P1076 May 24, 2012 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• JimLewis * RyanHinton * MartinThompson * HansTiggeler * JarekKaczynski

Agenda:

• Approve April 19 Meeting Minutes. Motion: Hans 2nd: Ryan
• Approve May 10 Meeting Minutes. Motion: Martin 2nd: Hans
• 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

Where to host packages?

• Allows team review and approve for merging
  • Launch Pad - allows team review
  • Git hub - may only allow one person to do it.
  • mercurial - ?
  • bit bucket
• Cost
  • Some free for open source

Review of Items from old proposals

• Slicing Multidimensional arrays - FT15 - Ryan
• If Expression - FT10A -
  • worth unarchiving? Syntax was bad - replace "," with else
  • alternative have a function - no language change required.
    • Could offer great flexability wrt 'X' on input

Review of Items from TBV Proposals

• TBV1 - in 2008
• TBV2 - associative arrays - Martin
  • Static key type. Static return type.
  • [extension]key types where potentially each entry may use a different type for the key
  • functions?
• TBV3 - Fork and Join - Need use models and volunteer - Peter Flake?
  • Ryan - use case forking for checkers - potentially use scoreboard instead
• TBV4 - FIFO - Jim
  • Unsized
  • Sized - would need handshaking to indicate push not successful
• TBV5 - Improved Textio - in 2008
• TBV6 - unclear - need use model
  • assign image value for identifier-based enumeration literals - alternate to default
  • Did they want to assign position value s.t. can create the state vector value
    • perhaps use different attribute than 'pos to get at the value
• TBV7 - Standardized synchronization and handshaking methods - Jim
  • sync methods for concurrent processes.
• TBV8 - Request action / wait for action - subset of tbv7

Action Items:

• Interfaces - Jim
• Where to host packages?

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday June 14, 8 am Pacific

Thursday June 28, 8 am Pacific