AMS Committee Meeting Minutes - 28 March 2006

Date: 28th March 2006

Attendees:
Geoffrey Coram
Martin O'leary
Patrick O'Halloran
Jim Barby
Arpad Muranyi
Prasanna Tamhankar
Jonathan David
Graham Helwig
Marq Kole
Sri Chandra


* Approval of "minor" mantis items posted by Geoffrey
   - Most of the items required minor corrections, typos in the current 
existing LRM
   - All the following items/proposals were approved at the meeting
     (838, 843, 848, 852, 854, 856, 867, 920, 023, 1390)
   - 1389: noise_table extrapolation is yet to be decided. The LRM is 
unclear how the values outside the array bounds should be treated. Most 
committee members found it acceptable to clamp the values to the lowest 
or upper most values when going outside array bounds. Martin wanted to 
check with Cadence team before agreeing to that issue.
   - It was suggested that the summary contain the section/Annex number 
to make it easier while doing the updates to see other relevant issues 
in that section. This action item on Sri was duly completed by Geoffrey 
for the urgent priority ones. :) (thanks Geoffrey)

* Timelines for individual updates
   - There was a request for Graham to post the frame version of the 
BNF/Syntax to all the authors, so that updates could be done more easily 
on the individual sections
   - BNF for the compiler directives would be excluded out of the syntax 
(Annex A) and explained as part of the compiler directives section in 
the LRM. Same with the detailed syntax for system tasks and functions
   - Chapter 1 (unassigned, not much change)
   - Chapter 2: Lexical Conventions (Graham will post this document 
after cleanup in 2 weeks, he is having difficulty in getting access to 
frame version). An initial version is available.
   - Chapter 3: Datatypes (Geoffrey, 2 weeks after the completion of 
Chapter 5)
   - Chapter 4: Expression (This is currently assigned to Prasanna. He 
doesnt have access to frame and might have to be reassigned)
   - Chapter 5: Signals (Geoffrey, Initial work has been done, this 
should be available for review mid-April)
   - Chapter 6: Analog Behavior (Sri, this will be posted 2 weeks after 
the review of chapter 9)
   - Chapter 7: Hierarchical Structures (Arpad, Marq: Could be done in 2 
to 4 weeks. Mid May)
   - Chapter 8: Mixed Signal (Not expecting too many changes as LRM2.3 
doesnt impact mixed signal resolution - Currently assigned to Prasanna 
and might have to be reassigned)
   - Chapter 9: Scheduling Semantics (Sri, plan to have it ready by 
mid-April. Not much changes as LRM2.3 hasnt impacted this chapter much)
   - Chapter 10: System Tasks and Functions (Martin, Plan to have it for 
submission around mid June. This chapter would require some rework and 
updates to expand the BNF syntax for individual sections and also 
analyze the usage of tasks and functions in mixed context)
   - Chapter 11 - Compiler Directives (Graham, Initial version of the 
document is being worked on - expected to be submitted by Mid May)
   - Chapter 12/13 - VPI: Currently unassigned. Will need to be reviewed 
after individual section updates are done
   - Annex A: Syntax (Graham, document ready in pdf format, request for 
frame version to be sent across)
   - Annex E: Spice extensions (Marq, only minor updates required in 
this section. Example testcases/verilog-A versions of Spice primitives 
will not be part of this LRM and will be a seperate document)

   - Jim requested that Annex G (changes from previous version of LRM) 
be reinstated. This was dropped in one of the earlier versions. There is 
a changebar version for LRM2.2 so this document will be updated from the 
previous version.

   - It looks like the individual sections will be updated and reviewed 
by late June / early July. The committee agreed that it will be very 
difficult to release this by June/July timeframe as initially agreed 
upon by the technical committee and Accellera. Need to update this 
status to the Accellera chair as there is a delay of about 2-3 months 
atleast for the release of LRM2.3 version.

* Call time for calls going forward
   - Calls will be scheduled for 1:30pm Pacific Daylight Savings time on 
tuesday as agreed upon by all the members.

Regards,
Sri
-- 
Srikanth Chandrasekaran
DTO, Tools Group
Freescale Semiconductors Inc.
Ph: +61-(0)8-8168 3592 Fax: x3201