Verilog-AMS committee meeting minutes - 17 Feb 2010

Date: 17 Feb 2010, 2pm US Pacific

Dave Cronauer, Synopsys
Brian Mulvaney, Freescale
Dave Miller, Freescale
Ken Bakalar, Mentor
Kevin Cameron, Consultant
Sri Chandra, Freescale
Jonathan David, Qualcomm
Haydar Bilhan, TI
Martin O'Leary, Cadence

* Discussion on Verilog-AMS presentation at the P1800 meeting
   - Kevin mentioned that direct integration of AMS within P1800 would
be the best approach (adding Verilog-AMS as a chapter to P1800)
   - Ken felt that P1800 went through a major integration just recently
(merging P1364 with P1800); even tho' the languages were fundamentally
the same, it took enormous effort to integrate; P1800 may not view
kindly to direct integration
   - All the options are being put forth to the P1800 committee for
discussion
   - Ken (Mentor) will be presenting the Verilog-AMS presentation at the
meeting on Feb 26th. Kevin, Martin, Jonathan also plan to attend this
meeting in person.

* Opening a donation window for 'wreal'
   - Martin from Cadence moved for opening a donation window for a wreal
proposal.
   - The proposal covers aspects raised on wreal through Mantis and
enhancements to wreal done by Cadence.
   - This proposal is provided as a donation; some of the aspects of
this proposal has been patented. As part of the donation, if the
donation is accepted the patents will be licensed to Accellera.
   - Kevin mentioned that the there is a proposal to deprecate wreal
which has been open for few years. His opinion is that this should be
handled as part of SV integration.
   - Jonathan from Qualcomm commented that Qualcomm might be interested
in putting a proposal for wreal as part of this donation window; he will
confirm this in a week's time.
   - The Cadence donation will be discussed in 2 weeks time; and then
subsequently voted for accept/reject. Accepting donation transfers the
document to Accellera - updates and modifications can be made under
Accellera (if accepted).

Regards,
Sri

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