Date: 2011-04-05

Time: 16:00 UTC (9:00 PDT)

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

- New issues

3474: Extend assertion control to apply to 'violation reports' for

unique/priority case

- Issue resolution/discussion

- Enhancement progress update

3295: need a way to control only asserts/covers/assume directives

3069: Relax rules for $global_clock resolution

3213: Update definition of sampled value

3195: Local Variables Flow Out Issue in and/or/intersect/implies

- Mantis status

- Opens

Attendance Record:

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- = missed

r = represented

. = not yet a member

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:

v[xx-xxx-xxx...........................] Ashok Bhatt (Cadence)

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

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

n[-----xx---xxx--x-xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx] Ben Cohen

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

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

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

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

v[xxx-x-x..............................] Jacob Katz (Intel)

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

v[xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxx-xxxxxxxx] Scott Little (Freescale)

v[x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx] Manisha Kulshrestha (Mentor

Graphics)

v[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Anupam Prabhakar (Mentor

Graphics)

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

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

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

n[-xx---xx-------x.....................] Srini Venkataramanan (CVC

Pvt Ltd)

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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

Tom: I didn't attend, but Dmitry marked me as present.

Erik: Move to approve , with correction to Tom's attendance.

Scott Second

Vote results; 11y, 0n, 0a

(Mannisha joined)

- New issues

3474: Extend assertion control to apply to 'violation reports' for

unique/priority case

Erik: Unique or priority case statement: Called a violation report,

assertion control statements won't apply to these.

Maybe treat these messages as a different type of assertion.

Tom: Is it just as simple as adding new assertion types?

Erik: It may be more complicated than that.

- Enhancement progress update

3213: Update definition of sampled value

Reviewers have mainly made editorial comments. Will leave open

for comments.

Possibly set an e-mail ballot next week.

3295: need a way to control only asserts/covers/assume directives

Manisha: Added new set of control types for controlling the action.

Now we have pass-on, fail-on pass-off fail-off

Changed example: using let in the example.

Dmitry: Will call for an e-mail vote

3069: Relax rules for $global_clock resolution

Jacob: Feeback last time was to add more examples.

This proposal is not backward-compatible.

Dmitry: Effect of backward-incompatibility would be a compilation error.

Less dangerous than different behavior.

Ashok: Introduce a new function and deprecate global clocking?

Tom: Especially since the "global" clock is no longer global.

Dmitry: That would introduce too many changes to LRM.

Jacob: Will keep current proposal and add a note to proposal highlighting

the incompatibility.

Anupam: Lots of people use global clocking.

Jacob: will remove statement prohibiting a global clocking statement inside

a program block.

Dmitry: Check whether BNF needs to change as well.

Ed and Manisha will review again.

Will call for an e-mail ballot next time.

3195: Local Variables Flow Out Issue in and/or/intersect/implies

Dmitry: Ben was the champion for this item, but he currently can't

participate.

Table discussion for now.

- Mantis status

Dmitry: Had sent out a spreadsheet, and was asking for feedback on it.

- Opens:

Manisha: Checker binding:

LRM allows a checker to be bound into a module.

This works as if module is instantiated.

However, with checker re-writing algorithm, acts as if

module is inlined.

Seems to be a conflict.

Difficult to compile: Target module may be already compiled,

it's not possible to inline the

A lot more information has to be processed when checker is

bound.

Binding Checker to instance is even more complicated.

Dmitry: Can we think of restrictions that would make this possible.

Manisha: Difficulties:

Inferring clocks for unclocked sequences.

Anupam: Also, removing sampling of

Jacob: Also new definition of global clock will be a problem

Binding Checker to instance is even more complicated.

Dmitry: Can we think of restrictions that would make this possible.

Manisha: Difficulties:

Inferring clocks for unclocked sequences.

Anupam: Also, removing sampling of on ports.

Jacob: Also new definition of global clock will be a problem.

Ed: We don't want to prevent separate compilation of the units.

What about checkers in a package?

Meeting adjourned.