Participants

• Karen Pieper -- Accellera DR
• Mehdi Mohtashemi -- Synopsys DR
• Shalom Bresticker -- Intel
• Matt Maidment -- Intel DRA
• Neil Korpusik -- Sun DR
• Chas Dawson -- Cadence DR
  • Neil moves to approve the proposal for 2143. Dennis seconds. Motion passes unanimously. * Alex Stanculescu -- Fintronic
• Dave Rich - Mentor DRA
• Cliff Cummings -- Sunburst Design
• Dennis Brophy - Mentor DR
• Jim Vellenga -- Cadence DRA

Agenda:

1) Call to order - Introductions & Affiliations

2) Approve agenda

• 1) Call to order - Introductions & Affiliations
• 2) Approve agenda
• 3) Patent Policy and Call for Patents
• 4) Approval of Minutes
• 5) Balloting of Officers
• 6) Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update
• 7) Editing update
  • Discussion of Names in the front of the LRM
• 8) Schedule Status Update
• 9) P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update
• 10) DATE
• 11) New Business
• 12) Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)
• 13) Adjournment Mehdi moves that we approve the agenda. Charles seconds. Passes Unanimously.

3) Patent Policy and Call for Patents

The Chair directs everyone's attention to the patent policy at: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

4) Approval of Minutes

• Minutes of the June 26, 2008 Meeting Dave Rich moves to approve the minutes. Mehdi seconds. Passes Unanimously.

5) Balloting of Officers

• September 25 is the 2 year anniversary for the officers election. We have positions for Chair, Co-Chair, Secretary.
• Cliff has volunteered to be the Returning Officer. He does not need to be a member of SA to serve.
• Charles is considering resigning as Chair of the SV-CC.

6) Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update

• All $1,100 assessments are in place except Sun which is actively moving forward.

7) Editing update

• Draft 6 is out and posted on the IEEE site for purchase.
• The IEEE feedback came back, and we are addressing the wording issues they raised.
• Discussion of Names in the front of the LRM
  • The technical committes are looking for feedback on the names for each committees
  • The committees will do the bulk of the work to determine who should be recognized for the LRM.
  • Will there be an opportunity to review it before ballot?
    • Change of companies for example.
  • This time, we will let the Chair and Co-Chair of each committee determine the list of participants from their committees.
    • We recommend it be a balance between attending more than 25% of the meetings or significant contribution as agreed upon by the committee.
  • The committees should return the list by October 16.
• Issue number 2226. Desired to reedit by SV-CC would be done by September 10.
  • There do not appear to be any technical issues with the proposal. Merely editing.

8) Schedule Status Update

• July 20, 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 16, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• 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 Teleconference 8am
• November 13, 2008 P1800 approval due
• November 21, 2008 Proposed completion date for draft 7a. We may want to move this earlier. Discussion planned for 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

9) P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update

• SV-AC, SV-BC, SV-EC, SV-CC and SV-SC
• We reviewed the committee status slides. They can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/att-0736/committees081408.pdf
  • The SV-SC needs until August 19 with the remaining issues the Champions raised.
  • The Champions are scheduled to meet on August 21. Issues 1900, 2226, 2398 remain
  • The SV-CC needs until September 10 to finish their edits of 2226
• Schedule Changes
  • Suspend this meeting until August 28 at 8am to approve 1900 and 2398
  • Approve 2226 now, for inclusion in draft on Sept 10 when SC-CC is done
  • Deliver draft 7 on September 25

The new schedule becomes:

• August 28, 2008 Feature freeze in the P1800
• September 11, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• September 25, 2008 Pre-ballot draft available (Draft 7)
• -------------- Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review
• -------------- Two year anniversary for officer elections
• October 4, 2008 Remind entities to become members
• October 16, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• October 25, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete
• November 6, 2008 Last editing corrections filed in svdb
• November 6, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot
• November 13, 2008 Champions meeting
• *** November 20, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- P1800 approval due
• December 5, 2008 Proposed completion date for draft 7a. We may want to move this earlier. Discussion planned for the September meeting.
• December 6, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot
• December 15, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed
• *** December 18, 2008 Teleconference 8am
• -------------- Ballot draft available
• -------------- Balloting begins
• January 15, 2008 Ballot closes
• January 31, 2009 Ballot responses available
• February 28, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses
• March 7, 2009 Champions meeting
• March 15, 2009 P1800 approval
• April 15, 2009 Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for 1800-2005)
• May 1, 2009 Recirculation results back
• June 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA Approval
• August 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication available

• Neil moves that we approve 2226, Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
• We reviewed Neil's document on the Champions Status that can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/0736.html:
  • Neil moves that we approve the 19 Mantis items that were unanimously approved by the Champions. Matt seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
  • Neil moves that we approve the 6 Mantis items that were approved with friendly amendments. Charles seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
  • Neil moves that we approve 2054. Dave seconds. Charles abstains. Motion passes.
  • We will add 2088 to the agenda of the suspension meeting on August 28.

10) DATE

• There is some interest in presenting the new Assertions work at DAC. There was agreement that this was a reasonable idea, and interested parties could go ahead.

11) New Business

• None.

12) Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)

• Suspend this meeting until 8am Pacific on August 28 to discuss 2088, 1900, and 2398.

13) Resumption

* The meeting was resumed on August 28. The attendees were:

• Karen Pieper -- Accellera DR
• Matt Maidment -- Intel DRA
• Neil Korpusik -- Sun DR
• Cliff Cummings -- Sunburst Design
• *Dennis Brophy - Mentor DR
• *Jim Vellenga -- Cadence DR
• Mehdi Mohtashemi -- Synopsys DR
• Dave Rich -- Mentor DRA

• 2088, 1900, 2398, 2143 Discussion. We reviewed the slides that can be found at: http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/att-0740/committees082808.pdf
  • Editing Update
    • Stu will deliver a draft 7 with whatever is approved by August 28 by September 10. We will pay for this draft.
    • He will then deliver the chapter required for 2226 to the SV-SC
    • The SV-SC will complete their editing updates by September 25
    • Stu will incorporate those changes into draft 7A at no cost.
    • 7A will be released to the IEEE for the final review.
  • Neil moves to approve the proposal for 2398. Dennis seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
  • Neil moves to approve the proposal for 2143. Dennis seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
  • Neil moves to approve the proposal for 1900. Matt seconds.
    • Dennis echoes Daves comments that we can't do an adequate technical job for something that has not been implemented.
    • Mentor opposes. No abstain. Motion passes.
  • Neil moves to approve the proposal for 2088. Matt seconds.
    • Mentor opposes. Cadence abstains. Motion passes.

14) Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)

• September 11, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference 8am pacific

15) Adjournment

• Matt moves that we adjourn at 8:28am.

-- KarenPieper - 14 Aug 2008