[$ieee-1850] IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting - 8 March 05 - Minutes

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IEEE 1850 PSL Working Group Meeting
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Location: Teleconference
Date: 8 March 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
  Jasper             DR: Johan Mårtenson;		DR: Johan Alfredsson
  Sun                DR: Tom Thatcher
  Intel              DR: Alexander Levin

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)
v    (+++++++++++++++++)  Jasper (DR: Johan Mårtenson)
v    (+++++_++_+_++++++)  Sun (DR: Tom Thatcher)
v    (_++______________)  Intel (DR: Alex Levin)

     (____+__+__+++_+__)  Infineon (DR: Klaus Winkelmann)

  Observers:
     (++_+_____++_+++++)  Joseph Lu (NVidia)
     (+_+++++_++++++++_)  Tej Singh (Mentor)
     (+_+++__________+_)  Richard Wallace (Northrop Grumman)
     (+_++____+_++_+++_)  Andrew Seawright (Mentor)
     (+_+_++_+_++_+++++)  Mohamed-Lyes Benalycherif (ST)
     (+_______+++__++++)  Dana Fisman (IBM/Weizmann Institute)
     (_++++++____+_+___)  Cindy Eisner (IBM)
     (_+++++___++_+____)  Andrea Fedeli (ST)
     (__+++++++++++_+++)  Johan Alfredson (Jasper)
     (__+______++__++++)  Bassam Tabbara (Novas)
     (___++__++++++++++)  Avigail Orni (IBM)
     (___++____+_++_+__)  Adriana Maggiore (AltraVerifica)

   Inactive:
     (_______++++_+__++)  Sitvanit Ruah (IBM)
     (__________+__+___)  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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  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 8:04am 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: Richard; second: Tej: no objections)

The minutes of the last meeting were approved.  (Motion: Richard; second: Joseph; no objections)


Old Action Items:
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Harry: email a copy of the IEEE Services contract to each DR. (Still TBD)

New Action Items:
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Noelle: send out invitation to ballot letter

Old Business:
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1. Membership Update

As of this meeting, Intel is now a working group member.

2. Schedule Review

(Discussed under next topic)

3. IEEE Support Services

Introduced Noelle Humenick, who will be work working with the 1850 working group to complete the standardization process.

Noelle summarized the schedule.  (See http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850/docs/P1850_schedule_v2.xls.)

Invitation to ballot will go out today, to corporate representatives.  DRs should ask Noelle who their primary corporate representative is, if necessary, and confirm that they are the designated representative for their company in the IEEE 1850 WG.

Invitation to ballot period will end on 7 April.  Ballot will run 12 April - 12 May.  Ballot resolution will be 13-26 May.

Re-circulation ballot will be necessary if there are any negative votes with comments, or any changes to the draft - including typos.

Noelle summarized eligibility requirements for balloting.

Pre-ballot editorial review will occur concurrently with invitation to ballot, based on draft 3.  Harry will provide the source files later this week.  Pre-ballot review will focus on content.  Harry is still working on simplifying the process of merging Annex B into the rest of the LRM.

Andy Ickowicz will ask us to approve the cover letter for the ballot.  Andy will coordinate with us during the ballot process.  We should cc: Noelle on all communications.


4. Coordination with Other IEEE Working Groups

Coordination with IEEE 1666 SystemC
 - Erich summarized interest in and discussions about transaction-level PSL in SystemC.

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 can be found at http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850/Issues/Issues.html).

No new issues were reported this past week.

2. Extensions Subcommittee (Erich)

No changes since the last working group meeting

3. LRM Subcommittee (Harry)

Currently reviewing 3rd draft.  Fourth draft will be assembled over the coming weekend.


New Business:
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None.

Next Meeting:
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The date for the next meeting of the working group remains to be determined.  The next meeting of the LRM subcommittee will occur on Tuesday March 15, 2005 starting at 8am PDT, and continuing 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: Tom; second: Johan M.; no objections)

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:37am PST.

(A meeting of the LRM SC followed the WG meeting, from 8:37am until 10:00am PST.)

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