Resolution of IMs 201, 202, 216

Greetings ITC techies,

In addition to my action items of the previous e-mail
I thought I would see if I could propose ways of
moving IMs 201, 202, and 216 further along.

Re: IM 201

I would like to propose that we resolve IM 201.
I think this is a fairly easy one to reach closure on. Basically
the SystemVerilog types currently specified in the working
document are the ones I think we've by and large reached
consensus on. I realize that for Verilog and VHDL we're
tabling the discussions but lets at least nail down the
allowed SystemVerilog types.

With the committee's agreement I would like to propose that
we rewrite at least the SystemVerilog portion of section 3.1.3
to make it look more like the formal text that would go
into a specification - i.e. clean up by taking words like
"recommended", "proposed", etc. and consolidating the tables
on page 11 and 12.


Re: IM 202

I think we actually reached consensus on this some time ago
so perhaps now is a good time to add a section addressing it.

Basically the consensus was to not allow exported functions
to call imported functions but to allow imported functions
to call exported functions. This would retain, at a minimum,
the basic functionality provided by SCE-MI 1 in terms of
call recursion. At this point I don't see a reason to
go beyond this for SCE-MI 2.

Would it make sense to add a section to the working document
stating this so we can think about closing it out ?


Re: IM 216

In addition, I noticed in the last version of the working
document, sections 5.2 and 6.1.2 can be combined. The IM
in 5.2 is falsely labeled as IM 203 when it is really IM 216.
I would like to propose that we re-work the document to
combine these sections and also to add some text clarifying
when it makes sense to use ratio based clocks and when
to use period based clocks along the lines of the discussion
we had next week.

-- johnS

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