NIST AND S12 DEMO SOFTWARE FOR INTERNET-BASED QUICKVC IP EXCHANGE AT DAC.

NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. staff, along with the Silicon Integration Initiative “Si2” redirects here. For other uses, see Si2 (disambiguation).

Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is a non-profit consortium of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA, and manufacturing companies, focused on improving the way integrated circuits are (S12), demonstrated a new software tool NIST helped to develop at the Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control.

DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ) 2000 in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Calif. The QuickVC (Virtual Component) IP (Intellectual Property) Exchange is a reference implementation of the QuickVC specification being developed as part of the Electronic Component Information Exchange (ECIX ECIX Electronic Component Information Exchange
ECIX Electronic Component Interchange
ECIX Economic Conversion Information Exchange
ECIX European Commercial Internet Exchange ) suite of protocols for the Electronics Industry. QuickvC will enable companies designing complex electronic products to readily find and use existing blocks of design from a broader range of sources and thus reduce time-to-market.

The QuickVC Program, underway since November 1999, has created working implementations for Internet-based query and response interfaces between VC providers, VC catalog providers, and their end users. Future goals of this program include release of formal QuickVC specifications. The content architecture of the ECIX QuickVC Specifications is designed to enable a query to be composed using a few common search criteria (QuickVC Elements). A standard response message structure is specified that is a prescriptive set of common information (also QuickVC Elements) and allows for additional content in the response (Extended QuickVC Elements).

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Publication:	Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Article Type:	Brief Article
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Date:	Sep 1, 2000
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