IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - June 13, 2012, 8am PDT (15:00 GMT)

Status: approved.

Attendees

• Ernst Christen, Mentor Graphics (WG chair, meeting convener)
• Joachim Haase, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS
• Alain Vachoux, EPFL (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
• Administrative issues
• Project overview and status
• Next meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

Call to order

Ernst opened the meeting and welcomed the attendees at 8:14am PDT. The access code for the audio participation was not mentioned in the invitation. Also, the quorum has not been reached (6 voting members, so the quorum requires 4 participants).

Approval of the agenda

Agenda approved.

Administrative issues

Minutes of May 9, 2012 working group meeting
Cannot be approved as there is no quorum. To be approved at the next WG meeting.
Ernst discussed further the point on the JSAE Working Group In Japan. He mentioned that there is now a web site that should give more details about the activities of the WG.

Fundraising
The IEEE requirements for the fundraising process were detailed. The 1076.1 WG will submit a formal application to the IEEE by August 10, which includes the required budget. The application is to be examined by the IEEE Board in a September meeting. When approved, the WG has to create the sollicitation letter and to define who to send the letter. The IEEE will be responsible for following the process, to make the necessary aknowledgements and to receive the money. The mandatory IEEE work will cost an additional 5K$.
IEEE-SA is also looking for other, maybe lighter, processes as the request budget (6K$ for the contracted work) is well lower than then ones that are usually managed in that context.
One problem is that many WG projects will require an updated baseline 1076.1 LRM before integrating new features. Projects dealing with new packages (TDM, matrix vector operations) are less touched with that.

DAC 2012 BoF Meeting
Ernst reported indirectly on a meeting that aimed to discuss the needs for system-level mixed-signal modeling language standards. No real conclusions were reached, but the discussion finally focused on verification issues. Real-value event-driven modeling with SystemVerilog, SystemC and Verilog-AMS was discussed. Ernst raised the question on how far VHDL 1076.1 is currently supporting this approach and what would be missing yet.

Project overview and status

Only the TDM project has been reported. Ongoing discussions with the P1076 WG about the support of opaque types.

Next meeting

Next regular working group telcos will be on July 11, 2012 at 8am PDT (15:00 UTC, 17:00 CEST) and August 8, same time.

AOB

None.

Adjourn

Ernst thanked the participants and adjourned the meeting at 8:50am PDT.