[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting minutes for 02/15/2006

From: Charles Dawson <chas_at_.....>
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 13:30:21 PST
Minutes of 02/15/2006 SV-CC Meeting.

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

1.  Reviewed Patent information.

   - Charles Dawson reviewed the patent information.


2.  Reviewed minutes of the 02/01/2006 Meeting.

   - Ralph/JimV.  ACCEPTED (unanimous)


3.  Liaisons

   - No other committee activity was discussed.


4.  New business

   - Review of response to P1800 on merging the two Specifications.

     Francoise asked if we should include some of our reasoning.  Chas
     noted that it did not include how we voted.  Jim and Francoise
     discussed the timeline.  It won't take us 2 years to do this, but
     we need that much wall time to get everything we want done.  How
     about including some of the comments from the minutes?

     Abby moves that we reference the minutes in our response. Ghassan
     seconds.  APPROVED (unanimous)

   - vpiEndColumn and vpiColumn issue brought up by Francoise

     Chas recalls us discussing this during balloting, and that Bassam
     thought it was important that they remain.  Michael thinks these
     are to help figure out what caused the state change.  Abby doesn't
     think that it matches the other way things are done.  This needs
     to be looked at more carefully.  At the very least, these need
     to be added to the include file. Michael will provide Francoise
     an example.  Francoise will file a Mantis item and work with
     Michael on a solution.

   - Unpacked array argument index correspondence brought up by Doug

     Ralph things that Doug will be writing up a proposal on this, and
     that he would like another 2 weeks to investigate this issue further.
     JimV asked Andrzej to send out his reasoning for why it should be
     the opposite way.

   - 1327 and 1328
     Abby pointed out that there are proposals for these.  Chas will add
     them to our agenda for next time.


5.  Reviewed of items with proposals.

   - Item 1307 An open array is not like a multidimensional dynamic array
     JimV/Ralph.  PASSED (unanimous)

   - Item 1269 Open array output mode semantics

     Long discussion on allowing dynamic arrays.  Friendly amendment to remove
     the statement "This actual shall not be a dynamic array (see 5.8).".  Ralph,
     JimV, Andrzej, and Doug will work on the dynamic array issue further.
     Ralph/Francoise.  PASSED as amended (unanimous).  Ralph to update.

   - Item 0754 vpiConstraintItem relation missing from header file

     Abby thinks on is a duplicate of 1328.  Solution is same except for the
     number.  Abby/JimV.  PASSED (unanimous)

Meeting ended at 1:04pm EST.

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

7.  Old Business

8.  Action items

   - JimV to look into other things which can have size changes as discussed in 0985.
   - Steve to help Nasim file a clarification request.
   - Andrzej to file a mantis item that there is no vpiChandleVar object.
   - Chas to send Abigail the frame docs for the diagrams.

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

   - Item 0804 27.55 Generates has bad assertion and typespec enclosures
   - Item 0791 27.43 There is no 'vpiAssignmentOp' in the include file
   - Item 0790 27.40 continue and break should be bold
   - Item 0755 vpiValueRange target should be range rather than distribution
   - Item 1327 vpiGeneric and vpiInterfaceDecl referred to in text but not defined
   - Item 1328 Constraint Item (vpiConstraintItem) usage unclear

10. Next meeting
   The next SV-CC meeting will be on 03/01/2006 at the regular time.
   The next P1800 meeting is on 02/21/2006.

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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
Received on Wed Feb 15 13:30:32 2006

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