VHDL Study Group Meeting  1/10/2011  8 am

Attendees:
  Hans Tiggeler       - Consultant
  David Bishop        - Kodak
  Chris Higgs
  Peter Flake
  Charles Gardiner    - Consultant 
  Martin Thompson     - TRW Automotive
  Brice Anton-Jensen  - Rockwell Collins
  Jim Lewis           - SynthWorks
  If I missed you, please send me an email
  

Discussion:
  Approve 12/16 Meeting Minutes:  Motion: David Bishop.  2nd: Charles G
  
  Discusion on PAR supplement:  
    http://www.eda.org/vasg/docs/par_supplement_2011_0106.pdf
    
  Discussed Proposed Working Group Organization:
    Motion to approve:  Charles.   2nd: Brice 
    SG approved that proposed WG organization be passed forward to WG

  
Amendments to list:
  Make interfacing to other languages easy 
    Direct C calls 
    VHDL to SystemC TLM package/API 
    VHDL to SystemVerilog API
    VHDL to Python, TCL, or other scripting languages
    
  Transaction-level modeling
    Simplify connections between models (interface object or other)

  Coordinating more with VHDL-AMS
    Interfaces to spice models such as DACs, ...
    Table driven modeling in AMS - generalization opportunities
    vector/matrix operations - generalization opportunities
    
  Designer Productivity Improvements
    Extract simulation data into test data 

  Motion to approve amended list:  Brice, Martin 2nd
  SG approved that passing the amended list of the par_supplement forward to WG
  
  Revised document posted at:  
    http://www.eda.org/vasg/docs/par_supplement_2011_0106.pdf

Action Items / Homework:  
  All:  Review IEEE WG P&Ps & suggest customizations (where allowed) for our WG 
    http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/audcom/wg_pp_0110.doc
  
  Jim:  Move webpage to Twiki
  Jim:  Get eda.org/vhdl.org to reference new twiki as the new project

  
Next Meeting
  Wednesday Jan 26 at 8 am Pacific
  
Next Meeting Agenda:
  Discuss WG P&Ps see Action Items/Homework above.

  Initiate discussion of language change requirements
    - it will expedite things if you come with a list
      for discussion