IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - October 12, 2010 8am PDT (17:00 CET)

Status: approved on Nov. 9, 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 meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

1. Call to order on October 12, 2010 at 8:05am PST

Ernst welcomed the participants and started presenting the meeting slides.

2. Approval of the Agenda

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

3. Administrative Issues

• Minutes from August 8 working group meeting
  Motion to approve from David, Joachim seconded. No objections or abstentions. Minutes approved.
• Minutes from September 14 working group meeting
  Motion to approve from David, Joachim seconded. No objections or abstentions. Minutes approved.
• New email adress for Ernst, immediately effective: christen.1858@comcastNOSPAM.net.
• Publicity
  August deadline for SNE missed. Next one in Spring 2011.
• Review of IEEE patent policy
  Ernst offered a review of the IEEE patent policy. Participants waived the review.
• 1076.1.1 standard revision
  Ernst received a 4-page response from IEEE. WG approved version D1.2. New version D1.3 including updates from IEEE feedback reviewed and approved at the meeting (quorum reached, no objection, no abstention). Ernst to submit D1.3 version to IEEE liaison.
• 1076.1 standard revision
  Copyright issue: No response from IEEE. DASC OK. Ernst will wait about one more month and then submit the PAR to IEEE without copyright. See what will happen then.

Project Status and Updates

VHPI-AMS (David Smith)

No progress since last meeting. Waiting for Cadence inputs.

1076.1.1 Integration (David Smith)

No progress. Waiting for Peter Ashenden's inputs.
Technical writer employment: IEEE takes the legal side, WG is responsible for funding. Good time to ask for funding as next year budgets are being defined, bit it will take time to get funding anyway.
Possible techical editor other than Peter? This task requires a good language knowledge. Peter is preferred.

Other Mandatory Changes (Ernst Christen)

First meeting expected early November.

Frequency Domain Modeling (Ernst Christen)

White paper in preparation. To be first reviewed by subcommittee members, then by the WG for a vote.
Implications on language definitions (LRM) and on capabilities of simulation algorithms.

Table-Driven Modeling (Joachim Haase)

Five votes back so far, only two valid. One editorial comment on revision history. Requirement document to be updated.

Vector/Matrix Operations (Zhichao Deng)

Requirement document being finalized with use cases. To be reviewed within subcommittee and then by WG. Next meeting will address implementation issues.

Next steps

Publicity also in Design & Test of Computers magzine, DASC column.

Next meetings

Telcos on November 9 & December 7, 2010.

AOB

None.

Adjourn

Ernst adjourned the meeting at 8:45 PDT (17h45 CET).