Request form for submitting a template or TDL item

To submit a new IEEE 1451.4-2004 template or a new item in the template description language (TDL item) to be considered for publication as an IEEE standard template, or TDL item, please submit request form 3 with a copy of the material to be considered. Following review by the IEEE Registration Authority, a new template will be published on the IEEE 1451.4-2004 templates page, and will be available for download.

As described in the Standard, a company or user can create templates for use by all to whom the template description files are distributed. The template description file is an ASCII text file, written in TDL, and having a file name extension of .tdl (see IEEE Std 1451.4.2004 subclause 6.1). IEEE Standard 1451.4-2004 annex A contains several examples of the template description file. A template description file may be submitted to IEEE for consideration as IEEE template by the manufacturer who developed the template of significant use, under the following condition:

The submitted template must have been in use for a sufficiently long period and by a sufficient number of users to demonstrate its effectiveness and freedom from defects.

Requesters should use the registration request process overview document when preparing requests. All templates and TDL items must pass the syntax check program.

NOTICE: The attached software is currently undergoing BETA testing. The software has not been verified for any particular purpose. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. The software is intended solely as a tool of convenience. The software does NOT guarantee that a given product is or will be compliant with IEEE-SA Standards and is NOT intended to be used, explicitly or implicitly, to certify or assure such compliance, and you shall NOT represent or imply to others that IEEE-SA has tested, certified or otherwise approved of any product developed through use of this software.

The overview document and syntax checker are located in the TDL programmer's start-up kit contained here.

Template publishing fee; $550.00 (US).

TDL items publishing fee; $550.00 (US).

The template is utilized during reading and writing the contents of the IEEE 1451.4-2004 TEDS as described in IEEE Std 1451.4-2004. The template describes the significance of the pure binary data stored in the TEDS. TDL items are values and parameters appearing in the template.

The IEEE Registration Authority will maintain and publish a library of standard templates and TDL items for the use of those involved in the application of IEEE Std 1451.4-2004.

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