Re[2]: Re[2]- Re[3]- EIA info f

IBIS-ers,

Andy Graham, chairman of CFI will be joining us tomorrow to give us
an overview of CFI for our standards organization discussion. I've
asked him to join us at 9:00 PDT (or earlier if he wants to listen
in). Below is a summary of what CFI is.

"See" you tomorrow.

Will

CFI Mission: Provide industry accepted standards and technology that enable
interoperability of electronic design automation applications and data for
end-users and suppliers worldwide.

Accomplishments:
- Staged prototype demonstrations involving 20+ companies 90-92 - Released first
balloted design representation PI standard 1/93 - Released first Developers
toolkit 5/93
- Joined ARPA RASSP program to provide EDA standards 9/93 - Certified first DRPI
compliance 6/94

Membership: 40 companies worldwide (12 Japanese/7 European)
- all major semiconductor companies
- all major EDA vendors
- computer and telecommunications companies

Process: Majority rule vote by company with appeal provision

Resources: 11 dedicated staff with 7K sq/ft facility and equipment

Capabilities:
- Technical publication
- Internet server for doc distribution, conferencing, reflectors
Mosaic home pages etc.
- Developer Toolkit development and distribution
- Certification test development and administration - Multicompany project
management
- Finance, legal, and government contracts administration

Budget: $2.2M in CY '94

Accreditation: Filed under the National Cooperative Research Act along with
other consortia such as Sematech and MCC.

Current activities:
- CFI Submicron interoperability project
- ASIC library standardization (timing and functional models) - ARPA RASSP
program (involving many EDA vendors)
- OMF facilitation

Legal status: Delaware membership owned corporation since 2/89

Governance: 11 member Board elected at large from membership
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Received on Thu Jul 14 08:49:46 1994