IEEE P1735 Working Group Meeting of April 5, 2010

Meeting Info

Conference Bridge and Live-Meeting

Participants

• Attending
  • Steven Dovich, Cadence
  • Nick Sgoupis, CAST
  • Dave Graubart, Synopsys
  • Michael Smith, Synopsys
  • John Shields, Mentor
  • Gary Delp, Accellera/Silver Loon Systems
  • Dave Clemans, Synopsys
  • Ray Martin, Xilinx

• Not Attending
  • Bin Dai, Xilinx
  • Ruchi Tyagi, Cadence
  • Nitin Khurana, Cadence
  • Syed Huq, Cisco
  • Premduth Vidyanandan, Xilinx
  • Parminder Gill, Synopsys
  • William A Hanna, Boeing
  • Karlton Lau, Xilinx
  • Meera Srinivasan, Synopsys
  • Jim Robinson, Synopsys
  • NSS Subramanian, Cadence
  • David Tran, Synopsys

Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 03/22/2010
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 3/4 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 John. Motion is approved.

Previous Minutes

Dave G moved and Michael seconded the approval of the March 22, 2010 minutes. The motion was approved.

Action Item Review

Steven reviewed the open action items.

Liaison Reports

Steven reported on the discussions at last week's DASC meeting.

John gave an overview of activity in the VHDL working group.

Inter-operability Testing

John and Steven reported that the currently identified issues have been resolved in our recommendations and there are no remaining active issues other than test suite structure and a process for accepting contributions.

License Management

Michael gave an overview of the work to date on license management.

Key Management

Steven and John gave an overview of the work to date on key management.

Other Business

Dave reviewed the results of discussions since the last meeting on next steps for P1735. This overview appears in the Work Plan document. John noted that a key repository abstraction needs to be added to the Work Items list.

Steven briefly reviewed an Abstract Flow model that could serve as a foundation for discussions involving IP rights management. John suggested that we should also incorporate elements from our presentation to P1800.

Next Meeting

The next P1735 meeting is scheduled for April 19, 2010 at 15:00UTC.

Tentative Agenda

1. Determine Quorum
2. Patent slides
3. Approve agenda
4. Approval of Meeting minutes from 04/05/2010
5. Action Items Status
6. Liaison Reports
7. Meeting Schedule
8. Inter-operability testing
9. LRM errata
10. License Management
11. Key Management
12. Other Business
13. Adjourn

Adjournment

Motion by Gary, second by John. Approved by acclamation at 16:28UTC

Approval

These minutes were approved at the April 19, 2010 meeting.

-- StevenDovich - 2010-04-19