Minutes of the January 17, 2005 SV-BC Meeting (Design Modeling Committee) 

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aaaaa Matt Maidment       - Intel               
a-aaa Brad Pierce         - Synopsys 
aaaaa Karen Pieper        - Synopsys           
aa-a- Dan Jacobi          - Intel              
--aa- Dave Rich           - Mentor Graphics     
a-aaa Francoise Martinolle- Cadence              
aaaaa Mark Hartoog        - Synopsys  
-aa-- Rishiyur Nikhil     - Bluespec   
-aa-- Cliff Cummings      - Sunburst Design 
a--aa Steven Sharp        - Cadence                   
-aaaa Stuart Sutherland   - Sutherland HDL 
aaaaa Don Mills           - LCDM Engineering 
--aa- Logie Ramachandran  - Synopsys                      
aaaa- Surrendra Dudani    - Synopsys 
-aa-a Doug Warmke         - Mentor Graphics 
aaaaa Kathy McKinley      - Cadence            
--aa- Greg Jaxon          - Synopsys              
-a--- Jonathan Bradford   - Micronas              

Agenda: 

+Review IEEE patent policy 
   http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt 
  
The patent policy was read.

+Review Previous Meeting Minutes 
   http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_04_12_20.txt

Surrendra moved to accept the minutes of the December 20 meeting.
Kathy seconds.
No opposed.
Abstain: Brad.
Motion Passes.

+Update on LRM Draft & Review Process

The LRM draft is done but needs to be secured prior to distribution.  
Securing & distributing should happen any day.  The timeline is for the 
sv-bc to complete its review by Jan 24, end of day.  The goal is to have 
any issues resolved in time for the Jan 26 P1800 meeting.

The mechanics of the review process are:

   Once an issue has status:acknowledged, the appropriate SV-* committee 
   must review the LRM to ensure that changes for correctness.
     a.  If the change is correct, the issue is moved to status:closed
     b.  If the change is not correct and the description was correct, the
         issue is moved to category:SV-LRM and status:new, and mail is sent
         to the LRM team
     c.  If the change is not correct and the description of the change 
         needs to be modified, the issue is changed to status:assigned

In addition the sv-bc agreed that:

  For each sv-bc issue the assignee should be the one to review the LRM to 
  ensure the change is correct and to update the status accordingly in the 
  SVDB.

  For issues whose changes were determined the sv-bc committee to be
  non-trivial, one or more additional reviewers were identified.  The 
  additional reviewer(s) will report the status of their review(s) to the 
  issue assignee.  The issue assignee should wait for all of the additional 
  reviewer(s) before updating the status of their issue(s).

  For those assignees who were absent from today's meeting, a secondary
  reviewer was assigned to review and potentially update the status
  in the event the issue assignee is not available.  Unless specifically 
  noted otherwise below, Brad agreed to review issues assigned to Dave Rich
  and Nikhil, and Matt agreed to review issues assigned to Doug Warmke.

  Here is the list of Issues/Additional Reviewer(s) for Non-Trivial Changes

  012 - Dan
  020 - Dan
  021 - Steven
  034 - Dan
  038 - Brad
  039 - Dave
  051 - Francoise
  074 - Brad
  076 - Surrendra
  091 - Dan
  110 - Steven
  111 - Brad
  115 - Mark
  163 - Brad
  164 - Dan
  168 - Kathy, Matt, Steven
  213 - Brad
  216 - Brad
  218 - Steven
  226 - Steven
  254 - Surrendra
  272 - Brad
  273 - Matt
  276 - Karen
  291 - Brad
  302 - Matt
  315 - Mark
  321 - Matt
  322 - Dan
  323 - Dan
  327 - Matt
  328 - Matt

  The sv-bc identified LRM sections relevant to the committee that are to 
  be reviewed on a more holistic basis by the committee.  Below is the list 
  of relevant sections & corresponding reviewers:

  01/Introduction             - Karen
  02/Literals                 - Steven
  03/Data Types               - Surrendra
  04/Arrays                   - Brad
  05/Data Declarations        - Don
  07/Operators & Expressions  - Francoise
  08/Statements               - Brad
  10/Tasks & Functions        - Brad
  18/Hierarchy                - Kathy
  19/Interfaces               - Karen
  21/Parameters               - Brad
  22/Configurations           - Mark
  23/System Tasks & Functions - Matt
  24/VCD                      - Steven
  25/Compiler Directives      - Don
  Annexes                     - Brad

  The reviewers agreed to send email to reflector by Jan 24 acknowledging
  completion.

NOTE: Please send mail to reflector with any issue not logged in the SVDB.

+Future Activities

NOTE: Any work on issues that are currently 'open' or 'new' in the SVDB
will not apply to the LRM draft currently in progress.

NOTE: Karen requested that issue priorities not be changed for now and
that and new issue be filed at normal priority or below.  This will avoid 
conflict with the current LRM process.

The Committee agreed to review the list of 'open' and 'new' SV-BC issues
for the Jan 31 meeting.  Matt will try to send out his attempt at 
categorizing the list to the reflector.

The list of potential enhancements initially identified are:
  2-value net types
  real value on net types

Please send any other ideas to the reflector or file in the SVDB directly.


Brad moves to adjoun.
Mark seconds.
Next Meeting: Jan 31, 2005.

Action Items

Completed
12/20/04 Stu    Update proposal to 328 per motion. 
12/20/04 Stu    File keyword command line switch enhancement in SVDB (354)

Pending
11/30/04 Steven Close issue in BTF database equivalent to SVDB Issue 328