Meeting 52 Minutes

Teleconference, June 8, 2009

A quorum of seven out of eight voting members present. Five non-voting members are also present. Attendance and voter status indicated on the online roster.

Monday, June 8, 2009, 1600 UTC; 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time

Attendees

  • Voting members (7/8 voting members present)

    • Andrew Piziali

    • Brett Lammers

    • Darren Galpin

    • Dave von Bank

    • Joe Hupcey

    • Stylianos Diamantidis

    • Yaron Kashai

  • Non-voting members

    • Dean D'Mello

    • Henry von Bank

    • Mike Bartley

    • Matan Vax

    • Tucker Brown

1. Call to order meeting 52 on June 9 at 9:02 am PDT (1602 UTC)

2. Approval of May 11 meeting 51 minutes

  • Solicit motion to approve the minutes

  • Joe Hupcey motioned

  • Andrew Piziali seconded

  • Minutes approved

3. Status update

  • Officer Election

    • Secretary .... to be appointed

    • Andrew volunteered to take minutes for this meeting

  • New E-mail Reflector and Webpage

    • E-mail reflector: ieee1647@eda.org

    • Wiki: http://www.eda.org/twiki/

    • The original web site will be linked into the new web site for archival

    • The Mantis bug tracking system should be tried out on the new web site

    • Mantis has all the features (and more) as the previous system

  • CDNLive!

    • If desired, slides should be coordinated with the local CDNLive! group.

  • Action Items

    • 11 May 09

      • Darren – will post call-for-participation letters in the Yahoo! Specman group and Verification Guild - Done

      • Srini – will post call-for-participation letters in the Yahoo! ASIC design group and the Bangalore universities - Done

      • Joe H. – will post call-for-participation letter to Cadence customers through their AE contacts

      • Joe H. – will post call-for-participation letter to Team Specman - Done

      • Mike M. – will write call-for-participation letter to John Cooley for posting on DeepChip

    • 1 Dec 08

      • Joe H. – will identify a driver customer for each language addition on the table and ask them to join the eWG and contribute both labor and, if necessary, funding. — Pending

        • 6 June: No progress to date.

        • 11 May: Brett and Joe now have access to the support database so they can search for relevant customers for each features. They will be working with their AEs on this. Brett has not yet figured how to extract the needed information but it will be labor intensive.

        • 13 Apr: Joe asked Alan Ahlschlager if he and Brett Lammers can access the support database.

        • 6 Mar: Joe is coordinating this with CDNS Support, correlating enhancement requests with P1647-2010 features. Expected to be a somewhat slow process as service requests are not currently categorized by language construct.

  • Task Forces

    • Constraints (lead: Mark Strickland)

      • Named checks

      • Named constraints

      • Type constraints

      • Documents have been reviewed and issues submitted into the bug tracking system

    • Coverage (lead: Andrew Piziali)

      • Temporal coverage

      • In the process of identifying changes required for the 2008 LRMl

      • Will post proposed changes through the Wiki

    • Macros (lead: Matan Vax)

      • Define-as-computed

      • No real progress but am browsing through the donated documents

      • Anticipating assistance of Cristian Amitroaie

      • AMIQ DVT now handles define-as-computed macros, a second implementation!

    • Ports (lead: Yaron Kashai)

      • Interface ports

      • TLM ports as in SystemC

      • Read through the document

      • Will post the text on the Wiki

    • Types (lead: Mike Bartley)

      • Parameterized types

      • Real data type

      • Mike has reached Henry Von Bank

      • Reviewed documents but no other progress so far

  • Encryption

    • Stylianos will tackle elaborating the encryption specification of e.


4. Other business

  • Any other business?

    • Mail a message to ieee1647@edaNOSPAM.org (the general email reflector) if you were not recorded in these minutes!

    • Anticipated e LRM editor Al Kolka (Cadence) is tied up with the fall Specman release so he is not yet available


5. Call for essential patents

  • The IEEE-SA updated the patent policy effective April 2008

  • The details are available in updated slide set at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf. (See "Patent related" from the IEEE 1647 home page, "Slides About IEEE Patent Policy").

  • If you believe that any patent claims are essential patent claims, please inform the working group. Review the posted slides for more information.


6. Next meeting

  • July 13 at 9 am PDT (1600 UTC)


7. Adjourn

  • Stylianos motioned

  • Mike Bartley seconded

  • Motion approved

  • Meeting adjourned at 9:23 am PDT (16:23 UTC)

-- DarrenGalpin - 09 Jun 2009

Topic revision: r1 - 2009-06-09 - 07:25:16 - DarrenGalpin
 
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