ITC Meeting Minutes for May 26th

ITC Meeting Minutes for May 26th

Attendees

Duaine Pryor - Mentor
John Stickley - Mentor
Jeff Evans - Mentor
Matt Kopser - Cadence
Richard Newell - Aptix
Damian Deneault - Zaiq
Per Bojsen - Zaiq
Tom Peng - Zaiq
Jason Rothfuss - Cadence
Russ Vreeland - Broadcom
Sanjay Sawant - Tharas
Donald Cramb - Tharas
Bryan Sniderman - ATI
Edmund Fong - ATI

Activity

The Mentor proposal was discussed further, both addressing individual
questions raised and exploring it in general. Topics included:
- the mixing of old (SCEMI 1.x) models with DPI based models, how
to understand any interaction between them, what interaction is or 
isn't allowed, and whether reducing allowed interaction would be a
good simplification. John S promised written document or example
clarifying interaction and the retained elements of SCEMI 1.x
- existence of uncontrolled time with uncontrolled time, how to handle
it in the Mentor proposal, and whether the correlating questions exist
with the Cadence proposal
- the current precision of the combination DPI spec plus Mentor proposal
for non System Verilog language/RTL combinations
- a previous request was repeated for a complete example

Cadence plans to deliver a written document to explain or rebut
some comments on their proposal. This should be posted or emailed and
then followed up with discussion.

The idea of a compromise or merged proposal was raised by Richard N, 
and anyone is invited to come in with ideas for that at the next meeting.

In order to plan the evaluation and decision process, Damian requested
that all participants come to the next meeting with their input on 
what specifically they feel should be discussed, explored or clarified
before we can come to a decision or vote. We will try to lay out the
remaining decision process and timeline at the next meeting.

The next meeting is Thursday 6/2 at the usual 12pm/9am time.

Action Items

1. Cadence (Matt K) will post a written response document, before 
the 6/2 meeting.

2. Mentor (John S) will provide a document clarifying the portions of
SCEMI 1.x that are retained as part of the DPI based proposal, prior to
the 6/2 meeting.

3. Mentor (John S) will provide a complete example.

4. All participants come prepared to identify remaing discussion or
evaluation tasks at the 6/2 meeting.