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VHDL 200X Workshop
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Call for Participation
September 4th, 2000
Department of Computer Engineering
University of Tübingen, Germany
Co-located with FDL 2000

organized by
SIG-DL and IEEE VASG
and the European Electronic Chips & Systems design Initiative (ECSI)
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The success story of VHDL is associated with the efforts of the VHDL
Analysis
and Standardization Group (VASG) of the IEEE Design Automation Standards
Committee
(DASC) to constantly improve the language with each new version of the
standard.
Due to their complexity and size, the next generation system-on-chip designs
require
new language capabilities that enhance and ease the design process at each
level
of abstraction.

To meet this challenge, standardization activities towards a major VHDL
language
revision have been started under the working title "VHDL 200X". A discussion
on
future requirements and new language features is currently taking place and,
as a working group for VHDL-related activities in Europe, the Special
Interest
Group in Design Languages (SIG-DL) is organizing a VHDL 200X workshop just
before
the Forum on Design Languages (FDL 2000). Note that other VHDL-related
topics will
also be presented later during FDL.

The workshop will highlight the latest status of the standardization
activities
and will inform about the current outstanding language issues through a
number
of presentations. The workshop is not only a possibility to get the latest
information about existing requirements for VHDL 200X but also to
participate
in the discussion on new requirements. Topics that are of interest include,
but are not limited to, all current activities to enhance VHDL such as the
ones
addressing the definition of a programming language interface (PLI),
system-level
support and object-oriented features.

The workshop is also a forum to discuss the developments around VHDL and
related
standards. One major aim of the workshop is to identify the needs of the
user community
and to collect these needs in a requirements list for the standardization
process.
The idea of the workshop is to immediately enter into a discussion on the
requirements
and proposals that are presented on the workshop.

The workshop is open. Any presentation that deals with new requirements or
comments
on the VHDL language (language definition, usage, etc.) is welcome. To
better organize
the event, presentation proposals should be forwarded to the workshop Chair
by
August 18. Slide handouts will be provided to the workshop participants.
Also, registering to the workshop by August 18 is welcome. The content of
the
workshop will be available and timely updated on the ECSI web site.

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Workshop Chair and contact person:
Guido Schumacher
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Postfach 2503 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
FDL 2000 web site: http://www.ecsi/org/ecsi/fdl
ECSI web site: http://www.ecsi.org
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