Verilog-AMS Work Moving Forward

Hello all,

Next call is scheduled for next week - Thursday 18th Nov. Call in details below.

We have now finished the initial review of the merged SV-AMS grammar - I will
post that to the website later tonight.

Where too from here?

We have two main focuses.

First is the SVA work. The intention is that we will merge the assertions work
into the existing Verilog-AMS LRM and release a version 2.4 most likely 2nd
half next year.

The SVA workgroup will supply the necessary changes that they would like to
include into the AMS LRM. This will not be a full integration of the SVA
feature set into AMS. Just the required subset needed in the language as it
stands today.

The question we need to address is, for this version, do we fix some of the
minor requests (VAMS_Cleanup items in Mantis) in this 2.4 version as well or
should be hold off on doing that and only address what is needed for the
assertions merge. There are currently ~14 items that have been categorized as
VAMS_Cleanup.

The second and main focus is the SV merge itself. The first decision is the
layout of the document itself. The SV document is divided up into 4 main sections:
Part One: Design and Verification Constructs
Part Two: Hierarchy Constructs
Part Three: Application Programming Interface
Part Four: Annexes

Do we want to replicate this layout to be consistent with the P1800-20XX document?

If we do this, will it be ok to have chapters where we have nothing to add. For
example, "28. Gate-level and switch-level modeling" might simply contain a
"Refer to P1800-20XX ..." sentence, since we would have nothing to add to this.

I will post a layout (ToC) of the SV document later tonight for those that
don't have access to the P1800-2009.

Next is the actual section changes. Now is the time for some volunteers to take
ownership of one or more chapters. Not necessarily to do the actual changes at
this stage, just a first pass to identify the required changes for each chapter.
With the year coming to a close, it would be nice to assign some sections now,
so that people have a couple months to go through it and report back early next
year.
So if there is a particular part of the document you would like to work on, let
me know, and we can start coordinating our efforts.

We will meet next week Thursday 18th Nov to discuss this all in more detail. I
will send a reminder next Tuesday.

Call times have now changed to:
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Cheers...
Dave

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