Subject: Re: [sv-cc] DPI - supported data types
From: Francoise Martinolle (fm@cadence.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 10:13:27 PST
I believe that the clarification that Andrzej pointed out needs to make it
in the LRM
At 12:06 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, Swapnajit Mittra wrote:
> Andrzej,
>
>On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:57:08 -0500 (EST) Andrzej Litwiniuk
><Andrzej.Litwiniuk@synopsys.com> writes:
> > Team,
> >
> > It's very late, possibly too late for any non-trivial revisions to
> > DPI,
>
> Unfortunately, this is indeed too late. While making changes on
> small wordings like the one you suggested should not be
> a problem (as long as it is -very- well-defined), any implication
> because of such changes will be a different story. We just do
> not have any other way than to postpone them to 3.2.
>
> I happen to work for two other non-EDA standard committees
> (PCI-X 2.0 and PCI-Express 1.0a) where any clarification with
> potential big impact is done through release of separate
> white paper (essentially addendum) between major releases. If
> all of us agree this is something that can be done
> in our case (between 3.1 and 3.2), I will ask Vassilios for his
> permission.
>
> > A meticulous cross-checking is something that we really need.
>(Swapnajit,
> > is it what sv-ac team is supposed to do for us?)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrzej
>
> Yes, SV-AC will cross check our part of the LRM looking for
> any inconsistency. There are few other volunteers (outside SV
> committees) who are supposed to do the same.
>
> Having said that, it is unclear to me, however, how rigorous that
> process is going to be. As all of us are hard-pressed for time, my
> feeling is, in the end, it would be upto us to decide how clean we
> want the LRM to be.
>--
>Swapnajit Mittra
>Project VeriPage ::: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/verilog
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