Attendees:
Mark Hahn, Cadence
Tom Dewey, Mentor
Bob Dilly, IBM
Ed Martinage, Cadence
Greg Schulte, Cadence
Vikas Sharma, IBM
Jim Swift, IBM
New action items:
Who When What
---------- ------ --------
1. Tom, Bob 7/27 Send description of additional open issues
encountered during DAC demo development
2. Tom 7/27 Send example of mixed BNF/man page documentation
style
3. Mark 7/27 Prepare table of contents
4. Mark 7/27 Prepare Microsoft Project schedule for the
second half of '99.
Open action items:
Who When What
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1. Mark 3/2 Add operating conditions to the taxonomy
-> 7/13
2. Bob, Vikas 5/25 Review the GCF 2.0 draft on operating conditions
-> 7/6
Closed action items:
Who When What
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1. Mark 6/8 Send one-gate correlation example to IBM
2. Bob, Mark, 6/15 Prepare demo scripts with talking points
Tom
3. All 6/15 Send Mark email with availability during
DAC (Mon-Wed) for presenting the demo
4. Ed 6/8 Send updated startup_DAC script to IBM
5. Mark 6/15 Find out when the exhibit hall opens on
Sunday
6. Mark 6/15 Find out whether there are any restrictions
on the OVI exhibitor badges
7. Bob 5/18 Get authorization to use the IBM logo
-> 6/15
8. Tom 6/1 Prepare 3 slides to go with demo: tool-specific
marketing, plans to support DCDL, details on
current support
9. Bob, Vikas 5/25 Prepare instructions and background on Einstimer
-> 6/15
Next Meeting:
The next meeting will be a teleconference on 7/27
from 1-3 pm (PDT).
Details:
1. Review results of DAC activities
Everyone thought that the DAC demo was very successful.
Traffic at the booth was initially light but picked up
during the week, and we gave the demo to many key people.
We also distributed most of the 500 handouts.
Although enough people signed up to get the Birds of a Feather
scheduled, it was poorly attended. There seemed to be too
many BOFs competing for the same pool of people.
2. Planning for the second half of '99
a. Identify key unresolved issues
b. Define top level schedule for completing
DCDL draft spec by the end of the year
We came up with the following unresolved issues:
- operating conditions
- name mapping rules
- parasitics boundary conditions
- organization of taxonomy vs DCDL spec documents
- BNF versus man page style for syntax description
- use of positional parameters versus strict keyword/value
pairs
- file size issues in pure DCDL (bit ranges will help,
but will expanding embedded find commands and patterns
be too expensive?)
- formal design object types (port, pin, instance,
cell, net, library, design, etc.)
- tags
We talked about the rough schedule, which should target
- first draft complete for internal review by end of October
- final draft complete by end of November
Intermediate milestones include
- DCDL spec table of contents defined
- documentation tool chosen
- taxonomy/DCDL spec organization and relationship finalized
- sample constraint description finalized (arrival time)
- taxonomy complete
- syntax complete
- semantics complete
Thanks,
Mark
-- Mark Hahn phone: (408) 428-5399 Senior Architect fax: (408) 428-5959 Cadence Design Systems email: mhahn@cadence.com