Planning For IEEE Standards Association Corporate Membership
With the 2011 Corporate budget planning cycle about to begin in many companies, I thought it appropriate to review the IEEE Standards Association (SA) Corporate membership plan, including both its costs and benefits. This will allow companies that feel that SA membership is beneficial for them to put the membership dues in their 2011 budgets. [...]
Standards & Reference Implementations
In a previous blog entry, I spoke about the relationship between Standards and Open Source software, concluding that “open source standard” was an oxymoron. One topic that I did not discuss was the relationship between a Standard and the so-called “Reference Implementation” (“RI” for short) of that Standard. This relationship is not as straightforward as [...]
DVCon 2011 Is Open For Business
DVCon 2011, sponsored by Accellera, is now open for paper abstracts and proposals for panels/sponsored tutorials. This conference will be held in San Jose from February 28 through March 3 of next year at its usual spot in the DoubleTree Hotel very close to the airport. DVCon has developed into the yearly gathering place for [...]
The Importance of Front End Standards
It was recently announced that Shishpal Rawat has been elected Chair of Accellera, a key “Front End” (i.e., RTL and above) EDA Standards organization. This by itself is a fine development, since I have absolutely no doubt that Accellera will prosper under Shishpal’s leadership. However, it is also a continuation of a trend. The Chair [...]