From: rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.arch,comp.lsi,comp.sys.super Subject: RESULT: comp.arch.fpga passes 306:22 Supersedes: Followup-To: news.groups Date: 21 Jul 1994 17:31:36 -0400 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 378 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net RESULT unmoderated group comp.arch.fpga passes 306:22 There were 306 YES votes and 22 NO votes, for a total of 328 valid votes. There were 3 abstains. For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO) votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes. There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. If no serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter. Newsgroups line: comp.arch.fpga FPGA based reconfigurable computing systems. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. For voting questions only contact rdippold@qualcomm.com. For questions about the proposed group contact Jeffrey Arnold . CHARTER The unmoderated newsgroup comp.arch.fpga will be open to discussions on all topics related to the use of reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as computational engines. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, system architecture FPGA device architecture languages and compilation techniques tools software environments applications comp.arch.fpga Final Vote Ack Voted Yes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ a.osama@ic.ac.uk aardoom@muresh.et.tudelft.nl Eric Aardoom aarond@bigb.stortek.com Aaron Dailey x4989 abakus@informatik.uni-kl.de adm@hplb.hpl.hp.com Alan D Marshall afraser@hookup.net Andrew Fraser ajayc@xilinx.com Ajay Chankramath akay@sharp.co.uk Andrew Kay Alan.Hunter@brunel.ac.uk Alan N Hunter alan@cypress.com Alan J. Coppola alex@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at Alexander Jaud amiri@cse.psu.edu Khalil Amiri ant@minster.york.ac.uk aqualung@ugcs.caltech.edu Dave Bartolomeo ARVIN@kihelektro.kih.no Arvin Patel ats@lems.brown.edu Aaron T. Smith ault@cs.albany.edu Jim Ault auriga@netcom.com Oscar Naval awd@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu Andrew W. Donoho axel@ele.kth.se Axel Jantsch bajwa@guardian.cse.psu.edu Raminder S Bajwa bekeur@gel.usherb.ca Ahmed Boubekeur bennett@neocad.com Dave Bennett benst@stuyts.nl Ben Stuyts berc@src.dec.com bertin@prl.dec.com Patrice Bertin billw@xilinx.com Bill Wilkie bjn@watson.ibm.com Ben J. Nathanson bjs@fir.canberra.edu.au Brian Stone bjv@herbison.com B.J. Herbison boguta%abar4.hepnet@Csa4.LBL.Gov bozo@tredennick.com bret@icicle.winternet.com Bret Indrelee brianf@xilinx.com Brian Fox brianvon@interval.com Brian Von Herzen c-cjb@csc-sun.math.utah.edu CADEK@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at Gerhard R. Cadek cameron@burns.ey.byu.edu Cameron McNairy 371-5720 cc@xilinx.com Colin Carruthers cfreese@super.org Craig F. Reese chari@xilinx.com Chari Madabhushi chaseb@netcom.com Bryan Chase chrissos@aphill.jhuapl.edu Nick S. Chrissostomidis Christian.Iseli@di.epfl.ch Christian Iseli chumnarn@nwg.nectec.or.th Chumnarn Punyasai cjensen@netcom.com Colin Jensen cjr@hplb.hpl.hp.com Chris Robson clstampe@mailbox.syr.edu Chris Stamper coffin@marge.neocad.com Eric Coffin cowen@essex.ac.uk Cowen C P d.wo@ee.mu.OZ.AU David Wo D6B@ecl.psu.edu d89-ahg@ludd.luth.se Anders Hedberg d90-men@sm.luth.se dahl@hing.LCS.MIT.EDU Matt Dahl dave@xilinx.com Dave Lautzenheiser davidc@ee.uts.edu.au David Chung davidp@qpsx.oz.au David Pascoe dinesh@civic.ece.cmu.edu Dinesh D. Gaitonde dinesh@thor.ece.uc.edu Dinesh Bhatia dm@hri.com dollas@ics.forth.gr Apostolos Dollas dom@hplb.hpl.hp.com Dominic McCarthy Dominique.Lavenier@irisa.fr Dominique Lavenier dong@fizzle.ee.washington.edu Dong-Lok Kim dreamcat@icicle.winternet.com Scott M. Ferris drg@csri.toronto.edu Dave Galloway dth@cs.duke.edu Dzung T. Hoang duncan@super.org Duncan A. Buell DWOODW@elaine.ee.und.ac.za Duncan Woodward Eberle@cs.inf.ethz.ch edellinger@neocad.com Eric Dellinger eea80593@yankees.ee.nctu.edu.tw Chuang Hsien-Ho een5sf@sun.leeds.ac.uk eggert@tattoo.twinsun.com Paul Eggert ehennenhoefer@VNET.IBM.COM Eric Hennenhoefer ekeith@marlin.nosc.mil Elaine G. Keith emilne@cognex.com Ewan Milne en269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Julie K. Stahlhut es@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Endric Schubert fasttech!zeke@uu4.psi.com Bohdan Tashchuk fir@iis.fhg.de fischer@arcserv.dasd.honeywell.com fmw@gensym.com Fred White fred@atmel.com Frederic.Petrot@masi.ibp.fr Frederic PETROT fross@descartes.super.org Bradley Kendall Fross FUZZZ@argonaut.com James Hakewill GaLlif!yadallee@ERsys.EDmonTON.Ab.cA The Doctor gcaw@hplb.hpl.hp.com Greg Watson Gehring@cs.inf.ethz.ch Geoffrey.Strongin@amd.com gick@iis.fhg.de STEPHAN GICK Glenn.Jennings@sm.luth.se grahamc@paprika.ee.byu.edu Charles Graham GRAHAMJ@stimpy.fp.co.nz Jeff Graham grahamp@fpga.ee.byu.edu Paul Graham gt5450c@prism.gatech.edu KHAN,UBAID R. guccione@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Steve Guccione hamish@xilinx.com Hamish Fallside hare@xilinx.com H.K. Verma harvard!yale!microvation.com!gerryb@Think.COM Gerry Belanger heard@btr.btr.com Charles M. Heard heard@btr.com Heeb@cs.inf.ethz.ch Henk.Neefs@elis.rug.ac.be Henk Neefs herbert@harris.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at Herbert Gruenbacher hjp@ee.umr.edu Hardy Pottinger holen@netcom.com Victor A. Holen hutch@timp.ee.byu.edu Brad Hutchings iak@hplb.hpl.hp.com Igor Kostarnov Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk Ian Pratt ian@neocad.com Ian McEwen irigoin@chailly.ensmp.fr Francois IRIGOIN irving@vlsi.polymtl.ca irving lustigman J.Mawer@sheffield.ac.uk john mawer jackg@xilinx.com Jack Greenbaum jangr@microsoft.com jayar@eecg.toronto.edu Jonathan Rose jbabb@hing.LCS.MIT.EDU Jonathan Babb jcleary@waikato.ac.nz jcloete@mikomtek.csir.co.za Laurens Cloete jcrow@shannon.uvic.ca Jacqueline E. Crow jdb@neocad.com Dave Bunte jdresser@Tymnet.COM Jay Dresser jff@k2.mrc.uidaho.edu Jim Frenzel jfisher@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com Josh Fisher jimmy@itchy.fc.hp.com Jim Eldredge jjl@studion.com jkruse@neocad.com Jim Kruse jlr@world.std.com John L Redford jlwatson@netcom.com NewCo jma@super.org Jeffrey M. Arnold jmdaluz@kquest.com Jose M. daLuz jmg@tecmic.tecmic.pt Jose Guimaraes jn53747@cs.tut.fi Nousiainen Juha Antti Jo.Depreitere@elis.rug.ac.be Jo Depreitere joachim@matematik.su.se Joachim Hollman John=R=Klein%DSL%MSDTWK@vines.msd.ray.com John@minster.co.uk John Hadjioannou Jon.Gunnar.Solheim@idt.unit.no joshua@xilinx.com Joshua Silver jpg@xilinx.com John Gray jrw@vlsi.bu.edu Jay Wasserman juarez@die.upm.es Eduardo Juarez Martinez kab@Data-IO.COM Karen Bartlett karsh@audio.esd.sgi.com Bruce Karsh kasperek@uci.agh.edu.pl kelvin@cs.iastate.edu Kelvin Nilsen Kenneth_Pocek@ccm11.sc.intel.com kentd@netcom.com Kent Dahlgren khan@ele.kth.se Mozammel H Khan khellah@eecg.toronto.edu Muhammad Khellah kherron@ms.uky.edu kirkman@oceanus.mitre.org W. Worth Kirkman Kjell.Torkelsson@eua.ericsson.se Kjell Torkelsson koopman@casun2.res.utc.com Phil Koopman x1624 krste@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Krste Asanovic lalone@jericho.mc.com Jim LaLone lam@xilinx.com Luis Morales lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Hugh LaMaster -- RCS linder@ERC.MsState.Edu Dan Linder liralen@netcom.com Phyllis Rostykus lisbetu@hsr.no lofgren@uvs1.orl.mmc.ccom John Lofgren loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu Nathan Loofbourrow louie@CS.UCLA.EDU lss@aloft.att.com lester.sanders ludwig@inf.ethz.ch Stefan Ludwig maniar@charlie.ece.scarolina.edu Prashant B. Maniar Marc.Vieillot@irisa.fr Marc Vieillot mark_indovina@pts.mot.com Mark Indovina marleen.ade@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Marleen Ade martine@cse.ucsc.edu Martine Schlag matwood@sunset.cs.utah.edu Mark Atwood matzke@tardis.hc.ti.com Doug Matzke maxj@hpcvrp.cv.hp.com Max Jones maya@super.org Maya B. Gokhale mbarnett@cs.uidaho.edu Michael Barnett mbm@dsbc.icl.co.uk Malcolm Mladenovic mbutts@netcom.com Mike Butts mc@msss.com Mike Caplinger mcgett@xilinx.com Ed McGettigan mew@lems.brown.edu Mike E. Wazlowski mfx@cs.tu-berlin.de Markus Freericks Michael.Brady@cs.tcd.ie Michael Brady Michael.Hermann@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de Michael Hermann michaelg@xilinx.com Michael Glaviano michaelt@SSD.intel.com Michael Tchou mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at Michael Gschwind milos@CS.UCLA.EDU Dr Milos Ercegovac moran@die.upm.es Javier Moran Carrera mrg@cs.ubc.ca Mark Greenstreet mrstampe@mailbox.syr.edu Marjorie R. 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Quinn rajeev@xilinx.com Rajeev ralf@WPI.EDU Ralph Valentino rap@cse.iitb.ernet.in R A Parekhji ratha@pixel.cps.msu.edu ravi@cs.binghamton.edu Ravindra Divekar reinoud@remove.et.tudelft.nl R. Lamberts rep@dcs.ed.ac.uk Richard.Black@cl.cam.ac.uk Richard Black Rick.McNeal@Central.Sun.COM Rick McNeal rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. 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Swail S_JUFFA@irav1.ira.uka.de tame@ugsparc0.eecg.toronto.edu TAM ERNEST CHI YUI terjem@hda.hydro.com tessier@catfish.LCS.MIT.EDU Russ Tessier thomae@trantor.harris-atd.com Doug Thomae Thomas.Roewekamp@gmd.de Thomas Roewekamp I5.EIA tim@pldote.fm.intel.com Tim Ellerbruch tlb@swl.msd.ray.com Tom Brown {82465} tm90la@hh.se Lars Nilsander tomk@xilinx.com Tom Kean touati@prl.dec.com Herve' Touati tower.tssi.com!backbone!wayne@notes.tssi.com Wayne Schlitt trevor@xilinx.com Trevor Bauer ttessier@ball.com Thomas D. Tessier (303-939-5487) twurtz@neocad.com Tom Wurtz urh@specs.de Ulrich R. Herken vallepal@asylum.cs.utah.edu Narendra Vallepalli verdonck@imec.be Carl Verdonck vjs@lenkkari.cs.tut.fi Vesa Savela vkj@netcom.com V K Jayakumar volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at Volker Hamann vova@ham.mics.msu.su Vladimir V. Turin vspa@eng.auth.gr Vasilis Spais walterm@NSD.3Com.COM Walter Morton wam@neocad.com Walt Manaker wanagin@kingkong.escape.de Ulf Bahrenfuss wasarin@toro.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp Jungsuwadee Wasarin Wayne.Luk@comlab.ox.ac.uk weinhard@ira.uka.de Markus Weinhardt %Dec95% wiesel@ltisun11.epfl.ch Andre Wiesel willy@macwiley.cuug.ab.ca Willy Gonnason Wirth@cs.inf.ethz.ch wirthlim@fpga.ee.byu.edu Michael J. Wirthlin wittig@eecg.toronto.edu Ralph D. Wittig wrath@cs.umbc.edu Vijay Gill yanni@db.toronto.edu Yanni Jew yaron@lsi-logic.co.uk yaron kretchmer yeh@eecg.toronto.edu David Yeh ylin@nthu.edu.tw Youn-Long Lin yodaiken@prism.nmt.edu Victor Yodaiken Voted No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ antersbe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Stefan Antersberger egbert%garfy@teralon.gun.de Egbert Hinzen elt@irony.com Ed Taychert fsspr@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu Sean P. Ryan ggw@wolves.durham.nc.us Greg Woodbury j414@midway.uchicago.edu mary-frances jagod jfields@asic.qntm.com Julian Fields jfortt@dorsai.dorsai.org Joseph Fortt jim@carlstedt.se James Brown John.Pope@Eng.Sun.COM John Pope john@vcc.com John Schewel jrm@globalvillag.com John R. MacWilliamson m8646@msg.abc.se Allen Ristovic marvin@ibmoto.com Marvin Denman peterb@telerama.lm.com Peter G. Berger rjw@cleese.apana.org.au Robert Wozniak sc@vcc.com Steve Casselman siamak@kaiwan.com Siamak Ansari srogers@tps.mcs.eds.com stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown tjkim@archi.snu.ac.kr Kim Taejin WARD@bert.van.forintek.ca Ward F. Bush Abstained ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ cward@Think.COM Christopher Ward mmt@RedBrick.COM Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS nils@wildcat.dartmouth.edu Nils Nieuwejaar