SV-BC Meeting Date: Monday, August 30, 2010 Time: 9:00am-11:00am PDT Toll Free Dial In Number in North America: 1-888-813-5316 Caller Paid Dial In Number: 1-650-584-6338 Meeting ID: 7839818 3101 Day 0629 0000 Month 8887 1111 Year 0000 aa-a Matt Maidment - Intel -aaa Brad Pierce - Synopsys aaaa Mark Hartoog - Synopsys a-aa Dave Rich - Mentor Graphics aaaa Gordon Vreugdenhil - Mentor Graphics aa-a Alex Gran - Mentor Graphics --aa Heath Chambers - Consultant/Trainer aa-a Tom Alsop - Intel aaaa Cliff Cummings - Sunburst Design aaaa Shalom Bresticker - Intel -aaa Don Mills - LCDM Engineering aaaa Arnab Saha - Mentor Graphics a-aa Daniel Schostak - ARM --aa Kaiming Ho - Fraunhofer Institute aaa- Steven Sharp - Cadence aaaa Francoise Martinolle - Cadence a-aa Eric Coffin - Mentor Graphics ---- David Gates - AMD a--a Peter Flake - Elda Technology ---- Scott Little - Freescale ---- John Havlicek - Freescale --- Rishiyur Nikhil - BlueSpec ---a Jonathan Bromley - Verilab --a- Greg Jaxon - Synopsys Agenda + Review IEEE patent policy http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Reviewed. + Previous Meeting Minutes http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/minutes/sv-bc_10_08_16.txt Cliff moves to accept the minutes. Tom seconds. Opposed: None. Abstain: Eric (did not attend) Motion passes. + Progress/Discussion for Top 10 Looking for proposal sketches or discussion for any of these issues. 696 - Champion: Tom 2310(1084, 1201) - Participants: Eric, Tom, Shalom, Steven, Wilson Snyder 3053 - Participants: Francoise, Mark, Alex, Kaiming 3055 - Participants: Gord, Mark 2991 - Champion: Tom, Participants: Steven 1566 - For future discussion 2114 - Similar to 3053. Have same group look at it. 210 - Participants: Shalom, Matt 3056 - Champion: Shalom, Participants: Steven, Francoise Eric analyzing 2310. Asked about the meaning of newline: is it CR+LF (widely popular consumer operating systems) vs. LF (widely popular engineering operating systems). General consensus is 'LF'. + SV-DC 'real' net proposal Steven provided an overview of this issue. SV-DC has so far reached no consensus on a solution. Not sure if they want 1 real number or a group of them (current, voltage, etc.). Gord attending the DC and Steven considering participating. Issues being investigated: resolution, new or reuse of existing capabilities, how to integrate with assertions, coverage, etc. Looking into Verilog-AMS features, too. Still in the early stages. + Weaker Interface Type Checking Peter sent an email to the reflector regarding weaker interface type checking: http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/hm/10523.html Initial feedback is this might be complex and inefficient. Peter will consider feedback and consider revising. 10:15 AM PDT Cliff moves to adjourn. Action Items Outstanding 05/10/10 Matt create Master Issue for WG-approved SV-BC Top-25 07/19/10 Matt follow-up about voting rules for technical sub-committee. Is there a limit on the number of reps from 1 entity? 07/19/10 Dave to post request to reflectors for clarification of 2108 07/19/10 Jonathan post some items for discussion related to 2114 to reflector. 08/02/10 Brad give SV-BC feedback on Mantis 2992 to Mehdi 08/02/10 Eric start reflector thread on Mantis 2310 08/02/10 Gord meet F2F with Mark when in Bay Area 08/16/10 Tom write up class static method examples and explanation for inclusion in clause 8 and reference in clause 13 and 3.8. 08/16/10 Brad update Mantis items passed by email vote. 08/16/10 Matt to rethink 210 in terms of configuration and alias. 08/16/20 All send Shalom feedback about prioritizing the issues raised in port declaration issue summary: http://www.eda.org/sv-bc/hm/10498.html