From: Ben Bennetts[SMTP:benb@lvision.com] Sent: Monday, February 17, 1997 5:12AM To: adam_cron@wes.mot.com; colin.maunder@bt-sys.bt.co.uk; harryh@lvision.com; gordon_robinson@credence.com Cc: cbattle@courtesyassoc.com; bruce@adttx.sps.mot.com Subject: Special session at ITC Gents, I have a proposition to put to you. As this year's Program Chair for ITC, I would like to put together a special session of three 30-minute papers on the 1149.x Standards and to invite you to be the three presenters + session chair. Here are my thoughts but do not be bound by them. Title: "IEEE 1149.x Standards: Past, Present, and Future." Session Chair: Gordon Robinson, Chair 1149 Paper 1. "IEEE 1149.1 - what have we achieved so far?" Presenter: Colin Maunder, 1149.1 Emeritus Chair Short history of JTAG: did we achieve JTAG's objectives? Major additions since 1990 e.g. BSDL, new instructions, ... Documented successes Now where? Paper 2. "IEEE 1149.5 - now it's a Standard, so what?" Presenter: Harry Hulvershorn, 1149.5 Chair Brief overview of the Standard: history, technical overview Documented implementations/case studies Future Paper 3. "IEEE P1149.4 - almost a Standard" Presenter: Adam Cron Technical overview, including compatibility with 1149.1 Timeline to when P1149.4 will become a Standard Documented case studies (e.g. HP/Matsushita) Gordon, I could turn this into a 4-paper session if you felt upto giving a "big picture" view of the three Standards i.e. positioning them all playing together. Alternatively, if you are happy to chair the session, you could close with a few wise words about the potential synergy of the three Standards in the area of system and field service e.g. remote diagnostics, again with refernce to case studies if possible. Logistics. The deadline for regular papers for ITC97 is Feb 21. I do not proposee to hold you to this deadline - not in terms of a full paper that is!! Given that this is an invited session, I propose the following schedule. By Feb 28: acceptance of the invitation and a better abstract of each presentation. Email to me is OK and upto 1500 words abstract summarising the flow of the presentation. Please copy to Carla Battle of Courtesy at . By March 7: full text of each paper to Courtesy, copy to me, for distribution to the referees. Note: I plan for the three papers to be in the Proceedings and so they will all be refereed to the usual ITC standards. The paper you send by March 7 need not be the final version but should be more than just the abstract and should contain enough substance for the referees to comment on. Following the referee's comments, you will be asked to submit final camera-ready copy by 25 July. You will then have from March 7 to 25 July to work the real detail of the papers. Gents, I hope we can make this work. Let me know if (a) you like the idea and (b) you are willing to put the effort in. We could also plan to have the three papers appear in a special issue of IEEE Design & Test of Computers, or JETTA. Ben 16 Feb, 97 ------------------------------------------ Ben Bennetts, Director, Market Development LogicVision Europe, Burridge Farm, Burridge Southampton, SO31 1BY, UK Tel: +44 1489 576602 Fax: +44 1489 579519 Vmail: +1 408 453 0146, ext. 149 Email: benb@lvision.com LogicVision web page: http://www.lvision.com/ ITC web page: http://www.ee.gatech.edu/conferences/itc/