[$ieee-1850] IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting - 11 January 05 - Minutes

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IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting
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Location: Teleconference
Date: 11 January 2005
Presiding Officer:  Harry Foster, Chair
Secretary:  Erich Marschner
Website: http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850
Members:
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  Accellera          DR: Harry Foster           DRA: Victor Berman
  Cadence            DR: Erich Marschner;       DRA: Steve Ward
  IBM                DR: Yaron Wolfsthal;       DRAs: Avigail Orni, Cindy Eisner, 
                                                      Sitvanit Ruah, Dana Fisman
  Mentor Graphics    DR: Steve Bailey;          DRA: Tej Singh
  Synopsys           DR: Surrendra Dudani;      DRA: Oz Levia
  Nokia              DR: Jari Kalinainen
Lapsed:
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  Infineon           DR: Klaus Winkelmann
Attendance Record:
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  Key:
      v : member (= voting priveleges) during this meeting
      + : present (leftmost = most recent meeting)
      _ : absent
  Members:
v    (++++_+++++_++)  Accellera (DR: Harry Foster) 
v    (+++++++++++++)  Cadence (DR: Erich Marschner)
v    (+++++++++++++)  IBM (DR: Yaron Wolfsthal)
v    (+++++++++++++)  Mentor Graphics (DR: Steve Bailey) (rep. by DRA: Tej Singh)
v    (+++++_+_+++++)  Synopsys (DR: Surrendra Dudani)
v    (++++++_++++__)  Nokia (DR: Jari Kalinainen)
     (+__+__+++_+__)  Infineon (DR: Klaus Winkelmann)
  Observers:
     (+++++++++++++)  Johan Mårtenson (Safelogic)
     (+++++++++_+++)  Johan Alfredson (Safelogic)
     (+++_++++++++_)  Tej Singh (Mentor)
     (+++____+_+___)  Cindy Eisner (IBM)
     (++_+_++_+++++)  Mohamed-Lyes Benalycherif (ST)
     (++___++_+____)  Andrea Fedeli
     (+_++_+_++++++)  Tom Thatcher (Sun)
     (+__++++++++++)  Avigail Orni (IBM)
     (+____+_++_+__)  Adriana Maggiore (AltraVerifica)
     (+__________+_)  Richard Wallace (Northrop Grumman)
   Inactive:
     (___++++_+__++)  Sitvanit Ruah (IBM)
     (____+++__++++)  Dana Fisman (IBM/Weizmann Institute)
     (____+_++_+++_)  Andrew Seawright (Mentor)
     (_____++_+++++)  Joseph Lu (NVidia)
     (_____++__++++)  Bassam Tabbara (Novas)
     (______+__+___)  Makarand Joshi (Cadence)
     (________+_+__)  Steve Ward (Cadence)
     (__________+__)  Limor Fix (Intel)
     (___________++)  Jin Hou (Synopsys)
     (___________++)  Peter Flake (Synopsys)
     (___________++)  Ben Cohen (consultant)
     (____________+)  J. Bhasker (eSilicon)
Agenda:
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Agenda: 
  Call to order 
    - Attendance Roll Call 
    - Patent Policy and Letters of Assurance 
    - Approve Agenda 
    - Approve Minutes of Last Meeting
  Old Business 
    - Membership Issue Update 
    - Schedule Review 
    - IEEE Support Services Update 
    - Coordination with Other IEEE Working Groups
  Subcommittee Reports 
    - Issues Subcommittee 
    - Extensions Subcommittee 
    - LRM Subcommittee
  New Business
  Next Meeting
  Adjourn 
    - Attendance Roll Call 
Call to order:
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The meeting was called to order at 8:03am PST.  
Attendance was recorded via roll call.
The IEEE patent policy slides were presented.  The working group was advised that the IEEE's Patent Policy is consistent with the ANSI patent policy; that early disclosure of patents which may be essential for the use of standards under development is encouraged; that such disclosures may not be exhaustive; and that the IEEE, the working group, and the working group chair cannot ensure the accuracy or completeness of any disclosure.  An opportunity was provided for the working group members to disclose patents that might be essential for use of PSL.  No patents were disclosed.
The agenda was approved. (Motion: Erich; second: Klaus: no objections)
The minutes of the last meeting were approved.  (Motion: Erich; second: Tej; no objections)
Old Business:
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1. Membership Issue Update
The P&Ps were revised on 21 Dec 2004 to reflect P&P changes approved in the meeting on that date.  They are now posted on the web, and have been forwarded to the sponsors for approval.
It is less clear whether we need to update P&Ps to reflect decision to charge membership fee.  SystemVerilog (IEEE 1800) did not do so.  Harry will review this with Dennis.
Jasper Design Automation will become an IEEE-SA member and begin attending WG meetings.
2. Schedule Review
The schedule spreadsheet is posted on the web, at: 
  http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850/docs/P1850-Schedule.xls 
The schedule will be updated after we put in place the contract for services.
We will stick to the decision to cut off additional issues after 18 Jan.  We also need to coordinate the various LRM change proposals to integrate potentially conflicting changes into one set of edits.  The LRM SC will address this.  Harry will schedule a meeting soon.
3. IEEE Support Services
No news - still trying to arrange a meeting with Dennis.  
Yaron is working on definition of a mechanism for collecting membership fees, which will be described in a letter to members in the near future.
4. Coordination with Other IEEE Working Groups
Coordination with IEEE 1666 SystemC
 - no update
Coordination with IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog
 - no update
Coordination with IEEE 1076 VHDL
 - no update
Subcommittee Reports:
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1. Issues Subcommittee (Erich)
The Issues List (at http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850/Issues/Issues.html) has been updated, and a request sent out for priority/disposition of new issues.
2. Extensions Subcommittee (Erich)
The subcommittee is working towards finalizing all proposals by the deadline for inclusion in the June LRM.
3. LRM Subcommittee (Harry)
No activity.
New Business:
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None.
Next Meeting:
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The next meeting of the working group will be held on Tuesday January 18, 2005 starting at 8am PDT, and lasting approximately 30 minutes, with an Extensions SC meeting continuing afterwards until 10am PDT.  Agenda and teleconference information will be sent out shortly.
[After the January 11th meeting, and before these minutes were issued, the meeting on January 18th was cancelled, so that the next meeting would be on January 25, 2005.  The deadline for extensions resolution was also extended to January 25, 2005.]
Adjournment
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Attendance was checked again, by roll call.
Motion to adjourn - (motion: Yaron; second: Cindy; no objections)
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:23am PST.
(A meeting of the Extensions SC followed the WG meeting, from 8:23am until 10:00am PST.)
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