Minutes of Post-Study Group Meeting, 2018-10-08
Meeting called to order: 11:05 AM EDT
The slide references relate to the pack used during this meeting, located here: http://files.sjtag.org/PostStudyGroup/PSG_Meeting_6.pdf
1. Roll Call and Agenda
Ian McIntosh (Leonardo)
Heiko Ehrenberg (GOEPEL Electronics) (joined 11:06)
Eric Cormack (DFT Solutions) (left 11:14)
Brian Erickson (JTAG Technologies)
Peter Horwood (Firecron Ltd.)
Bill Huynh (Marvell Inc.)
Joel Irby (Arm)
Carl Walker (Cisco Systems)
Craig Stephan (INTELLITECH Inc.) (joined 11:32)
Louis Ungar (A.T.E. Solutions)
Sivakumar Vijayakumar (Keysight) (joined 11:12)
By email (non-attendees):
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Excused:
Richard Pistor (Curtiss-Wright)
Jon Stewart (Dell)
Brad Van Treuren (Nokia)
Joel moved to accept the agenda as proposed, seconded by Eric.
2. IEEE Patent Slides
- {Slides 5-9}
- Patent slides reviewed.
- No comments.
3. Review and Approve Previous Minutes
- {Slide 10}
- September 24 (draft circulated September 24)
- No corrections noted.
- Eric moved to approve, Joel seconded, no objections or abstentions → minutes approved.
4. Review Open Action Items
- {Slide 11}
- [21.1] Brad: Supply Ian with glossary definitions used by 1687.1 for "transformation" and "retargeting".
- No updates.
- ONGOING.
- [27.2] Legacy Initiative Group to propose definition for "SJTAG".
- No updates.
- ONGOING.
- The above may need to be carried over to a future Working Group.
- [P3.1] Legacy Initiative Group members to try to identify pertinent pre-existing diagrams for ITC talk, particularly any that can be used to highlight relationship between SJTAG and STAM.
- Joel has all he needs.
- COMPLETE.
- [P5.1] All: Advise Ian of IEEE membership status and willingness to serve as a group officer.
- Addressed in Discussion Topics, 5a.
- COMPLETE.
5. Discussion Topics
a) STAM Officers
- {Slide 12}
- Action from last week is complete: 8 people have identified as eligible, of which 2 expressed no desire to be nominated for office, and 2 volunteered for specific roles.
- "Editor" is not detailed in the baseline WG policies and procedures as an officer but Chair, Vice-chair, Secretary and Treasurer are. Current understanding is that the technical editors of a standard are not required to be SA members.
- The baseline P&Ps state that an officer's term is a maximum of two years, after which a new round of elections must be held.
- Leave this topic for now, but it will be one of the first activities when the WG forms (NesCom meets on October 19).
b) ITC Poster.
- No significant activity on the forums (http://forums.sjtag.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=791). One typo pointed out by email and corrected in version 2 - http://files.sjtag.org/ITC2018/ITC_2018v2.pdf.
- Heiko pursuing Bill to ensure that the STAM Poster is included in the program. STAM currently isn't listed in the program but Bill has assured that we should get a poster slot in any case.
- "STAM - Re-using device access for board and system test" has been supplied as the title for the poster.
- Corrections to participants (Ian will apply the changes and circulate a v3 of the poster):
- Change "ARM to "Arm"
- Change "ATE Solutions" to "A.T.E. Solutions"
- There being no other comments, these changes essentially complete the poster, but Heiko will arrange for printing once in Phoenix to accommodate any late changes. Forum remains open for comments: http://forums.sjtag.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=791
c) ITC Invited Talk.
- Joel possibly hasn't seen some of the slides Ian had made available on the file manager for inclusion, e.g. http://files.sjtag.org/ITC2018/STAM_ITC18_v0_2_IMM_Extract3.pptx.
- Joel still wants add a few slides:
- Some use cases to motivate people to care more about STAM
- Show STAM as a practical approach on what accesses are available, finding failing accesses. Possible machine learning may be used to create tests in the future. Applications in re-configurable or disrupted systems (latter could involve "generators" to bunch together tests without needing access to the system VHDL, etc).
- Show that we are cognisant of security concerns.
- Joel hopes to have a version of the slidepack available for review prior to the next meeting on October 22.
- Heiko will pull a few slides together for NTF, possibly from the Poster and Joel's slides and hopefully during this week.
6. Today's Key Takeaways
- {Slide 13}
- None.
7. Glossary Terms from This Meeting
- "Generators" (as mentioned in 5c): May need to be qualified as "Test Generators" (used by the integrator/tester) and "Model Generators" (used by IP providers, interface designers, etc.).
- Carried over:
- "Interface" is missing.
- No obvious IEEE accepted definition.
- 1687 has definitions for specialised forms: Device Interface and Instrument Interface.
- We may need specialised forms for Software Interface and Hardware Interface.
- 1687.1: Transformation, Retargetting.
- IEEE 1856: Sense - "Sensor" done, Acquire, Analyze not really defined.
- SJTAG: Discussion on forums - http://forums.sjtag.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=782
- Device - do we mean a packaged device? May be many devices in a package (1149.1 opted for "entity" in order to be non-specific).
- Correction to the above remark: It has been pointed out that 1149.1 actually defines conformance in terms of "component" (c.f. COMPONENT_CONFORMANCE attribute in BSDL), and "entity" only pertains to BSDL where it is simply inherited from VHDL. "Device" is often used as a modifier, e.g. "device package", "device identification".
- Use Case Context, Application Context
- Legacy Infrastructure, SJTAG Infrastructure (placeholders for now, really for working group to define).
8. Topic for next meeting
- NesCom outcome (if available).
- ITC Invited Talk.
- Forum thread: http://forums.sjtag.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=792
9. Schedule next meeting
- October 22.
10. Reminders
- None.
11. Any Other Business
- Website servers to be upgraded/migrated shortly (date unknown but will happen between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM UK time) - may result in service unavailability without notice.
12. List New Action Items
- None.
13. Adjourn
- Joel moved to adjourn, seconded by Peter.
- Meeting adjourned at 11:47 AM EDT
Respectfully submitted,
Ian McIntosh