Minutes LRM Committee Meeting - 21 June 2007

From: Marq Kole <marq.kole_at_.....>
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 07:43:32 PDT

All,

Here are the minutes from the LRM Committee Meeting  of 21 June 2007.

attendants:

Martin O'Leary - Cadence
Boris Troyanovsky - Tiburon
Patrick O'Halloran - Tiburon
Graham Helwig - STSC
Marq Kole - NXP Semiconductors

There was no update of the table model text in the LRM, so that could not be reviewed.

On the donation of Verilog-AMS examples from Synopsys the status of these examples is yet unclear. A this moment they can be retrieved from the Synopsys website, for details see the email message at http://www.eda-stds.org/verilog-ams/hm/1984.html. To verify that the models are a good addition to the models already at the Verilog-AMS website, we need to be able to review them, but at this moment not all of the committee members are able to legally get these models. We will ask Sri to contact Synopsys on this issue.

Marq is still working on providing test benches with the updated examples from the Verilog-AMS website. The models.tar.gz archive on the public documents part of the website has in the meantime been improved. We want minimal test benches, but they have to show correct model behavior; support for Spectre and Hspice syntax seems to be sufficient for the moment. However, as there are more than 70 examples, this will take some time.

Patrick asked to have a draft of the complete LRM 2.3 available so that implementers can get started. This seems appropriate as soon as all LRM chapters that add or change functionality have been updated. At this moment that is the table model section and the Chapter 11 on compiler directives. The annexes are not as important, whith the possible exception of Annex A. It seems reasonable that as these are updated that a first draft of the 2.3 LRM is created. Patrick recalled that Geoffrey used to do that with LRM 2.2 - can someone do that for the upcoming LRM as well?

On Annex A: Graham has not updated the BNF for a while. For chapters 7 and 10 there are documents available on the Verilog-AMS public documents site that detail the impact of changes to these chapter to other parts of the LRM including the syntax. No specific date was fixed for a new update of the BNF.

Action Points:
- Sri to contact Synopsys on review of the examples.
- Marq to develop test benches for the examples from the Verilog-AMS website.
- Patrick to update the table model section in Chapter 10 of the LRM 2.3 draft.
- Graham to update the BNF in Annex A.
- Marq to update Annex E for review.

Next LRM committee telephone conference on Thursday, June 28, 06:30 AM Pacific.
- review of update of section 10.20 (table models).
- review of update of Annex E (SPICE compatibility).

Cheers,

Marq

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