[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting minutes for 12/07/2005

Minutes of 12/07/2005 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES
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xxxx Charles Dawson
-xxx Ankur Kuchlous
xxxx Ralph Duncan
xxxx Jim Vellenga
---x Sachchidananda Patel
x-xx Andrzej Litwiniuk
x-xx Abigail Moorhouse
xxxx Michael Rohleder
---x Francoise Martinolle
xxxx Steven Dovich
--x- Nasim Hussain

1.  Reviewed Patent information.

   - Charles Dawson reviewed the patent information.


2.  Reviewed minutes of the 11/30/2005 Meeting.

   - Steve/JimV  ACCEPTED (unanimous)


3.  Liaisons

   - No other meetings reported.


4.  New business

   - Standards are available for purchase.  The official version shall be the
     version that we work from going forward.


5.  Reviewed of items with proposals.

   - Item 0883 Wrong field names in s_vpi_vecval struct in svdpi.h file
     Steve/Ralph.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 0872 Typo with "Partsel" in F.9.3
     JimV/Michael.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 0758 Examples in DPI clause should use "DPI-C" rather than "DPI"
     Abby/Steve.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 0985 cbSizeChange for queues too?
     Discussed.  Are there other things such as strings and classes that are also
     left out?  JimV to look into it some more.

   - Item 0045 VPI access to elements of complex literals
     JimV moves to resolve as not a bug.  Steve Seconds.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 1018 vpiSigned was not defined for typespecs
     JimV thinks this is a duplicate.  JimV to figure out which one.


Meeting ended at 1:05pm EDT.


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

   - Item 0973 Undefined open array query function in Annex G
     Michael/Abby.  PASSED (unanimous)

7.  Old Business

   - Chas to ask P1800 committee for access to the base document.
     Done.

   - JimV to discuss Item 1018 with Francoise.
     The duplicates for this should be Items 1088 and 0733.

8.  Action items

   - JimV to look into other things which can have size changes as discussed in 0985.
   - Chas to investigate what is wrong with Francoise' password.
   - Steve to help Nasim file an clarification request.
   - Andrzej to file a mantis item that there is no vpiChandleVar object.
   - Chas to send Abigail the frame docs for the diagrams.
   - Doug to reword the solution for Item 0736 to remove the term "user".

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

   0736 More clarifications on DPI string arguments and pass by reference
   0924 Ancient nomenclature discovered in svdpi.h: "extern functions"



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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