IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - August 10, 2010 8am PST (17:00 CET)

Status: approved by WG on October 12, 2010

Attendees

• Ernst Christen (chair, meeting convener)
• Zhichao Deng
• Joachim Haase
• David Smith
• Thuy Tran
• Alain Vachoux (note taker)

Agenda

• Call to order
• Approval of agenda
• Administrative issues
• Project status and updates
• Next steps and next meetings
• AOB
• Adjourn

1. Call to order on August 10, 2010 at 8:05am PST

Ernst welcomed the participants and started presenting the meeting slides.

2. Approval of the Agenda

Motion from Alain, Joachim seconded. No objections and abstentions. Agenda approved.

3. Administrative Issues

• Minutes from July 13 working group meeting
  Motion to approve from Joachim, Alain seconded. No objections or abstentions. Minutes approved.
• Publicity
  Paper in Simulation News in Europe to be authored by Ernst and Joachim. Deadline end of August. 4 pages.Content: brief intro to P1076.1, discussion of current projects for extending the language, ask for participation.
  At last DASC meeting, it was suggested to start a blog with contributions from WG chairs. Opportunity to update the DASC community at large.
  WG subcommittees may want to publish technical topics to magazines or journals.
• Review of IEEE patent policy
  Ernst offered a review of the IEEE patent policy. Participants waived the review.
• 1076.1.1 standard revision
  Ernst still trying to contact Peter Ashenden about LRM editing. IEEE ballot may only starts after that step is done.
• 1076.1 standard revision
  Open questions regarding copyrights obtained for 1076. DASC to decide if 1076.1 is formally a derivative work of 1076 or not (1076.1 is a superset of 1076). If yes, copyrights can be transferred to 1076.1. If not, IEEE SA must define what a derivative work is.
  David Bishop's contribution to the Vector/Matrix operation project and related IP rights must be nevertheless investigated further.
  WG vote on PAR can only start when all these issues are fixed, as the PAR must include this information.

4. Project Status and Updates

4.1 VHPI-AMS (David Smith)

Cadence contribution yet to come. Expect material similar to Verilog-AMS API. May reduce the amount of manpower needed to develop the VHDL-AMS solution. For the moment, Peter Ashenden's contribution on object analysis is more important.

4.2 Genericity (John Willis)

No news from John. Ernst will try to contact him.

4.3 Other Mandatory Changes (Ernst Christen)

Peter Ashenden made a suggestion on the editing process: move 1076-2008 text in 1076.1-2007 LRM, make a new baseline, and work from the new baseline.

4.4 1076.1.1 Integration (David Smith)

Ernst to work with Peter Ashenden to define LRM editing contract. There may be funding issues (WG has still some money, but we'll may need to ask for sponsoring as we already did once before). Editorial work should start in last quarter of 2010.
Need to consider how other tools are supporting dimensional analysis.

4.5 Mixed Netlists (Ernst Christen)

No progress. Work is planned to start in last quarter of 2010.

4.6 Frequency Domain Modeling (Ernst Christen)

Good progress. Up to 6 persons participated to the subcommittee's meetings.
Frequency-domain model only. Question is to determine if equivalent time-domain model can be formally derived by using convolution.

4.7 PDE Support (John Willis)

No update from John Willis or Tom Kazmierski.

4.8 Table-Driven Modeling (Joachim Haase)

See slides.

4.9 Vector/Matrix Operations (Zhichao Deng)

Basic schedule defined. Requirements are being finalized and will be presented to the WG once this is done. Next meeting on August 16.

4.10 Uniform Use of SPICE Models (John Willis)

No news from John.

5. Next steps and next meetings

Next steps: see slides.

Next meeting at FDL 2010 on Sept. 14. David will be present and will chair. Agenda is to give an overview of 1076.1 WG, then an overview of each project. Ernst to contact Tom Kazmierski about audio/telco facilities. Subcommittee chairs are invited to submit a status to David by end of August.

6. AOB

None.

7. Adjourn

Ernst adjourned the meeting at 9:00am PDT.