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SV-EC Operating Guidelines

The following guidelines were approved in December 19th 2005 meeting.  

 


 

Committee Mission

A.    Address P1800 SV-EC Errata

Goals/Objectives       

A.    Resolve reported issues related to P1800 SV-EC

Process

A.    Review all appropriate errata for P1800 SV-EC

B.     All work will be voted on as per the voting guidelines

C.     The SV-EC web site will be the primary repository or all work and communication

Donation/Proposals

Donations not accepted at this time.

Errata

All changes to the existing LRM to fix errors, refine concepts, or clarify descriptions will be handled as errata. All errata will be tracked via the SystemVerilog Mantis data-base  (http://www.eda.org/svdb).  The committee will:

 

A.    review all submitted issues

B.    resolve them as appropriate

C.    generate change notices for all changes

D.    notify submitter of the resolution

 

This will require each errata to include the following information:

 

A.    Problem description

B.    Example of problem

C.    Submitters name

D.    Submitters email

E.    Section(s) of LRM related to issue

 

Voting Structure

Voting is used to resolve issues in a number of areas; process, technical discussions, acceptance and approval of submissions, resolution of errata, approving the LRM and sending it to the board, etc.

 

 

Member based votes:

These votes are for issues that are primarily in technical in nature and do not require P1800 membership. The following are examples of individual based votes:

 

A.    Resolution of errata

B.    Technical decisions in the review and refinement of submissions

Voting Rules

Voting guidelines are as follows:

 

A.    Attendance

a.       Voting attendance is reset as of the first SV-EC Errata Resolution Meeting.

b.      Individuals that were eligible to vote at the end of the P1800 Ballot Issue resolution process will be eligible to vote at the beginning of P1800 Errata Resolution process (with the assumption that they have 3 out of the last 4 SV-EC meetings attended).

c.       Individuals must attend 3 out of the last 4 regularly scheduled meetings to be eligible to vote or must have attended at least 75% of the meetings during the Errata resolution effort.

d.      Company votes are based on a designated individual’s attendance record (including proxy specification).

B.    Committee Vote

a.       All votes require majority of the eligible votes attending the meeting to pass. Voting rights calculated based on meetings that have been announced at least 1 week in advance. A quorum of 50% of the eligible individuals must be present for individual votes.

b.      The Chair of the committee is not eligible to vote on individual votes unless there is a tie in which case the chairs vote is used to break the tie. Co-chair can vote as an individual except in the case where the co-chair is acting as the chair due to the chair not being present.

c.       The Chair of the committee is not eligible to vote on company votes (unless he is the only company representative on the committee). If there is a tie then the TCC chairs vote is used to break the tie.

C.    Email vote

a.       A vote for email can be called by the chair/co-chair.

b.      The period for response will be one week (can be adjusted by agreement before the vote to a different period within committee).

c.       Any negative vote will force the issue to be discussed and voted on at a committee meeting. A negative vote must be accompanied with a clear description of the reasoning behind it.

d.      If there are no negative votes and half of the eligible voters respond with an accept vote then the motion will be passed (the Chair of the committee is not eligible to vote on email votes).

e.       The purpose of the email-vote is to pass items that are non-controversial and to reduce the time required to handle them in meetings.

Milestones

A.    Ongoing to resolve P1800 Issues

Deliverables

                Update the resolved issues in the SystemVerilog Mantis data-base  (http://www.eda.org/svdb).