Re: Result of VHDL-AMS election

CONGRATULATION TO THE NEW CHAIR!  AND THE TEAM OFFICERS WITH THE NEW CHAIR.
  
Ernst Christen <christen.1858@verizon.net> wrote:
  Dear members of the IEEE P1076.1 Working Group:

I would like to thank you first for your trust in electing me as the new chair
of the IEEE P1076.1 Working Group. I am looking forward to working with you
during my tenure to address new needs and requirements with the goal to further
the adoption of IEEE Std 1076.1.

Next, I would like to congratulate John Willis, Alain Vachoux and David Smith
for their election to office. I am looking forward to working with them to
guarantee a smooth operation of the Working Group.

Third, my thanks go to Peter Ashenden for acting as a Returning Officer for this
election.

Then, I would like to thank my predecessor Alain Vachoux for his leadership in
the standardization of VHDL-AMS. Alain has been chair of the Working Group
during the initial standardization in 1999 and again since 2005 for the revision
of 2007. His commitment is truly appreciated. As you know, Alain continues to
serve the WG as its secretary.

Finally, thanks also to Tom Kazmierski for his services as secretary of the WG.
Tom has served in this role since January 2005. Before that, he had been
serving as WG chair for several years.

As Peter mentioned in his email, the election of the chair and vice-chair must
be confirmed by the DASC. Once this has happened, the first action of the newly
constituted WG will be the adoption of revised Operating Procedures. A revision
of the current Operating Procedures, approved December 8, 2005, is necessary for
a variety of reasons, for example consistency issues that may have been
introduced by changes in the Operating Procedures of the DASC or IEEE-SA. I have
started an audit in this regard.

On the technical side, the WG continues to be responsible for IEEE Std 1076.1,
but has also taken on responsibility of the closely related IEEE Std 1076.1.1.
As you know, IEEE Std 1076.1-2007 has been approved this past spring, and the
revised LRM is now available from the IEEE. Looking forward, Alain has put in
place a process to manage proposals for new features in the two standards and
for new packages. You can find the relevant information as well as documents
related to several proposals at http://eda.org/vhdl-ams->Next Steps. At least
one additional proposal is forthcoming: support for partial differential
equations in VHDL-AMS, based on work done at the University of Southampton and
presented at FDL'07 by Tom Kazmierski.

In addition to these proposals, the language must continue to adapt to changes
in the base VHDL language defined by IEEE Std 1076. A new revision of VHDL with
a considerable amount of new functionality is expected to reach the balloting
phase next year. This revision includes, among other things, a methodology for
encryption-based IP protection. Since several WG members have indicated the
importance of encryption in VHDL-AMS, it behooves us to adopt this coming
revision of VHDL as the basis for a new revision of VHDL-AMS as soon as
possible.

As you can see, a lot of work lies ahead of us, and I encourage you to actively
participate in these projects. More information about how this may happen will
be forthcoming at a later time.

Thanks.
Ernst Christen
chair-elect, IEEE P1076.1 Working group
-- Ernst Christen, christen.1858@verizon.net on 11/29/2007

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