IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of October 19, 2009

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx

• Not Attending
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • Jim Robinson, Synopsys
  • NSS Subramanian, Cadence
  • David Tran, Synopsys
  • Gary Delp, LSI

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 9/21/2009
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Other Business
12. Adjourn

Minutes

Attendance/Quorum

We have 3/5 eligible entities, and have a working quorum.

Patent Policy

The Patent slides were offered for review.

No new claims were disclosed at the call for essential patent claims.

Agenda Approval

Motion by Dave G, seconded by Michael. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Duth moved and Dave G seconded the approval of the September 21, 2009 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Inter-operability Testing

Steven introduced questions from John and Gauraw where more detail is needed on intended syntax between Verilog and VHDL. The group discussed the history behind the two standards.

Duth suggested compiling a more comprehensive set of questions and issues, and Steve recommended using the reflector for that purpose.

Dave G suggested that the version keyword should be scoped per envelope. Steve indicated that this would require blocks to be terminated with `pragma protect end reset for Verilog. Dave G pointed out that unencrypted version pragmas would be a security concern if they specified security-sensitive semantics.

License Management

Key Management

Other Business

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for November 2, 2009 at 16:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 10/19/2009
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. License Management
10. Key Management
11. Other Business
12. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Michael, second by Duth. Approved by acclamation at 16:23UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the November 2, 2009 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 2009-11-02