Minutes of the April 18, 2005 SV-BC Ballot Resolution Committee Meeting

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aaaaaaa Matt Maidment       - Intel               
aaaaaaa Brad Pierce         - Synopsys 
-aaaaaa Karen Pieper        - Synopsys           
aaaaaaa Dave Rich           - Mentor Graphics     
a--aaaa Cliff Cummings      - Sunburst Design 
aaaa-aa Steven Sharp        - Cadence                   
----aaa Logie Ramachandran  - Synopsys                      
aaaaaa- Mark Hartoog        - Synopsys  
aaaaaaa Gord Vreugdenhil    - Mentor Graphics
aaaaaa- Francoise Martinolle- Cadence              
a-aa-a- Kathy McKinley      - Cadence            
aaaa-a- Doug Warmke         - Mentor Graphics 
a--aaa- Surrendra Dudani    - Synopsys 
-a---a- Greg Jaxon          - Synopsys              
-----a- Stuart Sutherland   - Sutherland HDL 
-----a- Dennis Brophy       - Mentor Graphics
------a Don Mills           - LCDM Engineering 
------a Dan Jacobi          - Intel              
------a Rishiyur Nikhil     - Bluespec
------- 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_14.txt

Brad moves to accept the minutes.
Gord seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes.

+Issue Resolution

The Champions Committee requested clearer wording for the resolution to 
SVDB #624.
AI: Gord to reword proposal for SVDB #624 including reference to 1364-D5 
    Clause 12.2.1

Issues 224/277 (SVDB 619)

Some friendly amendments were proposed:

Strike "at elaboration time"

Change:
  to the type of an expression

To:
  to the data type of an expression


Change:
  It can also be used in equality/inequality and case equality/inequality
  comparisons with other type references

To:
  It can also be used in equality/inequality and case equality/inequality
  comparisons with other type references, and such comparisons are considered
  to be constant expressions.


Brad moves to accept proposal as amended.
Dave seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion Passes.
  
Issue 21 (SVDB 513)

Change:
  where the instance-port name and type match the connecting variable-port 
  name and equivalent type.

To:
  where the instance-port name matches the connecting port name and their data 
  types are equivalent.

Change:
  An implicit .port_identifier port connection between two dissimilar net 
  types

To:
  An implicit .port_identifier port connection between nets of two dissimilar
  net types

Change:
 an explicit .name port connection.

To:
 an explicit named port connection.

Steven moves to accept the proposal as amended.
Brad seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion Passes.

Issue 29 (SVDB 548)
Dave moves to accept proposal dated 4/4/2005 in the Bug Notes.
Steven seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion Passes.

Next meeting tentatively scheduled for Thursday, April 21, 8am-10am.

Action Items

Completed
04/11/05 Brad transfer proposal in SVDB 336 to html for Stu
04/12/05 Brad enter proposal for 578 in html
04/11/05 Steven make alternate proposal for issue 35.
04/12/05 Brad enter proposal for STU1 in html & Mantis for Stu.
04/14/05 Francoise to make a proposal for issue 21 based on type equivalence
04/14/05 Brad to modify proposal for 224/227 according to consensus direction
04/18/05 Brad update proposal for SVDB 619 as amendmended & mark as resolved.
04/18/05 Dave add html version of proposal to SVDB 548

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