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IEEE Low Power FormatStudy Group

4 April 2007Meeting

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Attendees

Dennis Brophy, Mentor DRA Jim Sproch, Synopsys DR Herve Menager, NXP DR Judith Richardson, NXP DRA Karen Bartleson, Accellera DR Yatin Trivedi, Magma DR Andrew Saunders, Magma DRA Arvind, Magma DRA Maryann White, Virage Logic DR Oscar Siguenza, Virage Logic DRA Joe Daniels, Self David Hathaway, IBM DR Gary Delp, LSI DR Minh Chau, TI DR Rolf Lagerquist, TI DRA Bhannu Kapoor, ArchPro DR Kathy Werner, Freescale DR Milind Padhye, Freescale DRA Jay Oak, Intel DR John Biggs, ARM DR

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Agenda

Call to order Roll Agenda Approval

Dennis moved to approve agenda Gary seconded No objections, agenda approved

IEEE Patent Policy Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

Status of Action Items

Copyright and technical contribution statement (Gary Delp)

Create the Technical Work Plan(Note:  We are not resolving these issues as part of this agenda item, only identifying them.)

Schedule (Start at 3pm)

Organization Subgroups to work specific areas/issues? Ability to have user-only caucus/sub-group to resolve issues from a user-perspective without

EDA vendor influence. Likewise, EDA vendors ability to meet to discuss implementability of user-requirements

without user influence.

AOB

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Instructions for the WG Chair At Each Meeting, the Working Group Chair shall: Show slides #1 and #2 of this presentation Advise the WG membership that:

The IEEE’s patent policy is consistent with the ANSI patent policy and is described in Clause 6 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws;

Early disclosure of patents which may be essential for the use of standards under development is encouraged;

Disclosures made of such patents may not be exhaustive of all patents that may be essential for the use of standards under development, and that neither the IEEE, the WG, nor the WG Chairman ensure the accuracy or completeness of any disclosure or whether any disclosure is of a patent that, in fact, may be essential for the use of standards under development.

Instruct the WG Secretary to record in the minutes of the relevant WG meeting: That the foregoing advice was provided and the two slides were

shown; That an opportunity was provided for WG members to identify or

disclose patents that the WG member believes may be essential for the use of that standard;

Any responses that were given, specifically the patents and patent applications that were identified (if any) and by whom.

(Not necessary to be shown) Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – March 2003 (Revised February 2006)

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6. Patents

IEEE standards may include the known use of essential patents and patent applications provided the IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder or applicant with respect to patents whose infringement is, or in the case of patent applications, potential future infringement the applicant asserts will be, unavoidable in a compliant implementation of either mandatory or optional portions of the standard [essential patents]. This assurance shall be provided without coercion. The patent holder or applicant should provide this assurance as soon as reasonably feasible in the standards development process. This assurance shall be provided no later than the approval of the standard (or reaffirmation when a patent or patent application becomes known after initial approval of the standard). This assurance shall be either:

a) A general disclaimer to the effect that the patentee will not enforce any of its present or future patent(s) whose use would be required to implement either mandatory or optional portions of the proposed IEEE standard against any person or entity complying with the standard; or

b) A statement that a license for such implementation will be made available without compensation or under reasonable rates, with reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination.

This assurance is irrevocable once submitted and accepted and shall apply, at a minimum, from the date of the standard’s approval to the date of the standard’s withdrawal.

IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards

Slide #1 Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – March 2003 (Revised February 2006)

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Inappropriate Topics for IEEE WG Meetings

Don’t discuss the validity/essentiality of patents/patent claims Don’t discuss the cost of specific patent use

Don’t discuss licensing terms or conditions

Don’t discuss product pricing, territorial restrictions, or market share

Don’t discuss ongoing litigation or threatened litigation

Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed… do formally object.

If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html

This slide set is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

Slide #2

Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – March 2003 (Revised February 2006)

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Approval of 27 Mar 07 Meeting Minutes& Action Item Review

Minutes Dennis moved to approve minutes Gary seconded No objects, minutes approved

Action Item (Steve Bailey): Begin discussions with IEEE on WG budget Nothing to report Edward Rashba at DATE

Action Item (Gary Delp & Yatin Trivedi): Stock letter to associations requesting them to identify their DR and priority list of 0 or more DRAs. Also, recommend wording for any Procedure section to reflect the allowance of associations to specify priority of individuals acting as association representation in WG.

Done (Letter) No proposed changes for P&Ps at this time

Action Item (Karen Bartleson): Organize IEEE representative to discuss new IEEE patent policy and the procedures for handling essential patents related to a proposed standard. Schedule for April, not week of 16 Apr (DATE).

Edward Rashba agreed. David Ringle will also participate Last week of April, targeting Tues, 24 April (AM)

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Copyrights and technical contributions

All contributions are assumed, and will be assumed to be clear with respect to copyrights. This is in keeping with all IEEE study group and working group practice.

It is the intention of the group to keep any previously copyrighted work which has not been transferred to IEEE out of the standard.

Anyone reviewing the work is requested to point out as soon as possible any language that may be covered under another copyright.

It is possible to write fresh text describing a variety of features without violating the copyright of previous descriptions.

Presentations/Information/email to the group should not be labeled as “confidential.”

Automatic additions of “confidential” to email should include a disclaimer of the addition.

Any information sent to the email reflector will be considered non-confidential.

IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer), always check with yours.

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Attendance requirement A two day meeting will count as 2

meetings for attendance, but only as 1 day for absence.

Observers may attend any meeting following the principles of openess. They may not participate in votes,

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Create Technical Work Plan Note:  We are not resolving these issues as part of this agenda

item, only identifying them and getting an initial assessment of priority

Jim Sproch: Identify UPF 1.0 errata

(spec fixes that should not be controversial) Identify UPF 1.0 sections requiring more work

(questions on semantic & functional completeness of what is already in the 1.0 spec -- items requiring more thorough investigation and potential consensus building to resolve)

Gary Delp / David Hathaway Presentation of LPC comparison committee’s results

Jim Sproch: Identify functional enhancements

(Steve or designate)(capabilities currently missing in UPF 1.0 but highly desired)

Anyone: Open floor for any requests not previously covered

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Action Items/Notes

AI: Bug tracking system to use for errata, enhancement requests, etc.

Mantis: AI: Gary volunteered to do initial investigation and

administration Collaboration environment? Just use email server

Additional requests from discussion Association of corruption value to power state or state

transitions Precedence of corruption (Jim’s Verif 2 of 5 slide) Jim’s Verif 3 of 5 slide: Ability to associate VCT for

power or ground on a library basis OR Need to better abstract out supply state from logic/electrical state

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Schedule

Target completion date Note: Entity-based standards are expected to complete within

2 years (an upper bound)

Milestones Errata ready 1 May for distribution & review Enhancement prioritization ready 8 May for distribution &

review Revision scope: 15 May Donations & requirements cut-off: 14 Jun Final revision scope: 2 Jul

Planned F2F and telecon meetings 15 May, Magma in SJ 7 Jun, Thursday afternoon (1pm) UPF Meeting San Diego Sep TBD (Europe? Barcelona with FDL?)

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Organization

NOTE: All IEEE meetings are open to all User (or vendor) initiated ad hoc committees or subgroup meetings

cannot exclude anyone from attending or participating. But the purpose of the committee or meeting can be made clear

Subgroups to work specific areas/issues? Gary to lead enhancement prioritization Jim will request Renu to lead errata effort

P&Ps Decisions Chair & Vice-Chair Attendance requirements (to be able to vote)

Maintain voting membership by attending 2 of 3 meetings To re-establish attend 2 consecutive meetings, voting rights resumed at 3rd

meeting) WG can approve exceptions 2 (or more) F2F meetings counts as a bonus meeting (2 meetings attended)

but missing a multi-day F2F counts as missing only a single meeting See edited draft P&Ps

Treasurer responsibilities assigned to secretary