IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of October 22, 2008

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Webex

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys

• Not Attending
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • 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 10/8/2008
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 Karlton, seconded by Dave C. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Michael moved and John seconded the approval of the October 8, 2008 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items. Need a new owner for Identity & Trust Model discussion seed.

Liaison Reports

John reiterated 1076 progress, now unconditionally approved as IEEE Std1076-2008. There is still an open question whether the published document will be available for sale before the end of the year. P1800 has been finalized for ballot and the ballot period is expected to start in a few weeks. The target for approval is by mid-2009.

License Management

There is some concern about the characterizations of static vs dynamc licensing. That discussion needs Dave Graubart's participation. John asked whether Static and Dynamic license implementations are mutually exclusive, or if they could coexist. The consensus is that they should be able to coexist.

Another open issue is whether the current tool license verification spec is sufficient to ensure a valid license is available. Do we require the tool to check at the appropriate process points and with the necessary frequency.

Karlton asked about the distinction between the models. The conclusion was that static/internal licensing has practical portability problems with IP feature string availability from multiple tools. The dynamic/external approach resolves that problem, though a re-design of the pragma syntax could allow one-of-N feature strings to solve the portability issue. John also reviewed the business model differences between the two approaches.

Key Management Issues

Nitin reported no substantive progress since the last meeting.

Other Business

Adjournment

Motion by Michael, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 1:10 pm CDT

Approval

These minutes were approved at the October 29, 2008 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 29 Oct 2008