Proposal for OCP Specification - OCP-IP

OCP-IP
General Steering Committee Meeting
Santa Clara, CA
October 4, 2002
Attendees:
Ian Mackintosh – OCP-IP President
Anssi Haverinen - Nokia
Drew Wingard – Sonics
Mau Truong – UMC
Joe Basquez – VitalCom
Rich Baek – VTM
Reen Presnell – VTM
Barbara Oshiro – VTM
Jason Hewett – VTM
Teleconference:
Pete Cumming – TI
Agenda:
*Introductions/Agenda Review (Ian)
*Next GSC Meeting (Ian)
*SLD Study Group Update (Anssi)
*Technical Vision WG Update (Drew)
*Functional Verification WG Update (Pete)
*Specification Enhancements – Feedback, Comments, Timelines, and Support
Implications? (Drew)
*WG Long-Term Activity/Priorities (Drew)
*VSIA Proposal/Update (Ian)
*Action Item Review (VTM/Ian)
*Foundation Documents/Legal/Financial (Ian)
*PR Update (Scott)
*Collateral Review – CD/Lite Training/Press Clippings (VTM)
*Short-Term Recruiting (Joe)
*Long-Term Recruiting (VTM)
*Administrative Update (VTM)
Meeting began at 9:13 a.m. PDT.
Action Item Review:
AI: Ian will talk to Qualis, and others, about the value of sponsor membership so
they can join the WGs.
AI: Scott/Ian to shift focus of newsletters and press releases to adoption stories.
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AI: VTM to create a homepage link to adoption stories.
AI: Pete to review membership list and tell Ian who to invite as Sponsors.
(Comments: Advise that upgrade comes as a result of contributions --- trading work
for sponsor membership).
AI: VTM to post a notification in members only area that members providing
support to WGs may receive free upgrade to Sponsor level membership.
AI: Scott to look into tech-online Web postings.
AI: Have the membership roster page link to the OCP products page for that
member.
AI: VTM to survey OCP members to see if there are any OCP products that they
would like to feature.
AI: Call key member contacts and make them aware of the 2003 specification
revision and ask if they and their customers are ready for it.
AI: January GSC meeting should open the issue of how to propel OCP-IP to the
next level.
AI: Ian to develop a program on the deliverables that support the 2003 specification.
AI: Drew to talk to FSA IP Forum and tell them who we are.
AI: VTM to get collateral and presence at the VSIA booth for DesignCon.
AI: Drew committed to provide die photographs to use in future newsletter
graphics.
AI: Add electronic packets page to Web site, so prospects can download them.
Introductions:
Ian begins the meeting by introducing Mau Truong as the new UMC representative. At
this time, the agenda is reviewed by the GSC members.
Next GSC Meeting:
Anssi suggested that we hold the next GSC meeting sometime during the beginning of
November in New York. Pete cannot be in the US during the beginning of November but
suggested the 13 th or 14 th . GSC discussed the possibility of moving GSC meetings to
each quarter, rather than every six weeks. GSC decided to make their next meeting
November 14, 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts.
SLD Study Group Update:
Anssi said that the first SLD Study Group meeting since the last GSC meeting was held
yesterday, 10/3/02. The group has made some progress – the press release is in approval
for 10/15 release. They will have white paper ready 10/14, making lite because API is
being left out. The API is due at the beginning of January. The current version of API is
in use in Nokia so far.
Anssi needs some of Max’s time. They need one picture that he promised to draw for the
introduction section and also a review of the whole paper from the TI prospective. Anssi
emailed Max yesterday.
Franck needs to do a review; however Pete cannot commit Franck at this time. He is very
busy.
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The white paper will be posted on the Synopsys and OCP-IP Web sites. OCP-IP will
carry “Golden Copy.”
The models and the API code itself would be stored and owned by OCP-IP.
Sonics is a bit concerned about the contribution to OSCI. It would look more peer-topeer
if we note that Synopsys is contributing to OCP-IP as well.
GSC requests that Scott work into the press release the contribution from OSCI to OCP-
IP. Scott replies that the press release is set in stone.
When should we expect to have a WG? Anssi thinks that the WG should begin after they
release the first API. This issue was deferred until the January GSC meeting.
Technical Vision WG Update:
The Technical Vision WG has not met since last GSC meeting. They have focused all of
their attention on the specification revision. Drew will work on the summary document.
Further discussion of this issue was deferred until the November meeting.
Functional Verification WG Update:
The Functional Verification WG has met about five times. WG is making progress on
property checking.
Qualis presented their DVC in one of these meetings. We need to communicate with
Valiosys and Qualis on how to move forward. Should we invite them to the GSC every
six weeks and/or have them join the WG? GSC expressed interest in involving other
members in WGs.
Ian said that he would determine whether each member company could have more than
one representative in the WGs. The Technical Vision WG would decide what they want.
Pete wondered if we are talking to the right people about joining the WGs.
AI: Ian will talk to Qualis, and others, about the value of Sponsor membership so
they can join the WGs.
GSC has a discussion on adoption. We need to begin presenting adoption stories in the
newsletter.
AI: Scott/Ian to shift focus of newsletters and press releases to adoption stories.
AI: VTM to create a homepage link to adoption stories.
AI: Pete to review membership list and tell Ian who to invite as Sponsors.
(Comments: Advise that upgrade comes as a result of contributions --- trading work
for sponsor membership).
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AI: VTM to post a notification in members only area that members providing
support to WGs may receive free upgrade to Sponsor level membership.
AI: Scott to look into tech-online Web postings.
AI: Have the membership roster page link to the OCP products page for that
member.
AI: VTM to survey OCP members to see if there are any OCP products that they
would like to feature.
AI: Drew to clarify with David Courtright if sufficient review has been done within
MIPS on enhancement proposals.
We will now have the 2003 specification – do we want the Functional Verification WG
to start working on verifying that they are using 2003 version?
Who is going to make sure that the 2003 release is used in the new products? We should
inform our members that 2003 is coming out so they can start thinking about aligning
their new products.
Matrix – list tools and IP that support OCP that we know about, then rank how important
it is for them to be on the 2003 release, and then go out and make it happen.
AI: Call key member contacts and make them aware of the 2003 specification
revision and ask if they and their customers are ready for it.
We need to think about the vision for OCP-IP. How do we get to the next level? This is
something that the GSC should discuss at January meeting.
AI: January GSC meeting should open the issue of how to propel OCP-IP to the
next level.
Specification Enhancements:
Specification WG is passed the feedback period. TI needs to get their feedback in; they
will send to the reflector Monday.
The biggest drawback is in the drafting stage; Sonics will get out the first draft. It
appears that the specification will be issued at the end of January.
We should have first draft for member review at the end of the year.
AI: Ian to develop a program on the deliverables that support the 2003 specification.
Long-term activity discussion postponed until next month.
Joe arrived.
VSIA proposal outline:
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Ian has been working with Larry Cook. He proposed discussing what they have in
common (aligning them); he has no issue with giving VSIA members individual
membership. VSIA had a board meeting a few weeks ago, during dinner – they decided
that they wanted to entertain the idea of merging the two organizations.
Motorola, Alcatel, and Mentor appeared to be in favor of this possible merger. Infineon
and ARM were silent during the discussion.
Foils were presented by Ian outlining Larry Cook’s proposal.
What about a situation where OCP-IP becomes a recognized “user group”? OCP-IP’s
money, operation, and voting would all be separate. They will give VCI to OCP-IP and
have a membership fee scheme for exclusive and combined membership alternates.
VSIA would promote new structural vision.
What about other OCP-IP actions like the XML issue Pete is working on with Beach?
We are separate so we would determine our WG members.
What does it mean to be a VSIA user group? Ian offered that the principle is beneficial,
but the details concern us. Ian needs to know about what they don’t like, what they are
concerned about.
Drew expressed concerned about losing control of the specification.
Some things we want to ensure OCP retains are as follows:
• Operational autonomy and control of the specification.
• No subrogation to their voting process.
• Concerned of VSIA continuing to accept OCP specification versions.
• Irregardless of VSIA’s future, OCP-IP is structurally, legal, and financially intact.
• We would like the focus to be on adoption of OCP and not the group.
• VSIA members have the right to use OCP and that is all. We do not want OCP to be
a standard that VSIA approves.
• The VSIA Board of Directors should vote, so as to give the approval power of On
Chip Interface standard to OCP-IP until they feel we need to go separate ways. They
would aggregate the space to us and endorse us in the process and have no
mechanism for approval process in VSIA.
• OCP-IP should provide advanced notification of specification enhancements. The
extension of preliminary copies would only be to members of VSIA and individual
members of OCP-IP.
• VSIA needs to investigate the legal complications of “donating” VCI to OCP-IP.
• Should VSIA come back with a big demand on supporting the VCI specification,
which should serve as a red flag.
• We should incorporate the VSIA logo into membership foils.
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• We should have VSIA appoint a formal liaison to stay abreast of our efforts – it
would be the liaison’s job to inform impacted WGs, etc. This liaison has to be
individual member of OCP-IP.
Pete dropped off the line.
AI Review:
VTM edits made on AI list.
AI: Drew to clarify with David Courtright if sufficient review has been done within
MIPS on enhancement proposals.
Foundation Documents/Legal/Financial:
GSC discussed foundation document sign-off. Ian informed other GSC members of the
membership intent of Toshiba, ST, and Flextronics. No one had any issues with these
companies.
Scott joined.
MWG/PR update:
MWG members have been very active and a lot of progress has been made.
New press releases that are forthcoming are as follows: Broadcom, Amphion, and Tower
Semiconductor. Synopsys/System C is under approval. They are still targeting October
15, 2002 because it aligns with the Synopsys event. Synopsys will put the release on the
wire and distribute to press through email.
Call for articles and papers is presented by Scott Seiden.
We are still looking for an author for VCI-to-OCP article. DesignCon and Electronic
Design paper submissions are still TBD. Ian offered that VSIA has a strong presence at
DesignCon and any VSIA collaboration might allow OCP to be presented through VSIA
efforts.
FSA Update
We gave away about 500 Lego-style stress blocks. Also, we talked with about 15
contacts that we will follow up with. FSA had 2,500 pre-registrations.
It seems that putting an article in their publication is a definite possibility. Scott will
work with them on these and other issues. Ian is entertaining the idea of hosting an
annual event around the FSA conference time.
AI: Drew to talk to FSA IP Forum and tell them who we are.
AI: VTM to get collateral and presence at the VSIA booth for DesignCon.
VCX
Andy Travis has some great ideas and tools. We need to stay abreast of this situation, so
we can track progress.
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Scott dropped off the line.
Lunch
Reen joins.
Collateral Review:
Web site CD is reviewed by GSC.
Lite Training presentation is reviewed by GSC.
Press Clippings Booklet presented to GSC.
Newsletter is presented to GSC. Drew has more die photo pictures that he will forward
to us.
AI: Drew committed to provide die photographs to use in future newsletter
graphics.
Short-Term Recruiting:
GSC reviews Joe’s foils.
Ian gave a quick update of some of the “hot list” companies listed in red on the shortterm
recruiting foils.
Long-Term Recruiting:
GSC reviews foils presented by VTM.
AI: Add electronic packets page to Web site, so prospects can download them.
Administrative Update:
VTM gave an administrative update.
Meeting ended at 2:30 p.m. PDT.
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