[$ieee-1850] IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting - 25 January 05 - Minutes

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IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting
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Location: Teleconference
Date: 25 January 2005
Presiding Officer:  Yaron Wolsthal, Vice-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)
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)
     (+++___++_+____)  Andrea Fedeli
     (++_++_+_++++++)  Tom Thatcher (Sun)
     (++__++++++++++)  Avigail Orni (IBM)
     (++____+_++_+__)  Adriana Maggiore (AltraVerifica)
     (++__________+_)  Richard Wallace (Northrop Grumman)
     (+____+_++_+++_)  Andrew Seawright (Mentor)
     (+_____++_+++++)  Joseph Lu (NVidia)
     (_++_+_++_+++++)  Mohamed-Lyes Benalycherif (ST)
   Inactive:
     (____++++_+__++)  Sitvanit Ruah (IBM)
     (_____+++__++++)  Dana Fisman (IBM/Weizmann Institute)
     (______++__++++)  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: Cindy; second: Steve: no objections)
The minutes of the last meeting were approved.  (Motion: Erich; second: Tej; no objections)
Old Action Items:
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Harry: Ask the sponsor(s) to review and approve our modified P&Ps.
Harry: Arrange for the LRM SC to merge the proposed LRM changes for each chapter.
officers: Complete the IEEE Support Services contract.
Old Business:
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1. Membership Issue Update
Yaron reported that Intel has indicated that they will join the working group.
2. Schedule Review
The schedule remains unchanged until we can put the IEEE support services contract in place, at which point we can revised the schedule with consultation from the IEEE.
3. IEEE Support Services
Yaron reported that Dennis has agreed to have Accellera serve as collection agent for memberships fees.
Lynn Horobin of Accellera will shortly issue invoices for membership fees.  (It may be delayed due to DVCon.)
4. Coordination with Other IEEE Working Groups
Coordination with IEEE 1666 SystemC
 - no update
Coordination with IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog
 - no changes - LRM is being finalized for SystemVerilog
Coordination with IEEE 1076 VHDL
 - working on organizing a review meeting; no status change w.r.t. PSL
Subcommittee Reports:
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1. Issues Subcommittee (Erich)
The Issues List can be found at http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850/Issues/Issues.html).
Two new issues (both simple LRM editorial errors) were reported last week.
2. Extensions Subcommittee (Erich)
The subcommittee is working towards finalizing all proposals by the deadline for inclusion in the June LRM.  The original deadline for this was January 18, but that meeting was postponed until this week, and therefore the deadline was postponed until this week also.
3. LRM Subcommittee (Harry)
No activity.
New Business:
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Erich reported on the decision by the IEC to award a DesignVision Award for PSL v1.1.  The award will be presented on February 1 at DesignCon.  The nomination was made by the IEEE 1850 officers several months ago, on behalf of Accellera, IBM, and all the companies that participated in the development of Accellera PSL.  A few weeks ago, the officers learned that the IEC had decided to present an award for PSL.  A press release has been put together and reviewed by the IEEE as well as by the various companies providing quotes.  The press release will be issued by the IEEE, as coming from the IEEE 1850 PSL working group.
Next Meeting:
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The next meeting of the working group will be held on Tuesday February 1, 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.
Adjournment
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Attendance was checked again, by roll call.
Motion to adjourn - (motion: Cindy; second: Steve; no objections)
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:26am PST.
(A meeting of the Extensions SC followed the WG meeting, from 8:26am until 10:00am PST.)
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