Minutes of the April 21, 2005 SV-BC Ballot Resolution Committee Meeting

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aaaaaaaa Matt Maidment       - Intel               
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a-aaaaaa Karen Pieper        - Synopsys           
aaaaaaaa Dave Rich           - Mentor Graphics     
aa--aaaa Cliff Cummings      - Sunburst Design 
aaaaa-aa Steven Sharp        - Cadence                   
-----aaa Logie Ramachandran  - Synopsys                      
aaaaaaa- Mark Hartoog        - Synopsys  
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aaaaaaa- Francoise Martinolle- Cadence              
aa-aa-a- Kathy McKinley      - Cadence            
aaaaa-a- Doug Warmke         - Mentor Graphics 
aa--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

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_18.txt

Amendment: Next meeting should read April 21 not April 19

Francoise moves to accept minutes as amended
Brad seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes.

+Schedule

Revised schedule:

May  2 Monday	Champions meeting	
May  5 Thursday	P1800 meeting 8am to 10am
May  9 Monday	Champions meeting
May 11 Wednesday  Champions meeting 
May 19 Thursday	P1800 meeting
May 24 The draft of the LRM with all of the changes incorporated will
       be available for final review
May 27 Comments on the May 24th draft are due to Stu
May 31 The Balloting LRM is ready
June 2 P1800 meeting to send the balloting draft back to reballot 

All agreed on future SV-BC meeting Schedule:

April 25, 8-10am
May 9, 9-11am

AI: Brad & Matt enter issues without Mantis entries
Brad: 216, 275, 285, 286 
Matt: 287, 225, 228, 257, 265, 266

Francoise agreed to investigate 93(SVDB 510)
Brad agreed to investigate 275/226.

+Issue Resolution

228
Dave proposes:

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

Cliff seconds.
Opposed: Brad (would like to see it in)
No abstain.
Motion passes.

AI: Dave drive issue 227 (SVDB99 & SVDB324)

SVDB 624
Amendment: "same restriction: a defparam"
Brad moves to accept amended proposal.
Steven seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes.
 
266

AI: Brad file issue regarding 8.16 language: "operator to each function
prototype according to the equivalent argument data types in the overloaded
expression, which normally must match exactly."

12.17 - OK
29.5.2 - Mantis #432 removed the NOTE & changed the last sentence.
         Cliff to drop this from the proposal.
30.2.2.2 - Cliff punt to SV-CC
32.2-32.49 - Check with SV-CC
E.8.2
11.4.3 - The use of default values shall only be allowed with ANSI-style
         declarations.
6.6- Mantis #646 addresses the second proposed change.  
     Drop it from 266 proposal.

AI: Matt include 266 in email vote.

286
Dave moves that issue 286 be resolved with the following response:

"The changes made during the balloting process necessitate the use of
 the var keyword."

Karen seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes.
AI: Brad to enter resolution to 286 in SVDB
  
91 (SVDB 506)
Brad moves:

Move 

Unlike nonlocal parameters, local parameters can be declared in a generate
block, in a package, or in a compilation unit scope. In these contexts, the
parameter keyword can be used as a synonym for the localparam keyword.

to the second paragraph of 20.2.2

Francoise seconds.
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes. 
AI: Brad to enter resolution of 91 in SVDB 506

273 (SVDB 304)
Brad moves to accept proposal
Cliff seconds
No opposed.
No abstain.
Motion passes.

AI: Matt send email ballot for the following issues:
 152
 154
 155
 266
 287

Next meeting Monday, April 25, 8-10am.

Action Items

Completed
04/01/05 Brad to propose solution to issue 91 at the April 4th meeting

Pending
04/04/05 Stu make a specific proposal for Issue 265 no later than April 13
04/11/05 Matt make proposal for 216
04/21/05 Brad create Mantis entries for Ballot issues:
         216, 275, 285, 286
04/21/05 Matt create Mantis entries for Ballot issues:
         287, 225, 228, 257, 265, 266
04/21/05 Dave drive issue 227 (SVDB99 & SVDB324)
04/21/05 Brad file issue regarding 8.16 language: "operator to each function
  prototype according to the equivalent argument data types in the overloaded
  expression, which normally must match exactly."
04/21/05 Matt include 266 in email vote.
04/21/05 Brad to enter resolution to 286 in SVDB
04/21/05 Brad to enter resolution of 91 in SVDB 506
04/21/05 Matt send email ballot for ballot issues: 152, 154, 155, 266, 287