P1076 June 30, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• RyanHinton * JoanWoolery * DavidBishop * DavidKoontz * JohnShields * HansTiggeler * ChuckSwart * JarekKaczynski * MartinThompson* PeterFlake

Agenda:

• Approve May 26 meeting minutes: Motion: JarekKaczynski 2nd: HansTiggeler
• Review VASG Working Group Operating Procedures
  • Vote after meeting.
• Officer elections soon. We need chair, vice-chair, and secretary.
  • All of these are non-technical administrator type roles
• Reminder: Please list your self in the working group roster:
  • http://www.eda.org/twiki/bin/view.cgi/P1076/VhdlRoster
  • Only those who on the roster are candidates to be voters in the working group.
  • If you don't yet have a twiki account, request one.
• Reminder: Post questions for Harry Foster for him to answer in the presentation on the Mentor verification survey.
• Reminder: Take ownership of items that interest you and update the collected requirements list
• How do we move items forward for further development?
  • Things like: DPI, simplify creation of RTL macros, Matrix Math Packages
• Continue discussion of language change requirements.

Remember, this is Twiki. If you see an error in the minutes, correct them and let us know on the reflector.

P&P

• Section 9 topic on voting in section 7.
• Will put up to vote.

Harry Foster Presentation

• Harry presentation on Mentor's survey
• Harry perfer late July.
• Erich M. willing to talk to future of PSL
  • Leverage PSL more effectively in VHDL - Jim, Hans, Martin interested

Move Items Forward

• Obvious things like DPI, creating RTL macros, Matrix Math Packages
• Prioritization Vote - Peter
• What is the focus of the next language revision? - John Shields
  • Ryan - do we need to focus on one thing?
    • Modeling vs Verification
    • Do we even have a focus we can agree on?
  • John - Productivity, integration, verificaiton, parity with SV/e,
    • Without focus, will not necessarily have a complete solution
    • make sure have a complete enough solution to be relevant
• Ranking by:
  • Ease of implementation?
  • Importance of feature?
  • Does it meet our focus?
  • Do we need proposals first?
  • Rank without details?
  • Is someone willing to work on it?
• What features have not been implemented by anyone(of VHDL-2008) - David K

Collected requirements

• Take ownership
• Break out major items to subpages.

Action Items:

• Jim: Add meeting whiteboard link to meeting announcement -- Done
• Jim: Call for Vote on Operating Procedures for P1076 Working Group -- Done
• John Shields: Coordinate development of requirements template
• All: Vote on Operating Procedures for P1076 Working Group
• All: List your self in the working group roster (required to vote)
  • http://www.eda.org/twiki/bin/view.cgi/P1076/VhdlRoster
  • If you do not have a twiki account, send email to Jim.
• All: Organize Collected Requirements list
  • Have list for voting on soon (after July 14 meeting)

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday July 14, 8 am Pacific