1) Call to Order; Introductions & Affiliations

• Stu Sutherland Editor
• Dave Rich Mentor DR
• Mehdi Mohteshemi Synopsys DR
• Shalom Bresticker Intel
• Yossi Levi Intel DR
• Karen Pieper Accellera DR
• Neil Korpusik Sun DR
• Charles Dawson Cadence DR

2) Approve agenda:

1. ) Call to order; Introductions & affiliations
2. ) Approve agenda
3. ) Patent Policy and Call for Patents
4. ) Approval of Meeting Minutes
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

Dave moves to approve the agenda. Yossi 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) Approval of Minutes

• Neil moves that we approve the minutes for the May 29, 2008 meeting. Mehdi seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

5) Funding, Budgeting and Financial Update

• IEEE on track to pay Stu.
• IEEE in process of Draft 6 review. Karen to check that they are using the clean draft.

6) Editing update.

• Draft 6 was completed two weeks ago and posted.

7) Schedule Status Update

• May 29, 2008 Approximate date for Draft 6
• -------------- Proposed IEEE submission for third paid review
• June 26, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• July 20 (was 1), 2008 Date for completion of third IEEE review
• August 1, 2008 Proposed feature freeze for the Assertions integration committee
• August 7, 2008 Champions meeting to confirm final changes
• August 14, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- Feature freeze in the P1800
• September 11, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- Pre-ballot draft available (Draft 7)
• -------------- Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review
• September 20, 2008 Remind entities to become members
• September 25, 2008 Two year anniversary for officer elections
• October 11, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete
• October 23, 2008 Last editing corrections filed in svdb
• October 23, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot
• October 30, 2008 Champions meeting
• November 13, 2008 P1800 approval due
• November 21, 2008 Adding the date for the Ballot draft to be available. We will look into pulling this date in in the September meeting
• November 23, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot
• November 30, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed
• -------------- Ballot draft available
• -------------- Balloting begins
• December 30, 2008 Ballot closes
• January 15, 2009 Ballot responses available
• February 15, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses
• February 22, 2009 Champions meeting
• March 1, 2009 P1800 approval
• March 15, 2009 Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for 1800-2005)
• April 1, 2009 Recirculation results back
• June 15, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA Approval
• August 15, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication available

• We should consider having Draft 7a available earlier in November, so that there can be a longer review.

• Dave has some concern that agreement on the SV-SC items are not all converging fast enough to make the August 1 freeze. The committee agreed to leave our August 14 meeting where it is, and not move it earlier. The SV-SC should continue to drive toward closure.

8) P1800 Technical Committees and Champions Operational Update

• Reviewed Champions feedback:http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/0719.html
• Neil moves that we approve Mantis 2399, 2374. Dave seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
• Neil moves that we approve Mantis 2008. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
• Reviewed Technical Committee Slides can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/0719.html

9) New business

• Karen to check to see if we can update the draft available at the IEEE store.

10) Next Meeting

• September 11, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference, 8am Pacific

11) Adjournment

• Mehdi moves to adjourn.