Minutes of the April 11, 2005 SV-BC Ballot Resolution Committee Meeting 1000 Day 1641 0000 Month 4444 0000 Year 5555 aaaa Matt Maidment - Intel aaaa Brad Pierce - Synopsys aaaa Karen Pieper - Synopsys ---a Dan Jacobi - Intel aaaa Dave Rich - Mentor Graphics ---a Rishiyur Nikhil - Bluespec aaaa Cliff Cummings - Sunburst Design a-aa Steven Sharp - Cadence ---a Don Mills - LCDM Engineering -aaa Logie Ramachandran - Synopsys aaaa Gord Vreugdenhil - Mentor Graphics aaa- Francoise Martinolle- Cadence a-a- Kathy McKinley - Cadence a-a- Doug Warmke - Mentor Graphics aaa- Mark Hartoog - Synopsys --a- Greg Jaxon - Synopsys --a- Stuart Sutherland - Sutherland HDL --a- Dennis Brophy - Mentor Graphics aaa- Surrendra Dudani - Synopsys ---- Tom Fitzpatrick - Mentor Graphics ---- Jonathan Bradford - Micronas Agenda +Review IEEE patent policy http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Reviewed. +Review Previous Meeting Minutes http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_05_04_01.txt http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_05_04_04.txt http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_05_04_06.txt Brad moves to accept the minutes. Cliff seconds. No opposed. No abstain. Motion passes. +Issue Resolution Issue 202 (SVDB 627) Doug moves to accept proposal in SVDB 627 Brad seconds No opposed. No abstain. Motion passes. Issue 226 (SVDB 623) Brad moves to accept proposal in 623 as amended: 1. date - data 2. then - had then been Some questions on the implications to force were raised. Will be revisited in April 12th meeting. Issue 244 (SVDB 632) Dave moves to accept proposal in SVDB 632. Mark seconds. No opposed. No abstain. MOtion passes. Issue 6 (SVDB 336) Steve moves to accept proposal in Mantis issue 336. Cliff seconds No opposed. No abstain. Motion Passes. 264: Karen moves: The committee read and considered this feedback. While it has merit, the committee believes it is either not feasible to implement at this time or not in the scope or goals of the P1800 project as it was defined & agreed upon by the P1800 WG Gord seconds Opposed: No. Abstain: No. Motion Passes. Issue 229 (from SV-EC) Dave moves to accept proposal in Mantis 644 amended to update syntax in 4.1 & 4.4, accordingly. Cliff seconds. No Opposed. Abstain: Steven (Late for such an enhancement) Surrendra (Late for such an enhancement) Brad (Too large of a change to be made so late) Karen (Too large of a change to be made so late) Kathy (Too large of a change to be made so late) Francoise (Too large of a change to be made so late) For: Dave, Cliff, Gord, Mark, Doug Motion Fails. The SV-BC did not approve this out of fear, uncertainty & doubt regarding such issues as: -continuous assignment to variables -initializer passed with with Type through parameters Dave moves to communicate the following to the SV-EC: The SV-BC did not pass the proposed resolution to issue 229 as captured in Mantis #644. The motion failed with only abstention. Brad seconds. Opposed: no. Abstain: no. Motion Passes. Issue 35 Steve moves to accept proposal entered in Mantis #578 on 4/6 10:44 Francoise seconds. Opposed: Mark (if start converting ports to wires then the port direction is no longer meaningful). Cliff (not thought through enough) Brad Dave Karen Surrendra No Abstain. Motion Fails. Next Meeting, Tuesday, April 12th 8-10am PDT Action Items Completed 04/01/05 Karen Ask Johny for the purpose of the 'WG Resolution' column 04/01/05 Steven will review and propose solution for issue 6 at the April 4 meeting. 04/01/05 Brad to assign issue 29 to Gord 04/01/05 Karen to provide Gord with SVDB account 04/01/05 Dave to propose solution to issue 216 at the April 4th meeting http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/hm/2869.html 04/01/05 Brad enter issue 269 into SVDB (628) 04/04/05 Cliff make proposal for issue 264 for April 6 04/04/05 Brad to update proposal for issue 226 for April 6 04/04/05 Matt notify SV-EC about proposal for 244 04/04/05 Karen ask submitter of issue 202 to provide example demonstrating how reordering bind statements produces different results. Pending 04/01/05 Brad to propose solution to issue 91 at the April 4th meeting 04/04/05 Stu make a specific proposal for Issue 265 no later than April 13 04/11/05 Matt make proposal for 216 04/11/05 Matt move 632 to resolved and add note that identifies it as forwarded to the EC 04/11/05 Brad transfer proposal in SVDB 336 to html for Stu 04/11/05 Matt communicate result of 229 to SV-EC 04/11/05 Steven make alternate proposal for issue 35.