IEEE P1076.1 Working Group - Table-Driven Modeling Project - Telco Meeting Minutes of August 6, 2014

Attendees

• Ernst Christen
• Alain Vachoux
• Joachim Haase (meeting convener, note taker)

This was a web meeting. The main discussion topics of the meeting are covered by the meeting slides. The minutes complement the meeting slides.

Agenda

• Call to order
• Approval of agenda
• Starting point
  • Current status
  • Feedback
  • Next steps
• Next meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

Call to order

Joachim started the meeting at 8:03 am PDT.

Approval of agenda

Agenda unanimously approved.

Starting point

Current status
This meeting is a restart of the TDM activities that were stopped in 2012.

Feedback
There was a long discussion on the feedback of Alain Courtay. It concerned

• Preparation/preprocessing phase
  Two phases will be in accordance with VHDL programing style. Encapsulation of data and methods by using protected types will allow optimized implementation.
• Quadratic interpolation
  This is included in the proposal to be in accordance with Verilog-AMS.
• Filling the data point grid
  It is not necessary to fill the grid before using the TDM routines.
• Different types of interpolation
  The different types are used taking into consideration the natural additional conditions derived from interpolation and extrapolation.
• Integral an partial derivatives
  A function for 1D integration shall be provided by the TDM package.
• Holding one of its variables to a specified value
  This can be done using the VHDL features in a preprocessing step.
• Specifc function
  It would be nice to have them. But it seems that they are not mandatory.

Next steps

• Ernst will provide a proposal on how to use protected types. This was done in the meantime. See for more information the zip file and the 2014-08-13 WG minutes.
• Joachim will prepare a proposal for 1D integration.

Next meeting

Wednesday, August 20, 2013 at 8am PDT or 17:00 CEST.

AOB

None.

Adjourn

The meeting was closed at 18:00 CEST.

Action items

Ernst:

• Proposal on how to use protected types

Joachim:

• Proposal for 1D integration

-- JoachimHaase - 2014-08-14