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
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)