P1076 August 2, 2012 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• JimLewis * PeterFlake * MartinThompson * RyanHinton

Agenda:

• Login to get the Dial-in Information
• Approve July 19 Meeting Minutes. Motion: Peter 2nd: Martin
• Call for proposals for new items
• Call for volunteers to work on proposals
• Looking for team leader for ISAC
• Review updated proposals
  • RSS of recent changes
• Review requirements lists from VHDL-200X/Accellera effort
  • Assign owners to raw items and work toward proposals
• Review items in the collected requirements list
• Review ISAC issues and Bugzilla

Record IO Discussion

• Situation: Different companies both working on common interface
  • Can we allow type matching across packages s.t. if one package defines a Bus1 record type and another also defines a Bus1 record type then they are the same if they conform to some degree. Would reqiure that the record field names are the same?
  • Would have an interesting impact on mixing numeric_std and std_logic_arith
  • Is this necessary? Interfaces between organizations should be tightly controlled and packages with record declarations can be shared through git.
  • port <name> of record <recordtype> is (
  • Peter Flake plans on taking a spin on the proposal

Scope of Keywords

• As we add language keywords to the language it becomes likely that we will collide with a name already used in a design.
• For example, the natural keyword to use for record IO mode declarations is "mode"
• Should we consider giving all names including keywords scope and include keywords in the outer most region such that if someone uses a new keyword as a name in their design, the local definition of the name has scope over the keyword.
• Time for the compiler folks to chime on this

ISAC IRs

• Need to finish reviewing the list and catagorizing whether complete or not. Ryan

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday August 16, 8 am Pacific -- may need a meeting leader