
VHDL" was led by Judith Benzakki and as of this writing, Dr. Benzakki is
no longer in that role. Volunteers were asked for but there were no
takers. Even when the idea of expanding JAVA and VHDL to include C++,
noone volunteered to head the subcommittee. I shall therefore put those
two subcommittes in abeyance.
he next subject was General Updates.
Steve Grout was elected Chair Elect and will succede me. Rajeesh Gupta
was chosen as the next Editor in Chief of Design & Test Magazine.
Congratulations to Rajeesh and to Yervant Zorian, many, many thanks for
a job well done.
oe then closed his portion of the agenda by voicing some of his concerns.
Everyone present is thinking about answers.
he next person on the agenda was
Past Chair Charles Rosenthal. Charlie began by discussing the William
McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award. We have put funds into our budgetto
cover our portion of the award and Charlie wanted to be certain that the
Chair handles sending the funds. Joe Damore agreed to do whatever needs
to be done.
harlie then went on to report about
the Technical Activities Board meeting (TAB) which was held in Seattle
on May 23, 2001. Charlie represented DATC there. Some of the salient
points included:
harlie then discussed the three
areas some of us in the Excom felt were of key importance. They included:
harlie then led a discussion on
possible names to head up subcommittees dealing with these key areas.
Charlie will pursue the name mentioned for SOC and John Willis felt he
had someone in mind for MEMS and Signal INtegrity and would pursue them.
Joe Damore mentioned Formal Verification as another key area and offered
to pursue someone to chair such a subcommittee.
harlie concluded his segment with a
proposal to amend the Charter to assign the task of "Liason with other
Organizations " to the Past Chair, "Responsibilities for Subcommittees "
to the Chair Elect and " All the rest of the Duties " to the Chair. We
all agreed and Charlie is pursuing it and composing the amendment.
ohn Willis was next to speak. He addressed three points:
With respect to " VHDL RF/MW Initiative ", John would like to apply for a standard. He plans to submit a PAR. With regards to the next point, " High Performance Simulation ", John felt that a lot of effort is going on with simulation and more effort on our part would appear to be redundant. With regards to the last point, " SIG-DL ", he felt that the advocacy group of VHDL should consider a SIG-VHDL. No action is planned on this suggestion at present.
ustin Harlow was next and discussed
Benchmarks. I have included his presentation as Attachment a.
ndrew Kahng representing the
Electronic Design Process (EDP) Subcommittee was the next speaker. He
was very upbeat on EDP and mentioned that the recently completed
workshop was very well attended. He and the rest of the leaders of EDP
are hopeful of coming up with a plan to keep the core community in tact
and try to grow it. He had some concern about competing with ISQED.
Andrew will be Chair ofEDP next year. THere are also questions about
co-sponsorship to be talked out. Andrew felt that his biggest concern
is lining up future EDP subcommittee workers.
ervant Zorian was next and opened
his discussion with the announcement of Rajeesh Gupta as the new Editor
In Chief of Design and Test magazine. Yervant alluded to Rajeesh having
a busy workload ahead ssince D & T is now published 6 times a year as
opposed to 4 times a year. For the coming year there are six special
issues planned of which five will deal with design and one with test.
Yervant went on to elaborate on all the editorial sections of Design and
Test and the interaction with the DATC. We all wish Rajeesh the best.
Yervant also discussed the building of virtual communities and will
investigate with Justin Harlow to see if virtual commiunities and
Benchmarking could gel.
ervant then went on to bring us up
to date on DATE. Design, Automation and Test Europe (DATE) is growing
very fast. They are achieving record numbersat conferences. Although
we are supposed to reap some rewards for sponsoring DATE, we have
received 0 so far. I will check into that. Yervant went on to say that
two new groups are requesting to be sponsors of DATE also, ACM's SIG-DA
and IFIPS. This would further dilute our returns if we were to actually
get some returns. Gordon Adshead could not stay for the DATC Excom
Meeting since he had a conflict with SIG-DA but if he were there he
would have gotten the assignment to look into all the DATE questions
including what does DATC do for DATE. I will follow up with Gordon.
motion was made and accepted to
commend Yervant for a job well don as Editor in Chief of Design and
Test. The motion was seconded and approved by all.
lex Zamfirescu was next on the
agenda to discuss "XML in Design Automation" and gave me a
very complete presentation in HTML. You may view this very complete and
excellent presentation (Attachment b.) but
you may wish to contact Alex directly for more information concerning
his study of XML.
lec Stanculescu then discussed
simulation and the increasing speeds of simulators. He went into the
high acceptance of compute farms and their growing use. They certainly
are on the scene for simulation in DA as well as for gnome studies.
oe Damore then closed the meeting at
10:45 PM. Thank you all attendees for your participation
Submitted by Joe Damore