IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of August 9, 2010

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx

• Not Attending
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • Jim Robinson, Synopsys
  • NSS Subramanian, Cadence
  • David Tran, Synopsys

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 07/26/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Inter-operability Issues
8. License Management
9. Key Management
10. Rights Management
11. Work Plan
12. Other Business
13. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 4/5 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 Dave C. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

John moved and Ray seconded the approval of the July 26, 2010 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Inter-operability

John moved and Ray seconded a resolution of endorsement from P1735 for the text of SV Mantis 2948. The motion approved.

John will finalize the Mantis submission, and Steven will add a note conveying the P1735 endorsement.

John reviewed the responses to his Visibility Management proposal. He is still working through some of the input. He noted that obfuscation may be needed to balance requirements to report information while still needing to protect the underlying data.

The working group discussed the challenges of working with protected designs as input to place and route. Encryption-based protection began with simulation, and synthesis and other transformative tools are currently evolving, but the challenges of place&route are still unaddressed. Most of the difficulties seem to derive from lack of visibility across the protection boundaries.

License Management

Key Management

Rights Management

Steven reviewed his progress on a rights management discussion framework.

John noted that we really lack an IP user perspective to balance the IP Producer and Tool Vendor influence in defining rights management. As an example, private rights can disenfranchise the IP user through lack of competition. Disclosure that private rights are in force might be a way to put more balance into the market.

Work Plan

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for August 23, 2010 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 08/09/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability Issues
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Rights Management
12. Work Plan
13. Other Business
14. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Ray, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 16:30UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the August 23, 2010 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 2010-08-23