P1076 July 28, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• DavidKoontz * MartinThompson * PeterFlake * ChrisHiggs * JarekKaczynski * DavidBishop * JimLewis

Agenda:

• Approve July 14 Minutes
  • Motion DavidKoontz * 2nd: * JarekKaczynski * ChrisHiggs * MartinThompson
• Discuss officer requirements
• Review collected requirements list
• Continue discussion of language change requirements.

Officer Requirements in P&P

• Peter Flake: Minimum requirements best
  • Chris agrees as it makes participation more inclusive
• Make Chair IEEE, IEEE-SA, and DASC membership required
• Remove IEEE and IEEE-SA requirements from Vice-Chair, Sec, Tres
• AI: Jim to update the P&P and circulate for a vote

Proposal Formats

• Proposal Information
• Add Trade-offs headings and items to be decided
• Likely that each proposal will have slightly different formats

Functional Coverage & Randomization

• Briefly reviewed the proposal
• AI: David Koontz - provide example(s) of verification problem that cannot be handled without a solver - ie: by procedural randomization - in which all items are randomized in a specific order.

Raw Requirements - A Search for Owners

• Creation of RTL Macros - Martin
• Matrix Math Packages - David Bishop
• Package Body Selection - David Bishop & Jim
• Unicode extended identifier and comments - ADA does this - Defer
  • AI: Martin and David Koontz - Post to linked in groups and comp.lang.vhdl
• Simulation Controls - David Koontz

Action Items:

• AI: Martin and David Koontz - Ask about need for Unicode extended identifiers and comments in linked in groups and comp.lang.vhdl - get volunteers who would be willing to work on proposals toward this.
• AI: Jim - revise P&P and recirculate
• AI: David Koontz - provide example(s) of verification problem that cannot be handled without a solver - ie: by procedural randomization - in which items are randomized in a specific order.

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday August 11, 8 am Pacific