[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting minutes for 02/23/2005

Minutes of 02/23/2005 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES
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xxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Charles Dawson
xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx Francoise Martinolle
-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Doug Warmke
xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- Ralph Duncan
xxx-xxxx-x-xxxxxxxxx-x-- Sachchidananda Patel
xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-- Michael Rohleder
xx-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x- Jim Garnett
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--x- Steven Dovich
xxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx Jim Vellenga
--xxxx---xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx Andrzej Litwiniuk
---xx--x-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx Bassam Tabbara
--x--x-xx-xxx----------- Stu Sutherland
-------x-xx--xxxxx-xxx-- John Stickley
---xxxxx---x-xxxx-x-xxxx Ghassan Khoory
----x--xxxx--xxxxxxxxxxx Joao Geada
---------x-x-xxxxxx--x-- Rob Slater
-----------------------x Swapnajit Mitra
-----------------------x Karen Pieper
---------------------x-- Angshuman Saha
-----------------x------ Kevin Cameron
---------------x-------- Amit Kohli
--------------x--------- Surrendra Dudani

1.  Reviewed Patent information.

   - Charles Dawson reviewed the patent information.


2.  Reviewed minutes of the 02/09/2005 Meeting.

   - JimV/Ralph.  ACCEPTED.


3.  Liaisons

   - A DPI paper at DVCon was voted best paper.
   - Nothing else reported.


4.  New business

   - Have we completed our review of all Acknowledged items?
     - 4 Items in Acknowledged.
       - 160:  Ralph will close.
       - 052:  Sachi needed links to docs.  Chas sent.
       - 265:  Bassam's.  Chas will look at it.
       - 267:  Francoise will close out.
   - Review schedule for balloting feedback.
     - Lively debate on what we can and cannot do during this time.  The
       committee had a number of questions, and Chas took an action to
       ask the P1800 committee for clarification.
       - JimV took an action to look for items which may have been resolved
         as part of editing process.
     - It was decided that we would meet again next week, but reconsider the
       usefulness of additional meetings prior to 04/06/2005 at that time.


5.  Reviewed of items with proposals.

   - None.


6.  Old Business

   - JimV to enter a new SV-CC item for adding tables for return values of
     the properties.
     DONE.  Added item 374.

   - Stu to file new SV-CC item that will address bigger issue he pointed
     out in Item 321.
     No one could remember the issue here.  Chas to bring up with Stu.

   - Francoise and Chas to investigate what to do for systemVerilog and generates
     Partially DONE.  Added item 369.

   PTF action items:
   - 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
     DONE.  Added item 376.

   - Francoise to file a PTF item that asks to specify the order that iteration
     occur in, when the order is important.
     DONE.  Added item 378.

   - Chas to file an Item on the usage of the term "tags" at the beginning of
     clause 27.
     DONE.  Added item 379.

Meeting ended at 12:55PM EST.


7.  Action items

   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.
   - Stu to file new SV-CC item that will address bigger issue he pointed
     out in Item 321.
   - Chas to ask P1800 committee to clarify what we can do during the balloting
     process.
   - JimV to look at all open items to see what ones could be closed due to
     actions of the editors.

   PTF action items:
   - Steve to compare BNF with the access available
     for attributes to see if they match
   - Stu to enter new PTF item for save/restart/reset issue.
   - Francoise to lookup wording for PTF 524 in VHPI.
   - Chas to reword proposal for PTF 525.
   - Steve to add ETF item for Annex C to remove the Informative label, but
     still allow the contents to be optional.


8.  Items for consideration at the next meeting (they already have proposals):

   - None.

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