[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting minutes for 05/18/2005

From: Charles Dawson <chas_at_.....>
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 11:05:27 PDT
Minutes of 05/18/2005 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Charles Dawson
xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx Francoise Martinolle
xxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Doug Warmke
xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- Ralph Duncan
-----xxxxxxxx-xxxx-x-xxxxxxxxx-x-- Sachchidananda Patel
xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-- Michael Rohleder
xxxxx-xxxxxx-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x- Jim Garnett
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--x- Steven Dovich
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx Jim Vellenga
xxxxxxxxxx------------------------ Rohit Rana
-xx--x-xx----xx--x-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx Bassam Tabbara
-x----xxx---x--x-xx-xxx----------- Stu Sutherland
-----x------xxxx---xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx Andrzej Litwiniuk
-x-xx--xx------------------------- Tapati Basu
-------x-------------------------- Ashish Naik
-----------------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 05/10/2005 Meeting.

   - Ralph/Steve.  ACCEPTED (unanimous)

3.  Liaisons

   - Chas has sent to the Champions our XL spreadsheet with our ballot
     response.  Committee asked to see.  Chas forwarded.


4.  New business

   - Item 526
     JimV will put in a file with the entire proposal.

   - Item 480
     Steve moves that we respond with:
       The proposed changes have merit but the scope is too large to establish
       consensus during the balloting period.  We are referring this
       to be addressed in the next version of the standard.
     JimV seconds.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Frame incompatibility between 1364 and 1800.
     At the Champions meeting, Stu commented that we should have fixed Frames
     in 1364 to be compatible with 1800.  The issue is in Item 485.  Francoise
     thinks we could fix 1800 so that there would be no backwards incompatibility.
     Straw poll: Should we try to fix the incompatibility?  YES (unanimous)
     Straw poll: Should we fix 1364 or 1800?  1800 only (unanimous)

     To do this we need to do the following:
       Change solid enclosure labeled frame on LHS into dotted unnamed enclosure
       with scope, task call, func call, and frame in it.
       Add vpiValid to the unnamed dotted enclosure on RHS.
      Doug/Steve.  PASSED (unanimous)  Chas to update proposal.

     Doug Moves that we change the proposal in 485 to remove note 7 which describes
     the (now nonexistent) incompatibility.
     Steve Seconds.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 734.
     JimV wanted to make sure the change in 712 is okay.
     Steve moves that we report to the Champions that we are okay with the
     changes in this area with the exception of the following typos:

       In the paragraph about the Postponed region, the "Observe" region
       should actually be the "Observed" region.

       In the NOTE attached to the paragraph about the Post-observed
       region, the spelling of "schcedule" should be corrected.

       In the paragraph after that, "Pre-Postponed" should be
       written as "Pre-postponed" instead for consistency with
       other regions that have prefixed names.  I.e., don't
       capitalize the first "P" in the suffixed "postponed"?

       In the proposal for 712 Table 15-3 has been updated
       so that cbEndOfSimTime now points to the "Pre-Postponed"
       region, which should be "Pre-postponed".

     JimV seconds.  ACCEPTED.
     Francoise remarked that we will need to check over this section carefully
     when the next draft comes out because of the many different changes in it.

   - Item 735
     Should we include this change in the vpi_user.h and sv_vpi_user.h files?
     Friendly amendment to include similar change in vpi_user.h.
     Doug/Steve.  PASSED (unanimous)  Doug to update proposal.


5.  Reviewed of items with proposals.



Meeting ended at 1:12pm EDT.


6.  Old Business (chas did most of this on his own, after the meeting, please
     review)

   SV-CC action items:
   - JimV to enter a new SV-CC item for adding tables for return values of
     the properties.
     Done.  Chas added Item 374.

   - Francoise and Chas to investigate what to do for systemVerilog and generates
     Done

   - Chas/Francoise to review/change proposal for Item 455.
     Done.

   - Chas to redo proposal for Item 463.
     Post-poned until next version of spec.

   - Francoise to clarify definition of frames for Item 465.
     Done.

   - Chas to lookup definition of vpiFullName in 1364 for Item 610.
     Chas looked but could not find anything specific.

   - Sachi to rework proposal for Item 482.
     Done.

   - Chas to review assignments and redo where necessary.
     Done.

   - Tapati to rework Item 606.
     Done.

   - Chas to update proposal for Item 425.
     Done.

   - Ralph to work with JimV to fix other issues found in Item 487.
     Done.

   - Francoise to rework Item 489.
     Done.

   - Francoise and JimV to rework Item 465.
     Done.

   - Tapati to provide HTML or PDF for Item 496.
     Done.

   - Chas to update Karen and Champions on decisions made by SV-CC for the
     following Mantis Items:  732 729 712 708 711 709
     Done.

   - Chas/Stu to send out proposal for Item 710.
     Done.

   - Steve to update Encryption committee on our change to 345.
     Steve reported that the Encryption committee was okay with our change.
     Done.

   - Chas to update proposal for 369.
     Done.

   - Tapati to update proposal for 606.
     Done.

   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 (by Chas).

   - Francoise to file a PTF item that asks to specify the order that iteration
     occur in, when the order is important.
     Chas filed Item 378.
     Done.

   - Chas to file an Item on the usage of the term "tags" at the beginning of
     clause 27.
     This problem has been corrected.
     Done.


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 update proposal for 445.

   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):




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