P1076 January 7, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• Lieven Lemiengre, Peter Flake, Rob Gaddi, Ryan Hinton, Jim Lewis

Agenda:

Meeting Discussion

• Review Interface Proposals
• What's Next - see http://www.eda.org/twiki/bin/view.cgi/P1076/PrivateDocuments file: _summary_vhdl_requirements_priority-1.xlsx
  • Improved Integer Support
    • See: Google Doc by Lieven
    • Ryan: Bit-wise operators is secondary, want integer that can be bigger when want
    • Modular types: Record with value and range - how make range static?
      • If not static slow, if not power of 2 slower
    • ADA is more like a subtype constraint
    • Should it be a power of 2 or non-power of 2 range (addresing 3 memories with power of 2 addresses)
    • Need something that interoperates seemlessly with integer
    • Need requirements list, use models, and trade-offs (ranged, modular, cross-assignments)
  • Resume on line 15 next meeting

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• NA

Next Meeting: Thursday January 21, 2016 11 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday December 17, 2015