Minutes of Verilog-AMS LRM Call - 25 April 2006

Attendees:

Jim Barby, U Waterloo
Marq Kohl, Philips
Martin O'Leary, Cadence
Graham Helwig, ASTC
Geoffrey Coram, Analog
Patrick O'Halloran, Tiburon


1) Action item review:
Shalom sent some responses to the reflector on questions that
came up last time, which cleared up the macros in numbers
question from 2.5.1.
Sri was not there to report on whether Shalom's e-mail on
SV strings conflicts with the string parameters in AMS LRM 2.2;
Martin agreed to take over this action item.
Jonathan did not add a mantis item for unit prefixes (yzYZ);
Martin took this action item also.
No progress was reported on the character set (ASCII?) for 1364.

2) merged_lex review, continued:

2.6.3: suggest adding sentence to say that simulator shall issue
a warning for unknown escape sequence (eg \q -- anything not in the
table)

table says "less than 3 characters" but it should be "fewer";
that's a problem in 1364.

2.7 2nd paragraph: qualify it as *simple* identifier

In a few places (2.7.1, 2.7.2), "non-escaped identifier" should 
read "simple identifier" per the original definition in 2.7

Question as to whether "." in a escaped identifier needs any
special mention.  Resolution: no.

2.7.3 talks about $ for "user-defined functions", which is

Syntax 2-3 has references to Annex A, but Syntax 2-2 does not;
Graham will add references to Annex A in all syntax boxes.

Marq noted that 2.7.4 gives the ASCII value for ` but no values
for specific characters are given elsewhere (eg, not for \)

2.8 need to remove clause about not standardizing on any
particular attributes, since 2.8.1 does.

2.8.1 Graham will make desc and units bullet items, so that
it is easier to add others in the future.

2.8.3 Syntax presented for attributing declarations but not
expressions; this is how 1364 is done -- some examples in
2.8.2 have attributed expressions, and it appears that the
attributes follow the expression:
    a = b + (* mode = "cla" *) c;


-Geoffrey