IEEE P1076.1 Working Group Telco Meeting Minutes - September 12, 2012, 8am PDT (15:00 GMT)

Status: approved.

Attendees

• Ken Bakalar, Mentor Graphics
• Ernst Christen, Mentor Graphics (WG chair, meeting convener)
• Joachim Haase, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS
• Alain Vachoux, EPFL (note taker)
• Joan Woolery, IEEE-SA Staff Liaison

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
  • Fundraising
  • P&P update
  • User group
• Project overview and status
• Next meeting
• AOB
• Adjourn

Call to order

Ernst opened the meeting and welcomed the attendees at 8:06am PDT. The quorum has been reached (6 voting members, so the quorum requires 4 participants).

Approval of the agenda

Alain moved to approve. Ken seconded. No objections and abstentions. Agenda approved.

Administrative issues

Minutes of May 9, 2012 working group meeting
Ken moved to approve. Alain seconded. No objections and abstentions. Minutes approved.

Minutes of June 13, 2012 working group meeting
Joachim moved to approve. Alain seconded. No objections and abstentions. Minutes approved.

Patent policy
Ernst summarized the IEEE patent policy and asked the attendees to visit the web site listed in the presentation to study it.

Fund raising status
Ernst summarized the history of the fund raising process. Several meetings with IEEE-SA and WG officers explored possibles options. The currently considered option is to create a the WG member category of Supporter. Details have to be defined in updated WG P&Ps.

P&P update
Main topics addressed in the discussion:

• IEEE-SA is OK with a P&P update. New template available from September 7.
• Supporters may be entities or individuals, but cannot be voting members. The P1076 WG remains individual-based. Careful wording in updated P&P required.
• Supporter members would contribute to funding WG work. Money could be managed by WG. IEEE Professional Services could be used for managing contracts.
• DASC is already aware of the intent to update the 1076.1 P&Ps. Ernst outlined a schedule for getting the update sometimes in November 2012.

User group
Intent is to attract more interest in VHDL-AMS in general and in the standard development in particular.
Main topics addressed in the discussion:

• Ernst exchanged a few emails with the japanese JSAE working group without many results so far. Zhichao Deng mentioned two organizations in China that could be associated to VHDL-AMS activities in some way.
• Ken inquired on the status in the academic world. Joachim mentioned links to automotive industry. Alain mentioned teaching activities and limited local links with Swiss industry.
• Ken pushed to have a clear objective of the user group, well-defined benefits to get it organized, a clear appeal.
• An agreement has been reached on asking VHDL-AMS tool vendors to poll their users on the interest/need to have a user group.
• From the IEEE-SA perspective, there is no problem to create a user group having relations with the IEEE WG.
• The Modelica initiative has been considered as a possible umbrella for the user group, but it finally showed to mix user and standardization work too tightly.
• Interest in the standardization work decreased since users got more interested in models than in language.

Project overview and status

The first three projects (VHPI-AMS, 1076.1.1 integration, and other mandatory changes) require an updated baseline LRM. This is on hold until the fund raising process is complete and the contract work on the LRM is done. The project status are given in the meeting slides.

Next steps

As in the meeting slides, plus Ernst to contact VHDL-AMS tool vendors about a user group.

Next regular working group telco will be on October 10, 2012 at 8am PDT (15:00 UTC, 17:00 CEST).

AOB

None.

Adjourn

Ernst thanked the participants and adjourned the meeting at 9:07am PDT.