Subject: Re: Minutes of meeting 10/01/02
From: Michael Rohleder (michael.rohleder@motorola.com)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 01:45:06 PDT
Yatin,
I think two points were missing. I inserted them.
Regards,
Michael
Yatin Trivedi wrote:
> Attendees:
>
> - Stuart Swan (Cadence)
> - Francoise Martinole (Cadence)
> - John Stickley (Mentor)
> - Doug Warmke (Mentor)
> - Emerald (Mentor)
> - Johnny (Mentor)
> - Michael Rohleder (Motorola)
> - Bassam Tabbara (Novas)
> - Ghassan Khoory (Synopsys)
> - Joao Geada (Synopsys)
> - Andrzej Litwiniuk (Synopsys)
> - Michael McNamara (Verisity)
> - Swapnajit Mittra (SGI)
> - Tarak Parikh (@HDL)
> - Kevin Cameron (National Semiconductor)
> - Alain Raynaud (Tensilica)
> - Yatin (ASIC Group)
>
> Minutes:
>
> o Yatin explained that some emails were not forwarded by the email
> reflector
> because those emails came from a domains that the reflector did not
> recognize.
> Yatin will send the list of email addresses that the reflector has in
> its
> record.
>
> o The minutes of the last meeting (9/24) were approved.
>
> o Yatin clarified that the previous voting guidelines he sent was for
> increasing participation in the voting process. He has sent questions
> about this to Accellera's board and has not heard back from them. In
> absence of any clarification from the board, the guideline for
> eligibility for procedural voting would be
> - One company, one vote
> - Only Accellera member companies may vote.
> - Attendance must be > 75 % or 3 out of last 4 meetings to vote.
> This meant 4 companies could vote for DirectC donation: Cadence,
> Novas, Synopsys and Motorola.
One more question was whether the attendance is counted on a per-member or per-company basis. Yatin said he will clarify this with the TCC.
> o DirectC donation was accepted with 3 votes in favor and 1 against.
>
> o In reply to Swapnajit's question, Yatin clarified that once accepted,
> a proposal for changing or enhancing a donation can be made by any
> member
> and the issue will be decided over vote. The donor will not have any
> particular privilege in deciding the changes.
>
> o Michael asked Yatin about the procedure going forward to keep track
> of the issues. Yatin replied that an action item will be opened for each
> issue that needs further discussion, it will be properly documented and
> will be slated for a vote if needed.
>
> o Kevin will synchronize with SV-EC on behalf of SV-CC regarding the
> pointer type variable.
>
> o A face-to-face meeting of SV-CC has been tentatively scheduled on
> 12th Nov in San Jose. Yatin will send out an email later.
>
> o Joao presented the Assertion API donation. Some of the questions
> that came up were:
> - Is it possible to access the individual expressions of an
> assertion ? Joao answered this capability now exists.
>
> - Is there a list of requirements for assertion API ? Yatin
> said it was already there on the SV-CC web page.
>
> - Does the assertion API provides mechanism to provide "near hits" ?
Is there any dependency from the assertion API on the actual language selected by the assertion API DWG? Joao said the only dependency he sees is a set of enums defining the assertion states that might need to be updated.
> - Kevin asked why System Verilog itself is not sufficient to
> provide the capabilities that the assertion API is providing ?
> The members decided to take the discussion offline over email
> exchange.
>
> - Ghassan proposed a vote on the donation of assertion API. Yatin
> will
> send an email on eligibility. The email vote should be cast
> by Monday (10/07) 6:00pm PST.
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