DC-WG: 6/20 meeting minutes


Subject: DC-WG: 6/20 meeting minutes
From: Mark Hahn (mhahn@cadence.com)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 06:30:31 PDT


Meeting minutes from the 6/20/00 DC-WG teleconference
-----------------------------------------------------

Attendees:
  Mark Hahn, Cadence
  Paul Bonnel, Cadence
  Tom Dewey, Mentor
  Bob Dilly, IBM
  Vikas Sharma, IBM

New action items:

      Who When What
      ---------- ------ --------
 1. Mark 6/27 Check on absolute versus increment semantics
                           for clock_uncertainty
 2. Mark 6/27 Create a list of additional commands which
                           could use -absolute and -increment or -worst

Open action items:

      Who When What
      ---------- ------ --------
 1. Mark 6/20 Check on semantics for clock waveforms with
                  -> 6/27 edges shifted by one or more cycles from equivalent
                           minimum edge times

 2. Bob 6/20 Prepare waveform diagrams for waveform and
                  -> 6/27 derived_waveform

 3. Mark 6/20 Check on phase shift in derived_waveform
                  -> 6/27 (effect on ideal edge position versus effective
                           edge position)

 4. Mark 6/20 Check whether derived_waveform frequency adjustments
                  -> 6/27 can be real numbers

Next Meeting:

  The next meeting will be a teleconference on 6/27/00
  from 10-12 am (PDT)

Details:

  1. DAC reports

     Not much feedback from Kent Moffet and Karla Reynolds.

  2. Action items

     Bob and Mark both deferred their action items to 6/27; Bob
     made some progress on the waveform diagrams but didn't finish yet.

  3. Terminology and clock_required_time

     We reviewed and approved the Basic Terminology section with
     no changes. We made minor changes to the clock_required_time
     semantics description.

  4. derived_clock

     We agreed to merge the derived_clock functionality into the
     clock command by adding options for specifying the parent
     clock root as a port or pin. The parent clock root is used
     in automatically calculating the actual phase shift between
     the parent clock root and the derived clock root.

  5. clock_uncertainty

     We agreed to use -from/-to instead of -source/-target, for
     consistency with the disable command. We also changed the
     value type to a list of one or two values (early and late),
     and tentatively changed the default semantics to -increment,
     pending Mark's action item.

Thanks,
Mark

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Mark Hahn                                          phone: (408) 428-5399
Senior Architect                                   fax:   (408) 894-3479
Cadence Design Systems                             email: mhahn@cadence.com



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