Minutes of the January 5, 2004 SV-BC Meeting (Design Modeling Committee) 

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---------------a Tom Kiley - Mentor 
aaaaaa-aaaa--aaa Matt Maidment - Intel 
aaaaa-aaaaaaaaaa Brad Pierce - Synopsys 
a-aaaaaaaaaaaa-a Karen Pieper - Synopsys 
aaaa-a-aaaa---aa Johny Srouji - Intel 
aa---a--aa-aaaaa Dan Jacobi - Intel 
-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Dave Rich - Synopsys 
aaaa-aaaa-aa-aaa Francoise Martinolle- Cadence 
---a-a-aaaa-aa-a Jay Lawrence - Cadence 
--------aaaaaaa- Dennis Brophy - Mentor 
-----------a--a- Vassilios Gerousis - Infineon 
-aaa-aa-aa-aaa-- Cliff Cummings - Sunburst Design 
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-- Mark Hartoog - Synopsys 
-a--------a--a-- Don Mills - LCDM Engineering 
--aaa-aa--aa---- Doug Warmke - Mentor 
aaaaaaaaaaaa---- Rishiyur Nikhil - Bluespec 
-------a-a-a---- Stu Sutherland - Sutherland HDL- 
a-aaaa-aaa------ Peter Flake - Synopsys 

Meeting Minutes: 
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Matt moves we accept the minutes of the last meeting.  Mark 
seconds.  No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

New Action Items: 
================= 

Johny to discuss schedule with Vassilios and adjust SV-BC meeting 
schedule if necessary. 
	Done

Dave to make a proposal for SV-BC 105 and 124 (one proposal will 
cover both) and a proposal for the issue of message 1376 from 
Paul Graham. 
	Done

Cliff to review his proposal for SV-BC 54 against Draft 2 and send 
his proposal out by the end of Jan. 5 to the reflector for an e-mail 
vote to be closed on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 5pm EST. 
	Done

Johny to conduct e-mail vote on Cliff’s proposal for SV-BC 54. 
	Done

Issues: 
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54:  Peter moves that we accept the proposal.  Brad seconds.
	No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

159:  Brad moves that we close the issue as a duplicate.  Nikhil
	seconds.  No opposed.  No abstain. Passes.

105, 124, 162:  Modify the Saturday proposal from Dave with:
	In section 2.7 replace 
		Each replication represents one dimension.
	With:
		A replication expression only operates within one dimension.


	In section 2.8 replace:
		Replicate operators can be used to represent their 
		exact number of members.

	With:
		Replicate operators can be used to set the values for the
		exact number of members.


	In section 7.13, strike addition starting

		An unpacked array expression can ....

	And ending:
		n[3] = y;


	In section 7.13 change
		types keys
	to 
		type keys

	
	In section 7.13 change
		When the braces include an index, type ...

	With
		When the braces include a type...

	
	In section 7.13 replace

		the braces are syntactically distinguished from being a concatenation...

	With

		the braces shall not be interpreted as a concatenation...
		

	Strike in 7.13
		that has not been matched by an index above

	
	In section 7.14 replace

		the braces are syntactically distinguished from being a concatenation...

	With

		the braces shall not be interpreted as a concatenation...
		

	Karen moves that we accept the proposal as modified.  Nikhil seconds.
	No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.


165:
	Remove in 3.10 

		Adding a constant range in the enum can be used to set the type.

		
	In 3.10:  Replace

		// Error in the bronze and gold member declarations
		enum [3:0] {bronze=5'h13, silver, gold=3'h5} medal4;
		// Error in c declaration, requires at least 2 bits
		enum [0:0] {a,b,c} alphabet;

	With

		// Error in the bronze and gold member declarations
		enum bit [3:0] {bronze=5'h13, silver, gold=3'h5} medal4;
		// Error in c declaration, requires at least 2 bits
		enum bit [0:0] {a,b,c} alphabet;

	Brad moves that we accept the above change.  Matt seconds.  No opposed.  NO abstain.
	Passes.

	Matt moves that we accept the proposal in issue 165.  Brad seconds.
	No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.

Message 1463:
	Brad moves that we accept this proposal.  Karen seconds.  NO opposed.
	Francoise abstain.  Passes.

Message 1473:	
	Brad moves that we accept this proposal without amendment.  Karen seconds.
	Francoise opposed.  Matt abstains.  Passes.

Message 1478:
	Brad moves that we accept this proposal.  Karen seconds.  No opposed
	No abstain. Passes.

Karen proposes:
CHANGE 2ND PARAGRAPH OF SECTION 11.21 FROM
    Identifiers on the left side of the scope-resolution operator (::) can be only class names.

TO:
 
    Identifiers on the left side of the scope-resolution operator (::) can be class names or package names (see Section 18.2).


Karen moves.  Francoise seconds.  No opposed.  No abstain.  Passes.


Karen will send mail to Dave to see if he wants to discuss his 
proposals on Wednesday.
	
	
Meeting adjourns. 

Our next meeting is 01/21/04 at 9am Pacific, but that date 
is subject to change based on Dave Rich's desire to revisit issue
105 changes above.