1) Call to Order – Introductions & Affiliations Neil Korpusik Sun DR

Dave Rich Mentor DR

Karen Pieper Accellera DR

Mehdi Mohteshemi Synopsys DR

Steven Dovich Liason for P1735

Charles Dawson Cadence DR

Yossi Levi Intel DR

John Havlicek SV-AC chair

Stu Sutherland Editor

2) Approve agenda:

1. ) Call to order – Introductions & affiliations
2. ) Approve agenda
3. ) Patent Policy and Call for Patents
4. ) Approval of Meeting Minutes - 4.5) P1735 Interactions
5. ) Funding, Budgeting, and Financial update
6. ) Editing Update
7. ) Schedule Status Update
8. ) P1800 Technical Committees and Champions Operational Update
9. ) New Business
10. ) Next meeting
11. ) Adjournment

Neil moves to approve the agenda. Mehdi seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

3) Call for Patents Chair Pieper provided the location for the IEEE patent slides. See: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

Chair Pieper directed the group’s attention to the URL for the patent policy.

4) November 15 Meeting minutes Neil moves that we approve the minutes for November 15. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

AI

Karen to fix the date in the link on the Wiki page.

December 13 Meeting minutes Neil moves that we approve the minutes for December 13. Mehdi seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

January 31, 2008 Meeting minutes Neil moves we approve with the update to the spelling of Mehdi’s name. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

[AI] Karen to fix the spelling on Mehdi’s name.

4.5) P1735 has requested that their committee have access to drafts of the SV standard. Dave moves that we make the password protected version of the P1800 LRM drafts available to voting members of the IEEE P1735. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

How can P1735 contribute to maintaining the encryption portions of the standard?

5) Funding, Budgeting and Financial Update IEEE should have been invoiced for the 2008 operating expenses.

AI: Karen to check status with Noelle, and to check that the request for Sun, Accellera, Intel, Mentor has gone out.

6) Editing update.

Stu has started working on the preliminary revision of the next draft. He is worried that this is a huge number of changes for a draft. He is also worried about the size and number of changes coming from the SV-AC. They are adding 150 to 200 pages to the LRM. From a pure technical point of view, he is concerned about impacts to the rest of the language.

AI

Stu to develop a proposal for editing impacts of the current changes.

Stu will forward the SV-CC chapters to the SV-CC so that they can edit the diagrams in place.

7) Schedule Status Update

February 28, 2008 SV-AC freeze

February 28, 2008 Teleconference 8am

March 27, 2008 Teleconference 8am

April 15, 2008 SV-CC freeze / All committees freeze

April 24, 2008 Champions meeting to approve final features

May 1, 2008 Feature freeze in the P1800

May 1, 2008 Teleconference 8am

May 29, 2008 Teleconference 8am

* Pre-ballot draft available (Draft 5)

* Proposed IEEE submission for third paid review

June 5, 2008 Remind entities to become members

June 21, 2008 Date for completion of IEEE review

June 30, 2008 Last editing corrections filed in svdb

July 1, 2008 Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review

July 7, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot

July 15, 2008 Champions meeting

July 30, 2008 P1800 approval due

August 7, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete

August 7, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot

August 15, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed

* Ballot draft available

* Balloting begins

September 15, 2008 Ballot closes

September 25, 2008 Two year anniversary for officer elections

September 30, 2008 Ballot responses available

October 30, 2008 Committees respond to ballot responses

November 15, 2008 Champions meeting

November 30, 2008 P1800 approval

December 15, 2008 Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for 1800-2005)

January 1, 2009 Recirculation results back

February 15, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA Approval

April 15, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication available

The SV-CC has requested that their schedule be extended to April 15 to review SV-AC VPI changes.

The SV-AC has requested that their schedule be extended to March 31 to work on VPI issues.

AI) Stu to determine if he can complete the editing for the ballot draft by May 29.

8) P1800 Technical Committees and Champions Operational Update

1. ) Reviewed Technical Committee Slides can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/att-0663/committees022808.pdf

John Havlicek has resigned as the Chair of the SV-AC. The SV-AC is currently on a path to elect a new Chair and Co-Chair.

Neil makes a motion to allow the SV-AC to work on feedback from the Champions and other committees on their proposals until P1800 goes to ballot. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

Charles moves to allow the SV-CC to work until April 15 to review SV-AC VPI items. Neil seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

AI) Karen to update the schedule.

Neil moves to allow the SV-BC to work on 2269 until March 31, 2008. Dave seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

AI) Mehdi will check to find out how much support for the data read API there is.

Neil moves to allow the SV-EC to work on 1897, 2242, and 2243. Dave seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

1. ) Reviewed Champions issues (http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/0663.html). Neil moves that we approve the first 22 items in his list that were unanimously approved by the Champions. Dave seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

Neil moves that we approve 2181. Yossi seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

Neil moves that we approve 1995. Yossi seconds. Dave is opposed. Motion passes.

Neil moves that we approve 1858. Mehdi seconds. Charles is opposed. Motion passes.

Neil moves that we approve 2249, 2233, 2229, 1827, 1758, 0675. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

Neil moves that we approve 1772. Dave seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

9) New business

Karen is in contact with Hamguchi-san about Jeita's continued interaction with the P1800.

10) Next Meeting March 27, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference, 8am Pacific May 1, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference, 8am Pacific May 29, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference, 8am Pacific

11) Adjournment Neil moves to adjourn at 10:18.