Design Automation Standards Committee

The Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) is a subgroup of interested individuals members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and Standards Association.
It oversees IEEE Standards that are related to computer-aided design (known as design automation). It is part of the IEEE Computer Society.

This group sponsors and develops standards under the policies of the IEEE.

The group started in the summer of 1984 at the Design Automation Conference.
Initially, the group supported VHDL as a standard, but extended its coverage to Verilog, and then additional areas in the design automation space.

After going through a period of very few meetings in 2004–06 which ended with some contention about Power standards (see Common Power Format and Unified Power Format), the group developed new and explici
policies and procedures
With these procedures approved in 2007, the group began meeting monthly via teleconference. Active meetings include EDA companies, System integration companies, Electronic Intellectual Property (IP developers, and Semiconductor companies, and individuals interested in these topics.

Beginning in 2007, the group began to award the Ron Waxman Design Automation Standards Committee Meritorious Service Award. This award was named after the early and consistently contributing organizer of the DASC, Ron Waxman.

The first recipient of the award in 2007 was Gabe Moretti.

Work of the committee

The biggest center of interest in the DASC has been around language based design and verification standards stemming from the key hardware description language standards VHDL and Verilog. From these have flowed standards for timing, synthesis, math routines, test, power, encryption, and meta-data for the topics above.

The emphasis of the group has also grown to embrace standards being developed in analog-mixed signal and other extensions driven by these needs.

The active Working Groups are:
*VHDL Working Groups
**P1076 Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual
VASG

**P1076.1 Standard VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal Extensions
VHDL-AMS

**P1076.1.1 Standard VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal Extensions - Packages for Multiple Energy Domain Support

- this group is now part of 1076.1
*SystemVerilog Working Groups
**P1800 SystemVerilog: Unified Hardware Design, Specification and Verification Language
SV-IEEE1800
osponsored with IEEE-SA CAG*P1647 Standard for the Functional Verification Language 'e'
eWG

*P1699 Rosetta System Level Design Language Standard
WG

*P1734 Standard for Electronic Design Intellectual Property (IP) Quality
WG

*P1801 Standard for the Design & Verification of Low Power ICs

The inactive Working Groups are:
*P1076.2 IEEE Standard VHDL Mathematical Packages
math

*P1076.3 Standard VHDL Synthesis Packages
vhdlsynth

*P1164 Standard Multivalue Logic System for VHDL Model Interoperability (Std_logic_1164)
vhdl-std-logic

*P1076.4 Standard VITAL ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Modeling Specification
VITAL
- This group is now part of 1076.
VHDL-200x
the next revision
*Issues Screening and Analysis Committee
ISAC

*VHDL Programming Language Interface Task Force
VHPI

*P1364 Standard for Verilog Hardware Description Language
IEEEVerilog
- this group is now part of P1800
*P1364.1 Standard for Verilog Register Transfer Level Synthesis
VLOG-Synth

*P1481 Standard for Integrated Circuit (IC) Open Library Architecture (OLA)
IEEE1481R

*P1497 Standard for Standard Delay Format (SDF) for the Electronic Design Process
sdf

*P1499 Standard Interface for Hardware Description Models of Electronic Components
OMF

*P1577 Object Oriented VHDL
oovhdl

*P1603 Standard for an Advanced Library Format (ALF) Describing Integrated Circuit (IC) Technology, Cells, and Blocks
ALF

*P1604 Library IEEE
libieee

*P1076.6 Standard for VHDL Register Transfer Level (RTL) Synthesis
SIWG

*P1666 Standard System C Language Reference Manual
systemc
osponsored with IEEE-SA CAG*P1685 SPIRIT XML Standard for IP Description
IEEE-1685

*P1735 Recommended Practice for Encryption and se RightsManagement of Electronic Design Intellectual Property (IP)
WG

*P1778 ESTEREL v7 Language Standardization
WG

*P1850 Standard for PSL: Property Specification Language
IEEE-1850

A project is designated by its IEEE-assigned number prefixed with the letter "P".

See also

*Accellera

References

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External links

Design Automation Standards Committee
(DASC)
EDA Industry Working Groups

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IEEE standards
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Organizations established in 1984