Resolution to initiate a Semiconductor Subcommittee

[Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>]

At the May 15 DITA TC meeting with quorum, the TC passed a unanimous
resolution to form a Semiconductor Subcommittee based on the proposal
materials submitted by Bob Beims and Seth Park.

I request your help to set up the facilities for Bob and Seth to begin
their activities in this new DITA TC subcommittee. Thanks!

Minuted resolution:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200705/msg00028.html

zipped proposal materials:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200705/msg00031.html

The text of the zipped file is:

OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee Charter
Prepared by Bob Beims and Seth Park (Freescale Semiconductor)




Purpose of This Document


This document is intended to be a starting point for discussions regarding
the creation of the Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (SIDSC).
After initial discussion, the content in this document should be crafted to
be the Charter for SIDSC.


All following headings are relevant to SIDSC (not the Charter, itself).



Goals


   Identify data patterns that are consistent and/or specific to the
      semiconductor industry. Examples may include:


         Features


         Instruction sets data (may not have standard/native syntax/data
            structure)


         Register data


         Signals data


         Mechanicals data


         Electrical characteristics


         Timing data


         Thermal characteristics


      Most of these content types/structures are well-defined by other
      standards, such as IP-XACT, IEC-61360, IEEE-P1685, etc.; others are
      not. This committee will define how information stored in
      standards-based formats will interact with DITA systems. Data stored
      in other XML formats may be used in a number of ways, including (but
      not limited to):


         Data is referenced as “foreign” content


         Data is transformed from native format to DITA


   Determine which content types/patterns justify the creation of a DITA
      specialization.


   Create specializations.


   Establish guidelines and XSLT for transforming specialized data.


   Create metadata guidelines.


   Provide high-level perspective of how DITA systems should interface with
      RTL, Verilog, design flow tools, and other relevant tools, processes,
      and standard data formats.


   Consider role of SVG, TDML, MATHML and characterize how they should
      interact with DITA. The recommendations of this committee should have
      enough weight to re-energize ownership and development of neglected
      domains.


   Provide justification for standardizing semiconductor industry and
      propose business benefits of participating in SIDSC.



Name: Semiconductor Information Design SC


This name does not limit the scope of our findings and relevance to
specializations.



Deliverables


   All files required to successfully implement all specialized topic types
      (which will be defined at a later time), including:


         Schema, MOD files, XSLT


         Supporting online documentation (created in DITA) and hosted on
            Oasis web site


   Recommendations for the “role of DITA” in semiconductor information
      design.



Leadership


Chair: Bob Beims


Secretary: TBD



Initial Membership


   Freescale


         Seth Park, Information Developer


         Bob Beims, SSDS Project Lead (chair)


   NXP


         Constant Gordon


   ST?


   Intel


         Steve Ballard, Pubs Manager


         Seraphin Larsen


   AMD


         Strongin, Geoffrey


   LSI Logic


         Stan Relf


   PMC-Sierra


         Bob Murray


   Qimonda (part of Infineon)


         Gunnar Krause



Next Steps


   Identify communication channel (email for now?)


   Ratify the Charter


   Complete SC application process (Seth Park offers to facilitate)


   Name a secretary


   Schedule meeting to begin project work



Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
T/L: 678-8550

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot