IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of October 1, 2008

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Webex

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • John Shields, Mentor

• Not Attending
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Jim Robinson, Synopsys
  • NSS Subramanian, Cadence
  • David Tran, Synopsys
  • Gary Delp, LSI

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 9/17/2008
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. License Management
8. Key Management Issues
9. Other Business
10. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 4/4 eligible entities, and have a working quorum.

Patent Policy

The Patent slides were offered for review.

No new claims were disclosed at the call for essential patent claims.

Agenda Approval

Motion by John, seconded by Michael. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

John. moved and Michael seconded the approval of the September 17, 2008 minutes. Nick abstained, and the motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

VHDL with encryption support has been approved (conditional) at RevCom.

License Management

Michael described the progress he had made on securing the call into a dynamic library using encryption protocols. The group discussion converged on solving that dynamic library call security problem so that the actual license management could remain the responsibility of the IP authors or their suppliers.

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Key Management Issues

Steven reported on Nitin's progress in researching certificate algorithms available through open source implementations.

Other Business

Michael asked about digital signatures, or digests, in the VHDL and Verilog standards. We should consider recommendations about where and when such digests should be used.

Adjournment

Motion by Bill, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 1:04 pm CDT

Approval

These minutes were approved at the October 8, 2008 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 08 Oct 2008