IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - October 12, 2016, 8am PDT (15:00 UTC)

Status: approved by WG on December 7, 2016

Attendees

• Ernst Christen, Mentor Graphics (WG chair, note taker)
• Alain Vachoux, EPFL (LRM editor)
• Joachim Haase, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS (note taker)

Agenda

• Call to order
• Approval of agenda
• Administrative issues
  • Minutes of September 7, 2016 meeting
  • IEEE patent policy
  • Handling of copyrighted material
• Project discussion
  
  • LCSs: 201x-21: Alternate Forms to Transfer Function
  • Other projects: TDM and VMO packages, Q'SLEW
  • LRM status
• Next meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

Call to order

Ernst started the meeting at 8:03 am PDT.

Agenda

Agenda was approved without changes.

Administrative issues

Approval of minutes
Minutes of the 2016-09-07 meeting were approved. Alain moved, seconded by Joachim.

Review of IEEE patent policy
Review of patent policy was skipped because all participants in the telephone conference were regulars.

Handling of copyrighed material
Ernst received a Copyright Permission Letter from Cadence and Eastman Kodak. Synopsys and Accelera are working on it.

Project discussion

TDM and VMO packages
Table Driven Modelling (TDM) package shall be provided under an Open Source copyright. The same will be recommended for the Vector Matrix Operations (VMO) package. Further details can be found in the meeting slides..

LCS 201x-21 Transfer Functions
The LCS 201x-21 was revised. There is no easy way to overcome the problems that were addressed in the 2016-09-07 meeting. Details can be found in the meeting slides.. It was discussed to add a note into the LRM that gives a hint on how to overcome numerical problems with the existing declaration of `LTF and `ZTF attributes.

Q'SLEW
In the past, a problem was observed with the Q`SLEW attribute at discontinuities. It should work in the same way as S`SLEW where S is a real-valued signal. To adjust the behavior, Ernst presented a proposal on how to solve the problem. Further details can be found in the meeting slides.

LRM status and next steps
The LRM status and next steps are summarized in the meeting slides.. Ernst will inform the WG about the status of the LRM process and the schedule for LRM review and approval by the WG and formation of a balloting group.

AOB

There was no AOB.

Adjourn

The meeting ended at 9:25 am PDT.

-- Joachim Haase - 2016-11-07