DIE Information Exchange for Timing (DIET) Format

My apologies on the date of the meeting. It should be September 13th and
14th, not May. Sorry.

The DIET Format is an unambiguous, EDA-tool processable, human-readable
exchange format for specifying timing information about bare die and will
represent data in typical IC component manufacturer provided format. It is
initially intended for use in MCM design processes and will cover all
aspects of bare die timing including specification and checking. It is
intended to cover component required timing information, not instance or
designer specific information and will provide specification of timing for
complex, IC level components intended for MCM level use, not ASIC gate
level components. The format is intended to replace the many ad-hoc formats
in use today by EDA tools and MCM foundries and to provide a mechanism for
IC manufacturers to provide important information about their products in a
computer-sensible form.

Preliminary information about the DIET Format semantics and syntax is
available electronically.

A workshop to review the DIET format is scheduled for Tuesday, September 13th
and Wednesday, September 14th, 1994. Location has not be decided but it will
somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area. The intent of this workshop will
be to review existing work on this topic and set goals and direction for
future work. Long term plans for standardization (EIA, CFI or IEEE) will be
discussed also.

For more information about the DIET Format or the workshop, please contact
me at lfs@synopsys.com (email), 415-694-4490 (fax), or 415-694-1837 (voice).

Larry Saunders
Logic Modeling Group

Larry Saunders
lfs@mcimail.com or lfs@synopsys.com
408-894-0119 415-694-1837
408-894-0119 (fax) 415-962-8637 (fax)
1426 Cedarmeadow Ct 700 East Middlefield Rd, Bldg C
San Jose, CA Mountain View, CA
95131 94043-4033
Received on Tue Aug 23 09:02:01 1994