P1076 March 20, 2014 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• JimLewis * CliffordWalinsky * JasonBorland * StevenDovich * PeterFlake

Agenda:

Action Item Review

• Open: 207: Stop in environment package. Return values ambigous as to what can be done with them.
  • Reserve a range for the LRM uses?
  • Place requirement on implementation to make the return value available some how.
• Done Steven Dovich: 218: Added new proposal for this.
• Jim 230 - Add place holder proposal so we don't drop it. Need FPGA/ASIC specific instances of float_pkg - send email to reflector
• [Done] Cliff: 44 - Implicit operators and aliases- covered by ISAC issue? (see LRM SC 13-Jun-2006).
  • Cliff and John Ries reviewed and section 12.3 has been revised for Bugzilla 178 and agree that it also closes bugzilla 44.
  • Overloading rules for enums matches functions with no arguments.
• David Bishop: Bugzilla 17 - add_carry in numeric_std as well as fixed/floating packages
  • Is it already in the fixed and floating point packages?
• David Bishop: Bugzilla 15 - Should numeric_bit/std have resize with size_res parameter?
  • David proposed it for consistency with the fixed and floating point packages
• Ryan: Arbitrary width float: see Nov 8 2012 meeting
• Open: natural_vector see Nov 8 2012 meeting
  • Can we make it closely related to integer_vector?
  • Could this also handle items like X01_vector -
• Jim - 257 -definitions for TEXT, OUTPUT, and INPUT from std.textio to std.standard
• Jim - 258 - syntax regularization between entity and component
• 262 - Fixed Generic Pkg and checking valid range
• Peter - 293 - copy proposed resolution in bugzilla in proposal
• Jim - Mark bugzillas for which we have a proposal with that status
• All: Review Action Item List
• All: Review ISAC Accepted Items Review
• All: Rank Proposals
• All: Review Proposals
• Jim - Add separate table for collected requirements that do not have an owner

Review Action Item List

• Open - Scope of keywords - see 2012_MeetingAugust2
  • Will increase compiler complexity significantly - may be a bad idea
  • Recommend that we drop it.
• Open - Multi dimensional Array restructuring: Array <--> Matrix Transformations 2012_MeetingJuly19 MeetingDecember15
• Ryan - Slicing Multidimensional Arrays (FT15) maybe related to above 2012_MeetingMay24
• Jim - Generics on Usage of Subprograms 2012_MeetingJuly19
• Peter - Fork and Join 2012_MeetingJune21
• Jim - Table driven modeling via protected types 2012_MeetingMay10
• Jim - Updates to non-standard package std_logic_arith MeetingFebruary16
  • Note there are some behavioral differences between the packages wrt error reporting, ...
  • Cliff to look into reports about differences between numeric_std and std_logic_arith
  • Primary goal: make it easy to connect old designs to new designs.
• Open - clocked short hand MeetingJanuary5
• Open - Synthesizable Assertions MeetingAugust25 MeetingAugust11
• Open - revive 1076.6 to handle syntheis proposals MeetingAugust25 MeetingAugust11
  • Jim - promote things from the MeetingAugust11 list to the Collected requirements page
• Open - PSL harmonization - need to recruit someone
• Open - create open source boost/C++ like libraries
• Open - RTL Macros

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• Motion: Cliff 2nd: Steven

Next Meeting: Thursday April 3, 2014 8 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday February, 27, 2014