IEEE DASC Co-Sponsorship of UPF Working Group Proposal prepared by: Stephen Bailey Chair, Accellera UPF Technical Subcommittee

2 Agenda Request for DASC co-sponsorship of WG Background of UPF-TSC UPF from start to finish IEEE and Accellera relationship Working group IEEE Timeline

Background for UPF-TSC

4 Industry Need Power has become the dominate factor in the design of today’s electronic systems –Explosion in battery operated systems –Many (most) non-portable designs are also constrained by power consumption requirements Heat generation and dissipation Practical power supply & management Current state is a hodge-podge of commercial and ad hoc solutions –SAIF, GAF, etc. –Specification of power aware design characteristics Often done late at gate-level and ad hoc –Need to verify correctness of power-aware functionality –Done sooner and with higher correlation to design intent

5 Demonstrated Need DAC 2006: –TI and Nokia organized a meeting on the topic of an open standard for low power design flows –The 4 top EDA vendors attended Plus Atrenta –Broad, significant user representation including TI Nokia ARM ST Philips Sun –Shrenik Mehta represented Accellera Demand for Open, Fast, Inclusive standard

6 Mission of Accellera Low Power Flow TSC The accelerated development of an open, comprehensive standard for the specification of power-aware requirements, design intent and implementation, verification and analysis across all design abstraction levels.

7 Proposed Timeline Week OfMilestone 28 Aug 06Accellera TSC formation 11 Sep 06Accellera/Si2 Sponsored Workshop 18 Sep 06Design Objectives Document; Weekly meetings start 30 Oct 06First drafts available for review 30 Nov 06Submission to Accellera Board for Approval 31 Jan 07Hand-off to IEEE and/or other suitable standards organizations

UPF from Start to Finish August 28, 2006 – January 23, 2007

9 Actual Timeline Week OfMilestone 28 Aug 06Accellera TSC formation 18 Sep 06Frequent telecon and face-to-face meetings commence 25 Sep 06Design Objectives Document 05 Oct 06Accellera/Si2 Sponsored Workshop 23 Oct 06All donations accepted 6 Dec 06Prospective UPF WG previewed at CAG meeting 27 Dec 06First draft available for review

10 Actual Timeline Week OfMilestone 19 Jan 07Final draft available for review 23 Jan 07Final draft completion 23 Jan 07Accellera TSC approval 24 Jan 07Submission to Accellera Board for Approval 26 Jan 07Proposal for DASC co-sponsorship P 9 Feb 07Submit PAR for NesCom consideration P 22 Feb 07Accellera Board approval of UPF P 23 Mar 07NesCom approval; Accellera UPF donation to IEEE P = planned

11 Highlights Openness demonstrated throughout –Everyone invited and allowed to participate in TSC Accellera membership not required to join –Documents available to all TSC members Fast –Merely 5 months from start to finish Inclusive –Unprecedented donations from 8 companies –EDA suppliers and users donated –Members and non-members of Accellera

IEEE and Accellera Relationship

13 Accellera and IEEE Accellera has long-standing relationship with IEEE Accellera Technical Committee Policies, Procedures, & Guidelines: –All established Accellera standards are eventually planned for IEEE standardization to speed worldwide acceptance of such standards. –Specification format, strawman donation and any other ownership documents follow or exceed IEEE rules and guidelines. Plan of record is to transfer UPF to IEEE when complete Since inception of IEEE Corporate Standards Program, Accellera Board recommends all standards be entity- based –SystemVerilog, PSL, OCI, UPF

CAG/DASC UPF Working Group

15 UPF Working Group –Submit draft PAR to DASC Chair for SC review and comment NLT 31 Jan 07 –Sponsor PAR jointly with CAG Draft PAR presented to CAG ~6 Feb 07 –Entity-based –Open to everyone –Initial WG chair: Stephen Bailey Conduct elections within DASC required 6 month period for all WG officers –Follow prior precedent of operating procedures for jointly sponsored WGs

IEEE Timeline

17 IEEE Timeline DateMilestone 26 Jan 07DASC approval of co-sponsorship (With opportunity of SC to comment on PAR before CAG consideration) 06 Feb 07CAG approval of joint sponsorship for PAR 09 Feb 07PAR submission 22 Mar 07NESCOM approval of PAR 23 Mar 07Formation of working group and call for contributions

Request approval of DASC-SC for UPF Working Group Co-Sponsorship Thank you!

19 On Convergence The UPF WG is willing: –To accept more than one technology donation –Provide the forum for converging multiple industry formats into a single standard –Change the name of the resulting standard Conditions: –Only one: All donations for consideration must be submitted quickly