IEEE 1451.4 Standard Working Group

IEEE 1451.4 Standard Working Group Telephone Meeting, August 28, 2003 Meeting Minutes, issued August 29, 2003 Chair: T. Licht Secretary : P. Hufnagel

Attendance: Jorgen Baekke, G. R. A. S. Sound & Vibration, mailto:[email protected] Ed Herceg, Macro Sensors, [email protected] Paul Hufnagel, Kistler, [email protected] Nick Komninos, Radiaulics, [email protected] Kang Lee, NIST, [email protected] Torben Licht, B&K, [email protected] David Potter, National Instruments, [email protected] Bill Schuh, Watlow, [email protected] Leonard Staller, Cygnal Integrated Prod, [email protected] Steven Webb, HBM, [email protected] Darold Wobschall, Esensors, [email protected]

The current Draft is P1451.4, V1.06, available at the website listed in the Aug 14 email from T. Licht.

1) Proposal for Tiers of Compliance: a) Editor has added the proposed document as Clause 4 in the Draft.

2) Time schedule: a) T. Licht reports that the Draft should be ready for review by the Working Group by Sept 4. Any corrections, hopefully minor, would be completed by Sept 11, and ballot could begin Sept 15. Action: K. Lee to notify IEEE-SA Ballot Committee to prepare for a 10-day 2nd ballot, starting Sept 15. ********************************************************************************************** Tentative deadlines and resources: Task Finish Resource Status Microphone Templates revision 11-Aug JSB+TRL Appended TEDS/PD_TEDS 12-Aug JSB+TRL+DP 7.4.10.2 Done Registration process 7-Aug DP Near Done Embedded Template Baekke21 12-Aug JSB+TRL Enumeration of model numbers 12-Aug JSB+TRL File containing BasicTeds DP/3 8-Aug JSB+TRL+DP Same as above CRC Baekke/5 12-Aug GF+JSB Editorial 15-Aug TRL Extended functionality 7-Aug JSB+CRL+TRL Nearly done. Generic Memory XML 12-Aug JSB+CRL+GR G. Raj UTID 12-Aug JSB+TRL Tiers 7-Aug TRL+JSB Done Dallas-answers to worries 12-Aug DP+KL Legal Questions

*************************************************************************************************** b) Comment Seaman/4: Questions the relationship between the Basic TEDS fields. They are not related, and could easily be duplicated between manufacturers, with only the manufacturer ID field maintaining the uniqueness. Sentence added to 5.1.1 for explanation. c) Comment Seaman/5: PDF file of the Draft should be book marked for ease of reading. Editor will try to add book marks. d) Comment Rjohnson/06 and Catlin/08: Explanatory text added to 5.1.2.

Working Group Minutes, 1451.4 Telcon, 08-28-03, page 1 of 2 e) Comment Rjohnson/05: The ASCII format for the manufacturer list file in 5.1.1 shall be ISO-646 ASCII-256, CRLF delimited. ISO-646 will be added as a reference. f) Comment Woods-E5: Asks term “node” to be changed. Based on the comment from one of the recent members, that the term “node” caused him no confusion, we decided that “node” will be retained. g) Comment Robinson/3: Contains some good ideas on the administration of manufacturer ID numbers, which will be adopted into the annex.

3) Generic Memory: a) G. Raj is writing an XML description of generic memory, which will complete the needs for generic memory.

Extended Functionality: a) J. Baekke and C. Lopez have included changes in some of the templates, to allow extended functions to operate. J. Baekke reports that the template changes are minor. D. Potter reports that some templates have not yet been modified. C. Lopez is completing work on the syntax needed for extended functions.

4) Dallas License: a) Rules for IEEE Standards Working Groups prohibit the discussion of patent licenses in the meeting. These discussions are to be between individual parties and not to involve IEEE. The feeling of the Chair is that the IEEE rule, along with the offer made by Dallas/Maxim, is sufficient to answer the comments from the 1st ballot, on the question of licensing.

5) Minutes: a) May 2003 Minutes approved. Secretary will place on approved minutes website.

7) New Business: a) Sensors Expo, Anaheim Convention Center, Sept 22-25, 2003: On Tuesday, Sept 23, the 2:30 pm session will feature 12 papers on all phases of the 1451Family. The morning session will include a presentation by J. Wiczer on Smart Sensors. A 1451 Pavilion will be included on the show floor.

8) Next Meeting: a) Next meeting: Thursday Sept 4, 2003. 2 pm EDT b) Adjourn: 2:58 pm EDT.

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