P1076 August 6, 2015 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• Brent Hayhoe, Rob Gaddi, Jim Lewis, Lieven Lemiengre, Peter Flake, Ernst Christen

Agenda:

Meeting Discussion

• Reviewed Interface Requirements: InterfaceAcceptedRequirements
• DPI - Peter has updated, Please review DpiProposal
  • Peter would appreciate help with formatting in the document
• Next Meeting: Review Use Models

Reference Links

• Ernst's Proposals
  • Heterogeneous Interfaces
  • Heterogeneous Interface Requirements
  • Overview of SystemVerilog Interfaces
  • Bundles in VHDL
    • Brent Hayhoe: Comments
    • Daniel Kho: Comments
  • Status Quo and Moving Forward

• Brent Summaries:
  • Interface Mode Requirements
  • Interface Bundle Requirements

• Proposals:
  • Records with Directional Subtypes - Peter Flake
  • Add a "Bus" port mode for bidirectional port signals - Brian Drummond
  • Interface Construct and Port Mode Configurations - Brent Hayhoe
  • Interfaces: Packages as an Interface Construct - Jim Lewis
  • Protected Types with Public Signals - Jim Lewis
  • Protected Type: Shared Variables On Entity Interface - Jim Lewis
  • Record Introspection - Chris Higgs
  • Record Introspection & Indexing - Brent Hayhoe
  • Generics on Protected Types - Jim Lewis
  • Attributes for interfaces - John Aasen
  • IR2067 - Logical link interface abstraction - Martin Trautmann, analyzed: Peter Ashenden
  • IR2076 - a member attribute for records - Rickard Norberg
  • IR2089 - Directional Records - Andreas Doering, never analyzed
  • IEEE 200X FT-17 - Composite interface mode - Jim Lewis
  • IEEE 200X FT-14 & FT-15 - Arrays of unconstrained arrays and records with unconstrained arrays - Ryan Hinton

• Documents:
  • SUAVE Language Description - Peter Ashenden
  • Interfaces - Jim Lewis
  • Object Orientation Revisited - Peter Ashenden

• Email threads:
  • vhdl-200x: Requirements for VHDL Interfaces
  • vhdl-200x: Requirements for Interfaces
  • vhdl-200x: Re: Requirements for Interfaces, Part 1
  • vhdl-200x: Re: Requirements for Interfaces, Part 2
  • VHDL Interfaces (was RE: EXTERNAL: Re: vhdl-200x: VHDL enhancements wish list)
  • vhdl-200x: Directional records proposal
  • {Disarmed} Re: vhdl-200x: Directional records proposal
  • vhdl-200x: Records with diectional subtypes
  • vhdl-200x: Interfaces with normal, conjugated and monitor flavours

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• NA

Next Meeting: Thursday August 20, 2015, 11 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday July 23, 2015