ALF Meeting Minutes (07/16/97)

Here are the action items from
the ALF meeting on July 16th in LSI.

· Wolfgagn will followup on the collaboration with Europe and Japan.
Kent and Amir will follow up on leveraging connections of Mentor and Viewlogic in the efforts in Europe and Japan to speed up the communication with them.
· Amir will followup with Tom VandenBerge on collaboration with VSI and also the latest developments in the ASIC council.
· Wolfgang and Amir will update ALF executive overview on the IP issue. They will also update the ALF road-map and send it the representatives of each participating company for feedback and approval.
· Kevin Grotjohn will send the PDEF list on pin properties such that we can choose a subset to be kept in ALF.  For more elaborated physical information for floor-planning and placement PDEF should be used in conjunction of ALF.  After we received the list from Kevin, there will be a conf. call for a preliminary discussion.
· Tim Ehrler will e-mail an extension for ALF to cover physical info like must_short,... using a connectivity matrix or table.
· Ta-Yung Liu continues to lead the effort on the BNF and possible parser. He will send an updated version of BNF to be added in LRM. There will be another conf. call, after Ta-Yung send the latest BNF, to discuss the remaining parsing issues.
· Johnson Limqueco and the Ambit team will review the ALF functional description capabilities in detail and send the feedback by e-mail.
· The issue on how simpler tools should Handel more detailed ALF information is still open. For a more detail discussion on how DEFAULT mechanism can help on this please consult Wolfgang's minutes on the June 11th timing meeting. Please everybody send his or her comments on this issue. We try to possibly have a conf. call on this before the next meeting.
· Wolfgang will incorporate the result of the discussion on sequential primitives. This includes the enhancement of the sequential primitives to describe different behaviors in more details by using virtual pins ,.. .Also, dual-input and possibly n-input sequential primitives will be added.
· Hamid and Tim Ayres already brought up the remaining issues on test.
The result of this discussion will be incorporated in LRM.
· Wolfgang incorporates the feedback from the above efforts in the ver. 0.8 of LRM.