Hi John:
Thank you for calling in today. Your discussion was quite helpful.
The encryption proposal has been approved for Verilog 1364-2005
and a similar draft is pending completion for VHDL by DAC. Both
are targetted for IEEE adoption.
Simply supporting or even endorsing the encryption documents in
the Verilog and Accelera/VHDL groups looks like the best approach
for IBIS members. If several groups support a common approach,
then the EDA and semiconductor/IP vendors to should also support
that approach for business reasons.
I might suggest a formal IBIS resolution showing such support.
The IBIS Committee plans to meet on Tuesday, July 25 at DAC,
probably at the hotel Mentor is booking. I will follow up later,
but you are welcome to attend and give a status update on
the language group encryption efforts (1/2 hour or so.) You
can even join for a free lunch. We can schedule a time slot
that matches your schedule.
We assume that the approaches taken would easily extend to
VHDL-AMS and Verilog-AMS (whether or not officially approved).
We would support such extensions.
We hope to call on you for more information.
Bob
