[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting minutes for 04/05/2005

Minutes of 04/05/2005 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES
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xxxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Charles Dawson
-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx Francoise Martinolle
x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Doug Warmke
-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- Ralph Duncan
xxxx-xxxx-x-xxxxxxxxx-x-- Sachchidananda Patel
xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-- Michael Rohleder
xxx-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x- Jim Garnett
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--x- Steven Dovich
xxxxxxxx--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
x------------------------ Rohit Rana

1.  Reviewed Patent information.

   - Charles Dawson reviewed the patent information.


2.  Reviewed minutes of the 02/23/2005 Meeting.

   - Steve/Sachi.  ACCEPTED.


3.  Liaisons

   - Nothing else reported.


4.  New business

   - Trivial issues
     - No one has looked at them.
     - Decided to postpone the vote until next meeting.

   - Assign major ballot comment mantis items
     - Assigned most of them.  Remainder will be addressed later.

   - Chas passed on information from Karen that until we hear
     otherwise from the P1800 committee, we need to work as if
     the deadline of 4/18 will not be changed.

   - Chas asked that email be sent to him on any items which
     have had proposals added, so that he can update the next
     meeting agenda.


Meeting ended at 1:50pm EDT.

5.  Reviewed of items with proposals.


6.  Old Business


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.
   - JimV to enter a new SV-CC item for adding tables for return values of
     the properties.
   - Stu to file new SV-CC item that will address bigger issue he pointed
     out in Item 321.
   - Francoise and Chas to investigate what to do for systemVerilog and generates

   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.
   - 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.
   - 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 optional.
   - Chas to file an Item on the usage of the term "tags" at the beginning of
     clause 27.

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

   - Item 372 PTF 312: Need two new time related callbacks
   - Item 382 vpiMember rather than vpiMembers in object model for nets
   - Item 425 29.3.2.1 violates a principle design feature of VPI
   - Item 452 32.8 backwards compatibility broken here
   - Item 433 30 - incorrect title

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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