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Power.org Committees

The mission of Power.org is to develop, enable, and promote Power Architecture technology innovation, specifications, and solutions that will promote and grow the Power Architecture ecosystem.

The Power.org Committees are where this mission is being carried out.  Our member companies and their representatives actively collaborate in the development of guidelines and specifications that the organization will establish.  All of our members including our developer-level members are welcome to download the specifications and outputs produced by the committees. 

Membership at the Founder, Sponsor, or Participant-level is required if you want to join any of the committees or vote on pending issues and specifications. Please consider having your company join as a Founder, Sponsor, or Participant-level member.  Click here to learn more about the different levels of participation.

Board of Directors The Board of Directors directs the activities and affairs of Power.org.

Marketing Committee Drive Power.org's marketing activities.

MWG - Old Web Content (Not active) Marketing subcommittee is responsible for content for keeping the web site up to date with fresh compelling content.

Operations Committee The Operations Committee is responsible for the financial operations of the Organization, including the creation of a financial plan designed to ensure the long term financial viability of the Organization.

Technical Committee Establish and the maintain overall technical vision and goals for Power.org. Responsible for forming and supervising Technical Subcommittees that develop reports, specifications and reference designs.

TSC - Platform Architecture A Technical Subcommittee. Define and publish base platform architecture standards to facilitate development of compliant components and products.

Power Architecture Advisory Council Membership on the Advisory Council is open to Founders and Sponsors who meet the criteria for Advisory Council membership. The Advisory Council meets to discuss ISA Contributions to the Power Architecture ISA and to vote on whether to make recommendations to IBM regarding such ISA Contributions.

TWG - Disruptive Play An informal Technical Workgroup (not a formal Technical Subcommittee). Provide a collaborative environment in Power.org to develop disruptive plays around Power Architecture.

MWG - Developer Corner Content A Marketing Committee Working Group. Access content for Power.org Developer Resource Corners.

MWG - Power Conference A Marketing Committee Working group working on the Power.org Developer's Conference.

Power Brand Advisory Council The Power Brand Advisory Council defines and executes the Power Architecture brand system strategy and brand identity programs. The PBAC consists of members of the Power Architecture Advisory Council and Associate Members from the Power.org Founder and Sponsor Membership.

TWG - Software Initiatives An informal Technical Workgroup (not a Technical Subcommittee) chartered to define the scope of a Technical Subcommittee that will help build, manage, and maintain a well rounded applications portfolio for Power Architecture.

TSC - Common Debug Interface A Technical Subcommittee. Identify areas for a common debug environment, interface and methodology (both software and hardware).

TSC - Embedded Hypervisor A Technical Subcommittee. This TSC will identify or develop a common set of software virtualization interfaces for various Power ArchitectureTM implementations. It also seeks to implement those interfaces as an open source hypervisor based on the Linux kernel.

TSC - Application Binary Interface A Technical Subcommittee. Will create a set of unified ABI documents under neutral licensing that reflect the merged Power Architecture specification and existing coding standards (documented and undocumented but implemented)

Power Academic Initiative Workgroup

MWG - Power Solutions Portal Define an online Power Architecture Solutions tool that will guide users to specific solution options and suppliers of products and services that can best help them accomplish their development objectives.

Power Research Workgroup

TSC - Virtual Platforms and Simulation A Technical Subcommittee whose objective is to enable best of breed ecosystem around modeling virtual platforms and simulation to support pre-silicon system design assessment, design optimization, and support HW/SW co-design.

MWG - Events Team This cross-disciplinary team is responsible for guiding decision-making and implementation of Power.org-hosted "live" events.

Communication Team The Communication Team is a working group within the Power.org Marketing Committee. We are charged with standardizing and coordinating marketing communication for the organization.

Power.org Corporate PR Representatives This group coordinates PR activities among Power.org's corporate members

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