[sv-cc] SV-CC Meeting minutes for 03/29/2006

From: Charles Dawson <chas_at_.....>
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 19:46:44 PDT
Minutes of 03/29/2006 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES
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xxxxxxxxxx Charles Dawson
xxxxxx-xxx Ankur Kuchlous
xxxxxxxxxx Ralph Duncan
xxxxxxxxxx Jim Vellenga
xxxxxxxxxx Steven Dovich
-xxxxxx-xx Andrzej Litwiniuk
xxxxxxx-xx Abigail Moorhouse
xxxxx-xxxx Michael Rohleder
xxxxxx---- Ghassan Khoory
xx-------- Chuck Berking
xx-------- Bassam Tabbara
x--xxx---x Francoise Martinolle
--------x- Nasim Hussain
---------x Sachchidananda Patel
-x-------- Stu Sutherland

1.  Reviewed Patent information.

   - Chas reviewed the patent information.


2.  Reviewed minutes of the 03/15/2006 Meeting.

     Today's agenda should not have listed 1343 because we already
     had vote on it last week.  Francoise asked what happened to the
     action item about assertions.  Michael pointed out that Bassam
     already dealt with it.
   - Ralph/JimV  ACCEPTED (unanimous) with noted discussion


3.  Liaisons

   - Francoise reported that the SV-BC is working on a proposal for
     classes.  They are changing some of the syntax to mark a class
     as virtual and pure?  We don't have that property on a class at
     this point.

     Francoise thinks we should review passed items by other committees
     to see if they are going to effect the SV-CC.  We could look at
     all of the resolved ones to see if there are any that effect to
     SV-CC.  Francoise will take action to regularly review the list
     before our SV-CC meeting.

   - No one reported on other meetings


4.  New business

   - Item 0755 vpiValueRange target should be range rather than distribution

     Francoise has reviewed and thinks that it is okay.  We can now vote
     on it.

   - Item 1385 Please document compatibility issues between 1364 and 1800 VPI

     Chuck will be adding some of the known compatibility issues.  There are
     several issues around arrays.  Abi and Chuck have been discussing.
     Francoise said that we consciously decided to make a backwards compatibility
     issue because we had to do this to deal with all the new variable types.
     Abi thinks it will be difficult to migrate people with this problem.

     What is the definition of a backward compatibility issue?  Chuck will post
     issues and suggest a set of possible solutions to get the ball rolling.
     Steve pointed out that you cannot talk about different versions of the spec
     within the current spec itself.

   - Problems with fork, named fork, begin, named begin and with new fork join types.

     Francoise described a number of issues.

   - Item 1395 unsized, packed dimensions in DPI import declarations

     Ralph thinks that there are three issues here.  Presented the issues and
     there was a healthy discussion.  Francoise and Chuck expressed their
     opinions.

Motion to adjourn: JimV/Steve.
Meeting ended 1:08pm EST.

   - Others?

5.  Reviewed of items with proposals.

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.
   - Francoise  to regularly review the list of passed SV-BC items for required
     changes in VPI before our SV-CC meetings.

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

   - Item 0755 vpiValueRange target should be range rather than distribution
   - Item 1322 Some union forms problematic as DPI parameters
   - Item 1403 vpiAutomatic names both a property and a relation
   - Item 1395 Open arrays: unsized packed dimension legality, scenarios

10. Next meeting
   The next SV-CC meeting will be on 04/12/2006.  NOTE that Daylight savings
   time in in effect in the USA.
   The next P1800 meeting is on 04/03/2006.

--
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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