MSC (Microprocessor Standards Committee)

Established: 1980 Active projects: IEEE P754r Floating point IEEE P1363 Public key cryptography IEEE P1722 AVB L2 Transport Protocol (AVBTP) IEEE P1796 Resilient backplane ring (RBR) IEEE P1896 Memory channel (MC) IEEE P1953 Bioinformatics Standards Committee (BSC) MSC Working Groups and Contacts: P754 Draft Specification for Floating-Point Arithmetic – Contact Bob Davis P1363 StandardSpecification for Public-Key Cryptographic Techniques Revision     Contact William Whyte P1363.1 Standard Specification for Public-Key Cryptographic Techniques Based on     Hard Problems over Lattices – Contact William Whyte P1363.2 Standard Specification for Password-Based Public-Key Cryptographic Techniques     Contact William Whyte P1363.3  Standard for Identity-Based Cryptographic Techniques using Pairings     Contact William Whyte P1394  Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus – Contact Les Baxter P1394c Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus Amendment to enhance the physical layer for      higher data rates over CAT5 or better rated UTP cable- Mike Teener P1575  Standard for Advanced Microcomputer Power Distribution System – Contact Michael Coletta P1596  Standard for Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) Revision – Contact Dave Gustavson P1620.1  Standard for Test Methods for the Characterization of Organic Transistor Based Ring Oscillators – Contact Dan Gamota P1639  Standard for Transmission of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) Data within      Local Area Networks: DistributedMIDI – DMIDI - Contact Jennifer Dillon P1722 Standard for Layer 2 Transport Protocol for Time Sensitive Applications in      Bridged Local Area Networks – Contact Robert Boatright P1796  Standard for Resilient backplane ring (RBR) – Contact David James P1896  Memory Channel Standard (Scalable Memory Interface) – Contact Bob Davis P1953  Bioinformatics Data Structures - Framework and Overview  - Contact Asim Siddiqui P1953.1  Standard for Sequence Ontology – Contact Suzanna Lewis P1953.2  Standard for Flow Cytometry – Contact Ryan Brinkman Documentation tools:     Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, and OpenOffice word-processing templates.     as well as Sponsor-ballot editing checklist are available. Scope of the MSC: To create, maintain, and encourage the use of IEEE standards for the engineering of computer systems involving microprocessor and floating-point architectures, buses, interconnects, sensors, microprocessor operating system interfaces, real-time operating systems, programming and object languages, data interchange, cryptographic hardware, and computer environmental specifications. MSC P&P (Policies and Procedures) are available here. New Projects: New projects within the scope of the MSC are always welcome.  Please contact either Bob Davis, Leonard Tsai, or Dave James to be added to the next meeting agenda. MSC mailing list: The MSC mailing list is managed by the IEEE.  To subscribe, send the following text, with your {e-mail address, first name, and last name} substituted for {emailAddress, firstName, lastName} in the body of an e-mail to ListServ@ieee.org: subscribe stds-msc emailAddress firstName lastName Meeting announcements and other information will be distributed using this list. Next meeting information: The normal MSC meeting schedule is quarterly on the evening of the second Monday of January, April, July, and October.  The following are the dates of the scheduled meetings: 2007-07-09 (July 9, 2007):  HP, Cupertino, CA USA 2007-10-08 (October 8, 2007):  HP, Cupertino, CA USA 2008-01-14 (January 14, 2008) 2008-04-14 (April 14, 2008) 2008-07-14 (July 14, 2008) 2008-107-13 (October 13, 2008) The location of MSC meetings have moved to the generosity of HP and Intel, combined with the doubling of our previous site's facilities costs. Major "Hot" projects: 754R - Revision and extension of the IEEE Binary Floating Point Standard to the IEEE Floating Point Standard. 4 years of work and continuing see website above. This is the most widely used IEEE Standard! 1284.x - A series of standards for the PC Parallel Port originally used for printing and now used for a variety of peripherals. 1363 - A library of cryptographic means - Study group working on extension. 1394.x Serial Bus for 100MBit-1GBit data rates, and 25-40 Watts DC power distribution for up to 1024 devices. Widely used in consumer Digital Video products. 1596.x Scalable Coherent Interface, a family of standards for interconnecting up to 64K devices at data rates in the GByte/s/device range. Used now in high end servers and supercomputers, moving into workstations and PCs. Revision about to start. 1722 – The Audio/Video Bridging L2 Transport Protocol defines the session management, synchronization, and encapsulation used for AVB networks 1796 - Resilient Backplane Ring (RBR) 1896 - Memory Channel project (MC) - to extend the memory interface to all types types of memories and distances with extensions of SCI protocols. 1953 A series of standards for Bioinformatics - Framework and Structure of standards for the Bioinformatics area.  Study Group for P1953.2600 Sequence Ontology submitted PAR Study Group for Flow Cytometry under the P1953 project. Information about previous meetings. MSC projects status tables Want to be in the ballot pool for MSC project balloting?  The IEEE now provides that capability via their web site.  Be ready with your SA Membership number (it is the same as your IEEE membership number.) IEEE/RAC reviews The MSC committee has representatives on the IEEE/RAC, a committee that manages technical concerns associated with unique number assignments: David V James and Bob Davis. Their intent is to use the MSC reflector to solicit inputs about current and future IEEE/RAC activities. IEEE Patent Policies for required committee use in .pdf and .ppt formats.

Chair Bob Davis Vice Chair Leonard Tsai Secretary Dave James Treasurer Dave Gustavson MMSC has historical ties to MMTC