DC-WG: 11/9 meeting minutes

Mark Hahn (mhahn@cadence.com)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:59:45 -0800

Meeting minutes from the 11/9/99 DC-WG teleconference
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Attendees:
Mark Hahn, Cadence
Tom Dewey, Mentor
Bob Dilly, IBM
Jim Engel, IBM
John Paul, IBM
Vikas Sharma, IBM

New action items:

Who When What
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1. Bob 11/16 Send Mark contact info for Magma
2. Tom 11/16 Complete updates to 0.1.1 spec from review
3. Tom 11/16 Investigate ways to automatically extract
examples from the document

Open action items:

Who When What
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1. Vikas 11/9 Review derived_waveform and derived_clock

Closed action items:

Who When What
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1. Mark 11/9 Send the GCF 1.4 spec to Bob and Tom
2. All 11/9 Review pages 19-21, 25-32 in the spec
3. Mark 7/27 Prepare Microsoft Project schedule for the
-> 11/9 second half of '99.

Next Meeting:

The next meeting will be a teleconference on 10/26
from 9-11 am (PDT).

Details:
1. Review action items

Mark posted a first pass at the schedule for completing the
DCDL spec on the web site, as well as the GCF 1.4 spec (for
DC-WG review purposes only).

2. Review the Introduction and Basic Language Features sections
in the draft (pp 19-21, 25-32)

We went through a lot of detailed feedback, covering up to
page 26 in the 0.1.1 version. A few highlights:
- We agreed that there DCDL should impose a define before use
restriction, as it will significantly ease application development
- We want to be able to extract examples from the text and
automatically verify correctness
- In general, DCDL will explicitly specify syntax rules that
are identical to the rules in a specific version of Tcl (to
be chosen). In some cases, where the Tcl rules are too arcane,
DCDL may specify a more restrictive rule that still ensures
Tcl compatibility
- Fine points about legal white space are deferred for now
- DCDL keywords include the '-' (dash)

3. Discuss derived clocks
4. Discuss schedule and technical editing requirements

We ran out of time to discuss these.

Thanks,
Mark

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Mark Hahn                                          phone: (408) 428-5399
Senior Architect                                   fax:   (408) 428-5959
Cadence Design Systems                             email: mhahn@cadence.com