Request for contact

IBIS community:

I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself, to to make contact
on behalf of the steering working group of VSIA, the Virtual Socket
Interface Alliance. The alliance is driving industry visibility and
standards for mix-and-match of macro blocks (virtual components)
for system-on-a-chip design. I am the VP of engineering for Synopsys's
Design Reuse Group, Synopsys's representative to VSIA and chair of
the subcommittee on working groups. Part of the charter of this
committee is to identify which are the technical areas of greatest
concern and importance to the design community in promoting the
flow of "intellectual property blocks" inside and among companies.

To that end, I want to make contact with the IBIS participants and
understand how I/O buffers may play a role in macro block interchange.
I am eager to hear back with thoughts, suggestions or proposals
on the relevance of I/O buffers to interchange, the state of the
IBIS effort, and suggestions about how IBIS might interact with
VSIA, if there are areas of common interest.

Chris

Chris Rowen
crowen@synopsys
VP Engineering, Design Reuse Group
Synopsys, Inc.
700 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA 94043-4033
tel (415) 943 5264
fax (415) 943 5010
pager (415) 317 1105
mobile (408) 334 0361
Received on Thu Oct 3 09:11:49 1996