Date: 2011-02-01

Time: 16:30 UTC (8:30 PST)

Duration: 1.5 hours

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Agenda:

- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.

See: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

- Minutes approval

- Email ballot results

1933 passed

2412 failed

- New issues

- Issue resolution/discussion

Addressing champions' feedback

2804: Need to clarify rule (b) in 16.15.6 to allow inferred clock when

expression appears in procedural assertion

3113: Add port_identifier to constant_primary BNF for sequences,

properties and checkers

2476: Need clarification about system functions $onehot, etc

2412: Allow clock inference in sequences

2938: Surprising (to some users) interaction between deferred assertions

& short-circuiting

- Enhancement progress update

2328: Review and relax restrictions on data types in assertions

- Opens

Attendance Record:

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v = valid voter (2 out of last 3 or 3/4 overall)

n = not a valid voter

t = chair eligible to vote only to make or break a tie

Attendance re-initialized on 2010-07-06:

n[xx...........................] Ashok Bhatt (Cadence)

v[xx-xxx-xxxxxxxxx-x-xxxxx--xxx] Laurence Bisht (Intel)

v[x-xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-] Eduard Cerny (Synopsys)

v[--xxx--x-xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx] Ben Cohen

n[----------xx-x-xxx-x--xxxxxxx] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)

n[----x-x-x--xx---xxxx---x-xxxx] Dana Fisman (Synopsys)

n[--------xxxxx-xxxx-x-xxxxxxxx] John Havlicek (Freescale)

v[xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx] Tapan Kapoor (Cadence)

t[xxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Dmitry Korchemny (Intel ¿ Chair)

v[xxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxx-xxxxxxxx] Scott Little (Freescale)

v[xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx] Manisha Kulshrestha (Mentor Graphics)

v[xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Anupam Prabhakar (Mentor Graphics)

v[xxx--x-xx-xxx-xx--xxxxxxx-xxx] Erik Seligman (Intel)

v[xx-xxxx-xxxx--xxxxxx-xxxxxxx.] Samik Sengupta (Synopsys)

v[xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx] Tom Thatcher (Oracle ¿ Co-Chair)

n[-------x.....................] Srini Venkataramanan (CVS Pvt)

|- attendance on 2011-02-01

|--- voting eligibility on 2011-02-01

Minutes:

- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.

See: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

Participants were reminded of the IEEE patent policy.

- Minutes approval

Eric: Move to approve minutes

Scott: Second

Vote results: 7y, 0n, 0a

- Face-to-face:

Tom: Who will host?

Dmitry: Who will attend?

Tom, Erik, Dmitry, Anupam, possibly Scott.

(Tapan and Manisha joined).

- Email ballot results

1933 passed

2412 failed

Discussion of 2412:

Scott: Assertion a2 should use matched, not triggered.

Anupam: Made the change.

Scott: Assertion a4 can use triggered.

Anupam: Made the change.

Tom: Shouldn't assertion a3 also use matched?

Anupam: There is a difference between a2 and a3:

In a3, the clock is already changed before the e4.triggered, so

triggered is ok here.

Tom: OK.

Ed: Disagree that sequence method e4.triggered infers clock clk_e2

Shouldn't e4.triggered get its clock from point of instantiation?

Manisha: Does LRM state whether rewriting algorithm is applied before

clock flow rules.

Anupam: If rewriting algorithm is applied before clock flow, then what we

have is correct.

Tapan: Seems that different rules apply inside assertion or outside

assertion

Anupam: That was intentional.

Ed: Consistent with sampled value functions, which will not infer

clock when used inside clocking or disable conditions.

Dmitry: It would be confusing for a clocking or disable expression to infer

from the default clock.

Tapan: OK with that explanation.

Manisha: Annex F: F.2 Re-writing algorithm is applied before clock

inferencing is applied.

Anupam: Given this, what we have now should be correct.

Ed: Need to think about this more carefully.

Dmitry: Other minor comments: comments in example should not be in bold.

Ed: In last example: checker is defined inside a module. This may be

an unusual usage.

Manisha: In example, default clocking needs an endclocking.

- Issue resolution/discussion

Addressing champions' feedback

2804: Need to clarify rule (b) in 16.15.6 to allow inferred clock when

expression appears in procedural assertion

Erik: Added example. The example shows how clock inference is applied

both before and after. If a clock can be inferred either time, then

that clock will be the inferred clock.

3113: Add port_identifier to constant_primary BNF for sequences,

properties and checkers

Will discuss next week.

2476: Need clarification about system functions $onehot, etc

Dmitry: Adam Krolnik suggested consolidating, just using $countbits

function.

Tom: Comments seem to be unanimous in changing the "bit-shot" function.

Erik: Should we just move this to chapter 20, as people suggest?

Erik: Second question: Would these functions go in 20.13 with other

Would other functions, like sampled-value functions also go in ch 20?