RE: [sv-cc] SV-CC agenda for 04/15/2005

 
I will be able to attend the first and last hour.

Note that there is no issue about var bit and net bit. I did not realize
that there
was a var bit inside the variables class.

Francoise
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-cc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-cc@eda.org] On Behalf Of Charles
Dawson
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:19 PM
To: SV-CC
Subject: [sv-cc] SV-CC agenda for 04/15/2005

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 10:00am EDT (2:00pm GMT), and last for 4.0 hours.

   -Chas


AGENDA

1.  Review Patent information

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

2.  Review minutes from last meeting (04/11/2005)

3.  Liaisons

    - Anyone care to make a report?

4.  New business

   - Item 644 (ballot comment #229)
   - Items 455 and 489 (ref objs and vpiParent)
   - Items 457, 477, and 490
   - Item 617 and the related SV-CC Item 668
   - var bit vs net bit (email from Francoise)?
   - Item 610 and the definition of vpiFullName

5.  Review SV-CC items with proposals:

   - Item 426 29.3.2.1 Return value of vpi_get_assertion_info() is backwards
   - Item 433 30 - incorrect title
   - Item 434 30.1.3 Last sentence is not clear
   - Item 586 31.8.7 sentence need clarification
   - Item 585 31.8.6 font issue
   - Item 455 32.12.1 poorly written paragraphs
   - Item 489 32.38 Need better definition of a ref obj object.
   - Item 447 32.5 missing types for properties
   - Item 526 VPI references to dynamic objects prevent garbage collection
   - Item 372 PTF 312: Need two new time related callbacks
   - Item 417 PTF 311 Problem with loads in VPI
   - Item 605 32.2 & 32.3 & 32.6 vpiDefaultClocking is not in include file
   - Item 463 32.16 should not perpetuate unused functionality
   - Item 345 VPI changes to support Encryption
   - Item 533 32.22 vpiAccessType should be vpiVisibility
   - Item 534 32.26 vpiInterfaceTask and vpiInterfaceFunction properties
   - Item 352 What all should vpiImport return?
   - Item 528 32.21 missing iteration on type declarations
   - Item 465 32.19 Please clarify vpiWaitingProcesses iteration
   - Item 589 31.10 cannot set the user_data field
   - Item 482 32.27 Don't need vpiBuiltIn property
   - Item 606 32.30 Problems with data model for clocking blocks
   - Item 604 Annex E: routines are not always declared in instantiable
scopes
   - Item 425 29.3.2.1 violates a principle design feature of VPI

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.
   - 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
   - Chas to redo proposal for Item 372.
   - Chas to redo proposal for Item 417.
   - Chas/Francoise to review/change proposal for Item 455.
   - Chas to redo proposal for Item 463.
   - Chas to ask the P1800 committee for some period of time after the other
     committees have completed their work so that the SV-CC can react to
their
     changes.
   - Francoise to clarify definition of frames for Item 465.
   - JimV to redo proposal for Item 533.
   - Chas to lookup definition of vpiFullName in 1364 for Item 610.
   - Sachi to rework proposal for Item 482.
   - Chas to update proposal for Item 425.
   - Bassam to work on new proposal for Item 431.

   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.

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