IEEE Standards Focus

 
January 2008
  

News Notes
Steve Mills Appointed CAG Chairman

Chuck Adams has decided to step down as chair of the CAG in order to focus on assuming responsibilities as President-elect of the SA. Steve Mills has been appointed to the position by George Arnold, IEEE Standards Association Board of Governors President. Steve Mills has many roles in the SA including Chair of the Standards Board and Vice-Chair of the CAG.

Visit us online to find out more about IEEE-SA governance, including current rosters and meeting schedules.

New Members for CAG in 2008

 Two new members have joined the CAG for 2008-2009 terms: Karen Bartleson and Christian Jacquenet.

Bartleson, appointed by CAG Chair Steve Mills, is Director of Interoperability for Synopsys and has worked in the semiconductor industry for 27 years.

Jacquenet, elected by the IEEE-SA corporate members, is Director of Standardization for France Telecom, where he has been employed for over 15 years. Welcome to these new IEEE-SA corporate governance participants.

Corporate Standards Going To Ballot:

Working groups going to ballot in the coming months include:

  • IEEE P1450.6.1 - Standard for Describing On-Chip Scan Compression
  • IEEE P1625 - Standard for Rechargeable Batteries for Portable Computing
  • IEEE P1685 - Standard Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Reusing IP within Tool-flows (SPIRIT)
  • IEEE P1801 - Unified Power Format Standard
For information and announcements about these upcoming ballots, contact Corporate Standards.

Upcoming CAG Meetings:

The Corporate Advisory Group has scheduled the following meetings in 2008:
  • 4-5 March 2008 in Seattle, Washington, USA. It will be hosted by Microsoft.
  • 13 May 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. It will be hosted by Sony.
  • 21-22 August 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It will be hosted by Nortel.
  • 21-22 August 2008 in Ontario, Canada. It will be hosted by Nortel.
  • 4-5 December, 2008 in Delray Beach, Florida, USA. Co-located with the IEEE-SA governance meeting series.
Please email for information on meeting agendas or attending these meetings.

Toolkit Available for Corporate Standards Development:

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IEEE DASC and Intel Recognized for Commitment to IEEE-SA Entity Standards Development

The IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) has been named the recipient of the first IEEE-SA Sponsor Award for Outstanding Contribution to Corporate Standards Development. This new award will be presented annually to IEEE Standards sponsors that have shown exceptional support of the entity standards development process.

"The CAG wanted to provide more recognition to the sponsors who had made use of this program," says 2007 Corporate Advisory Group chair Chuck Adams. "The intent was to acknowledge the sponsors that had been successful and had shown interest in integrating the entity process within their existing processes."

The IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee is responsible for the standardization of Design Automation-related standards within the IEEE. It is part of the IEEE Computer Society and also operates under the auspices of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). The DASC's center of interest has been around language-based design and verification standards stemming from the key HDL standards, VHDL and Verilog, from which have flowed standards for timing, synthesis, math routines, and test. Currently the emphasis of the group is growing to embrace system-level requirements, with standards being developed in analog-mixed signal and other extensions driven by these needs. DASC's latest projects include SystemVerilog, Low Power Format, Esterel, Rosetta, IP Quality Metrics and IP Encryption.

"The CAG approach is to encourage IEEE Societies to be the Sponsors of entity standards development projects," says Adams. "There's a lot of value in developing the technology under the umbrella of the Societies. That's why the CAG wanted to acknowledge the Sponsors willing to integrate the entity process within their traditional structures.”

"The entity program is not intended to replace existing methodologies, but to complement them," says Adams. "The strength and synergy then comes back to the IEEE. Both the SA and the Sponsors have a broader portfolio to offer those interested in pursuing standards development activities."

In addition, Intel Corporation was honored with the IEEE-SA 2007 Corporate Award "in recognition of its sustained contributions, leadership, and advancement of the IEEE-SA Corporate Program." The award is presented annually to an IEEE-SA member organization for providing outstanding leadership and contributions to the IEEE-SA.

"Intel has supported standards development at the IEEE for several decades and we are pleased to be involved with the IEEE-SA Corporate Program," said Philip Wennblom, Intel Director of International Standards and Regulations, who accepted the award. "The IEEE-SA Corporate Program is an important addition to the individual-based standards development process at the IEEE; it's especially valuable as the IEEE-SA continues to grow as a globally recognized standards developing organization."



Thomas Lee: Reaching Out in China (and Beyond)

Thomas Lee

CAG member Thomas Lee (Li Li) was the first person to fill the CAG's new strategic outreach position, which was created in 2007. As the Vice Director of Standards in Huawei Technologies in China, Lee believes the position allows both the CAG and participating companies to learn from each other, and to work together as peers.

"I am the only Chinese member in the CAG," says Lee. "I have been working in China's Telecom industry for over 10 years, so it's easy for me to answer questions about China and its Telecom industry. I believe that is valuable for IEEE. At the same time, Huawei is a global telecom vendor and has lots of innovative ideas and technologies. Representing Huawei as a member of the IEEE-SA CAG, I can bring some of those technologies to IEEE as standard projects."

The strategic outreach position on the CAG is a means of broadening strategic global corporate participation in the IEEE-SA. In creating the strategic outreach position, the CAG wanted to reach out to organizations in developing economies. "That's where we believe the real growth for the future is going to come from," says Chuck Adams. "The outreach role is a one-year position, but renewable for a second year. That allows us, without going through the formal election process, to bring in a company from a developing economy to get them involved and feel committed to the activities of the group."

"The value of this outreach position is not only attending CAG meetings," says Lee, "but bringing real projects to IEEE directly. A new project named NGSON is already approved as a Study Group under the CAG, and is aiming to be approved as a Working Group in the first quarter of 2008. If it's achieved, the mission of this outreach position will be regarded as successful at the first phase."

"In the minds of the folks on the CAG," says Adams, "standards today have very few geographic boundaries. Larger companies are global, they want to be able to market their products globally, and they want to work with companies in other areas. This was a good approach to enable growth of the program."

Says Lee, "If a group of projects from China could be approved and run well under the CAG in the future, then this outreach position could be totally successful."


CAG Seminar in Japan this May

The CAG will hold a special one-day seminar in Japan this May. The event will be held on Wednesday, 14 May, at the global headquarters of Sony Corporation in Tokyo. All engineers in Tokyo and the surrounding area are invited to attend.

The agenda is still under development. The morning session will include presentations by representatives of Japanese ministries, as well as information about IEEE-SA and the corporate standards process. The afternoon session will feature presentations on Corporate Program standards activities and other key standards activities of the IEEE-SA. The technologies likely to be covered include battery standards, design automation, broadband over power lines, cognitive radio and communication standards (the 802 program).

All sessions will have simultaneous English/Japanese translation and slides will be shown on two screens. The days after the seminar will feature CAG outreach meetings with local businesses.

More information about the CAG seminar in Japan, including registration details, will be available online soon. Contact Corporate Standards if you would like to be added to a mailing list for this seminar.


Outgoing CAG Members: Rob Fish & Chuck Powers


Rob Fish Chuck Powers

Rob Fish and Chuck Powers have been members of the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group since its inception in 2004. As they step down from the CAG, we asked about their experiences and accomplishments, as well as their visions for the future.

"I worked for Panasonic at the time I joined the CAG," says Fish. "One of the things that attracted us to the CAG program was the promise that it would allow companies to more rapidly process a standard. I think, as a large degree, we have succeeded in creating that type of process."

"A big part of what we did was put the processes in place to make the entity-placed process get underway," says Powers. "Personally, I was very involved in helping to develop policies and procedures. We have several projects completed, and several underway. I think we really managed to get the ball rolling."

"One of the notable turns we've seen," says Fish, "is that the corporate process was able to encourage the participation with the relevant sponsoring Societies, which bring deep intellectual resources and experience to the table. One of things I tried was to collaborate with the IEEE ComSoc, which is a well of information and expertise within the IEEE. I think in the future you could see a value chain that includes not just the corporations and the Societies but also includes the more private consortium arrangements that are facilitated by the IEEE."

Powers agrees that IEEE Societies offer many opportunities. "There are a lot of other areas in IEEE that could take advantage of the entity process," he says, adding, "I think it's going to be a very successful program."

Thanks to Rob Fish and Chuck Powers for their four years of service and commitment to the IEEE-SA CAG.
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