Summary:
The kickoff was very successful, with 15 people
attending, representing 12 companies and 1 university.
We reviewed previous work, agreed on the desired set of
deliverables, arranged a time for an on-going bi-weekly
teleconference, and assigned a number of action items.
Attendees:
Mark Hahn, Cadence (Chair)
Jin-sheng Shyr, Toshiba (Co-Chair)
Vassilios Gerousis, Motorola
Adam Osseiran, ECSI/EIG
Cliff Cummings, Sunburst Design
Enrico Malavasi, Cadence
Karen Bartleson, Synopsys
Jean Mermet, ECSI
Cary Wei, Fujitsu
Devadas Varma, Ambit
Ravi Srinivasan, Texas Instruments
Dave Potter, Lucent
Ellis Cohen, Exemplar/Mentor
Andres Teene, Symbios
Victor Berman, VHDL International
Action Items:
Who When What
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1. All Friday, 3/27 Send a brief e-mail describing your Point
Of View
on the charter and scope of DC-WG to Jin
(shyrj@taec.com)
2. Jin Before 4/1 Summarize the POVs on charter and scope
teleconference
3. Mark asap Write up meeting minutes (done)
4. Mark, Ravi Before 4/1 Prepare an outline of the overall
architecture
teleconference for the standards document, as well as a
list of
terms to be included in a glossary
Next Meeting:
The next meeting will be a teleconference on Wednesday, 4/1,
from 9-11 PST. The logistics and agenda will be described in
a follow-up mail later this week.
Details:
We covered the agenda/presentation slides prepared by Mark and Jin,
and had some good discussion on the nature of design constraints
as well as the process for developing the standard. An updated
version of the presentation reflecting several suggestions (particularly
the list of constraint domains) is available on the DC-WG web site.
We discussed potential deliverables and agreed that we should
define a catalog of the types of constraints and their parameters,
and use that catalog to define a constraint command language.
There was general agreement on the suggestions in the presentation
for how to make the working group successful.
In the area of topics for investigation, Enrico expressed interest
in the mixed signal constraints area as a possible sub-group.
News:
The DC-WG web site, e-mail reflector, and e-mail archive have been
established on the vhdl.org machine.
The web site is at http://www.vhdl.org/dcwg
The e-mail reflector is dcwg@vhdl.org, and mail sent to that address
will be automatically forwarded to all of the attendees as well as some
other interested people. It will also be stored in the e-mail archive,
which is accessible through the web site.
Thanks,
Mark