Minutes of ALF conference call, Monday March 1, 11:00AM - 12:30PM

Attendees:

Mike Andrews		Mentor Graphics
Arun Balakrishnan	NEC
Tim Ehrler		VLSI Technology
Ted Elkind		Cadence
Darshan Rauniyar	Mentor Graphics
Wolfgang Roethig	NEC
Sergei Sokolov		Sente Inc

Review of ALF 1.0.10

A.I. update reviewer name list -- Wolfgang

Chapter 1.3	Target application
		changed "RTL floorplanning" to "RTL design planning"
		and some wording around.

A.I. Name specific topics within RTL design planning which are supported by ALF
-- all

A.I. make an explicit statement about E=C*Vdd**2 in the context of power modeling:
Whether C*Vdd**2 is in the library or not, the power analysis tool is NOT supposed
to calculate C*Vdd**2 on its own.
-- Sergei, Wolfgang

A.I. add a subchapter in 2.3 for introduction of signal integrity
-- Mike, Wolfgang

Chapter 3.4.2	Expressions
		introduced new terminology for different kinds of
		vector expressions. BNF rules are preserved.

A.I. correct BNF with bracketed paranthesis
change "[(] <item> [)]" into  "( <item> ) | <item>"
-- Wolfgang

Chapter 3.4.5	Operators
		ditto. Terminology change without BNF change

Chapter 3.4.17	Cross-reference of BNF items
		updated with new terminology

Chapter 3.5.4	Vector operators
		update on some calculation rules

Chapter 3.6	Context-sensitive keyword
		reorganized this chapter, moved subchapters
		so that things belonging together are close

		updated definitions for SCOPE, FROM, TO,
		LIMIT, EARLY, LATE
		added INITIAL_VALUE
		updated MEASUREMENT and waveform description

A.I. cosmetic changes in 3.6: 1 inch = 25.4 mm, edit figure 3-18,
put ":" consistently before each table with context-sensitive keywords
-- Wolfgang

A.I. add statement "initial value is used for behavioral model, as far
as supported by simulator" -- Wolfgang

Chapter 3.9.4	Initial values for logic variables
		changed according to new keyword

o.k.

Chapter 3.11	Parameterizable cells
		changes in the examples

Chapter 3.12	Modeling with vector expressions
		Completely new chapter, was a standalone document
		previously.

A.I. review thoroughly by Thursday. Essentially new sections are 3.12.8,
 3.12.14, 3.12.15, 3.12.16. Content of the other sections was in the
previously reviewed standalone document.
-- all