IEEE P1735 Draft Development Committee Meeting of May 6, 2013

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, (chair) Cadence DR
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys DR
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys DRA
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx DR
  • Devin Sundaram, Altera DRA
  • Jeff Fox, Altera DR
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys DRA
  • John Shields, Mentor DR

• Not Attending
  • Jarek Kaczynski, Aldec DR
  • Joe Daniels, P1735 Technical Editor
  • Krista Gluchoski, IEEE Professional Services
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys DRA
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Albert Chiang, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence DRA
  • David Pena, Cadence
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence DRA
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • David Tran, Synopsys

Agenda

1. Patent slides
2. Comment and Open Issue review
3. Adjourn

Minutes

Patent Policy

The Patent slides were offered for review.

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

Comment and Open Issue review

Dave raised the concern that Tool Secret key might be interpreted as a requirement. Additional rationale text and more clarity on whether use cases describe mandatory implementation effort would help to address that concern.

Dave discussed confusion on what requirements the subclause on keyrings might create. John suggested that keyrings are an abstract model to help put the standard exchange formats in context. He also suggested making the requirements more explicit for version 1 (inline keys only), vs version 2 (which requires both inline and certificates). Version 2 support could better leverage the keyring abstraction in its definition. Dave noted that the underlying concern is really whether tool vendors are required to deliver certificates.

Jeff asked how to reconcile requirements for preserving protection across transformation with the eventual need to render a design into a physical part. Steven noted that use rights are required to manage how protection requirements are resolved when IP are combined. John noted that while standard rights are still a ways off, tool-specific rights provide a way to resolve these concerns in the existing tool features.

Next Meeting

The next Draft Development Committee meeting is scheduled for May 20, 2013 at 16:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Patent slides
2. Comment and Open Issue review
3. Adjourn

Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 17:32UTC

Approval

These minutes are unapproved.

-- StevenDovich - 2013-05-06