[sv-cc] SV-CC agenda for 12/08/2004

Hi All,

The call-in information for this meeting is as follows:

   U.S. 866-807-0627
   International 203-955-5179
   Passcode 399143

Meeting will start at 11:30am EST (4:30pm GMT), and last for 1.5 hours.

      -Chas

AGENDA

1. Review Patent information

   Go to:
     http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

2. Review minutes from last meeting (12/01/2004)

3. Liaisons

   - Chas/Francoise to report on Champions meeting.
   - Anyone care to make a report?

4. New business

   - 201 More details needed on DPI string argument handling
   - 334 null bytes in strings
   - 050 Change DPI svLogicVec32 representation to match PLI/VPI aval/bval representation
   - 064 Note 20 of section 31.10 is unclear
   - 333 VPI support for types on wires
   - 053 VPI access to instances and packages is incorrect
   - 054 What is the vpiFullName of a package?
   - 055 fullnames of declarations in the global scope of a compilation unit
   - 056 vpi_handle_by_name on imported items?
   - 062 Conflicting vpiArray property descriptions in 31.10
   - 077 VPI diagram for instances shouldn't refer to reg objects
   - Others?

5. Review SV-CC items with proposals:

6. Review SV-CC items with proposals (Straw poll only):

7. Review old business:

  SV-CC action items:
   - Francoise to ask Peter Ashenden what was done to improve
     printing from Rational Rose.
   - Francoise to inquire about the feasibility of third parties
     shipping the UML for the diagrams.
   - Bassam to update 265 as amended.
   - Michael to update 158 as amended.
   - Sachi to drive finding a better solution for 052.
   - Chas to add colors to proposals for 310 and 040.
   - Chas to add Stu to SV-CC email alias.

   PTF action items:
   - Steve to compare BNF with the access available
     for attributes to see if they match
   - Francoise to remove "+" from tags in UML diagrams and
     add vpi prefix where appropriate.
   - Francoise to send out HTML for 1364-2001 diagrams, using
     something other than JPG for importing diagrams into frame.
   - Stu to write proposal for PTF 368.
   - Francoise to write proposals for PTF 373, 374, and 396.
   - Steve to write proposals for PTF 311, and 495.
   - Sachi to write proposals for PTF 307, 312, and 313.
   - Stu to enter new PTF item for save/restart/reset issue.
   - JimG to write proposals for PTF 517, 533, and 534.
   - Chas to write proposal for PTF 296.
   - Francoise to lookup wording for PTF 524 in VHPI.
   - Francoise will open a new PTF issue to look for situations like 25.6.15,
     where multiple methods are used access the same object enclosure
   - Chas to reword proposal for PTF 525.
   - Draft a straw man proposal using a clean slate with no concern for
     existing PLI/VPI on the best way to represent all Verilog and
     SystemVerilog kinds and types. This straw man will then be used as a
     basis for discussing backward compatibility with the existing reg, net,
     variables, functions, and parameter diagrams. It may be decided that
     full backward compatibility is not possible, or is not the best approach
     moving forward.
   - Sachi will file a PTF item for the clarification of what can be done
     at ROsync time and putting values in future times.
   - Francoise to file a PTF item that asks to specify the order that iteration
     occur in, when the order is important.
   - Steve to add ETF item for Annex C to remove the Informative label, but
     still allow the contents to be option

-- 
Charles Dawson
Senior Engineering Manager
NC-Verilog Team
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
270 Billerica Road
Chelmsford, MA  01824
(978) 262 - 6273
chas@cadence.com