Date: 2011-07-19

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

Duration: 1.5 hours

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Meeting ID: 38198

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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:

Issues 2476 and 3113 passed: 10y/0n/0a.

Issue 3015 passed with friendly amendments: 10y/0n/0a.

- Champions Feedback

3135: Verbal explanation of nexttime and always is misleading for multiple clocks. (Dana)

Friendly Amendment: Font Problem

- New issues

3672: hierarchical access to named block in assertion action blocks

- Issue resolution/discussion

3033: Allow procedural control statements is checkers

- Enhancement progress update

3206: Deferred assertions are sensitive to glitches

- Opens

Attendance Record:

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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[x--xxx---xxxx-xxx-xxx...........................] Ashok Bhatt (Cadence)

v[xxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxx-x-xxxxx--xxx] Laurence Bisht

(Intel)

v[xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-] Eduard Cerny

(Synopsys)

v[xxxxxxxx--------xx---xxx--x-xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx] Ben Cohen (Accellera)

n[-----------------------------xx-x-xxx-x--xxxxxxx] Surrendra Dudani

(Synopsys)

v[x-xxxxxx........................................] Shaun Feng

(Freescale)

v[--x-x--x-x-xxxx-x-x----x-x-x--xx---xxxx---x-xxxx] Dana Fisman

(Synopsys)

n[---------------------------xxxxx-xxxx-x-xxxxxxxx] John Havlicek

(Freescale)

v[-x-xxx-xx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx] Tapan Kapoor

(Cadence)

v[-xx-xxxxx-xxxx-x-x..............................] Jacob Katz (Intel)

t[xx--xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Dmitry Korchemny (Intel ¿ Chair)

v[xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--xxxxxx-xxxxxxxx] Scott Little

(Freescale)

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

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

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

v[xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-x-xxx-xxxx-xxxx--xxxxxx-xxxxxxx.] Samik Sengupta

(Synopsys)

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

n[------------xx---xx-------x.....................] Srini Venkataramanan (CVC Pvt Ltd)

n[--x.............................................] Vibarajan Viswanathan (Marvell)

|- attendance on 2011-07-12

|--- voting eligibility on 2011-07-12

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: 9y, 0n, 0a

- Email ballot results:

Issues 2476 and 3113 passed: 10y/0n/0a.

Issue 3015 passed with friendly amendments: 10y/0n/0a.

(Manisha joined)

Erik: Dmitry asked whether Shalom's comment was addressed in this

proposal. Erik did add a sentence specifying where these functions

may be called.

Dmitry: What about different types of constant and non-constant values.

Suggest that these new functions may be used anywhere pure functions

are used.

Erik: Looking for comparable example in LRM. Most functions, the LRM

doesn't say where they can or can't be used.

Dmitry: In 20.5 the text says that "this function may be used in constant

expressions. Think text for this proposal should be the same.

Tom: Suggest . . ., including constant functions

Erik: Will make that change, and will voice vote later in the meeting.

3015: A proposal was uploaded to address the friendly amendments

Tom: Looks good to me.

Tom: Move to approve proposal

Erik: Second

Vote results: 10y, 0n, 0a

Back to 2476: Erik uploaded the modified proposal

Erik: Move to approve

Scott: Second

Vote results: 10y, 0n, 0a

- New issues

3672: Hierarchical access to named block in assertion action blocks

Ed: It's not specified what the access path to variables declared in

the action block.

Should the hierarchical path include the assertion label?

Should it include the block label?

Dmitry: It should be consistent with immediate assertions

Ed But what is th the access path for immediate assertions?

Dmitry: Think that immediate is equivalent to "if" An "if" statement

doesn't create a block hierarchy, so hierarchy shouldn't include

assertion label.

Ed: Shouldn't assertion label be part of the access path to variable?

Dmitry: Example

cover property (. . . ) begin : cnt_blk logic cnt; cnt = cnt +1; end

does this count

Ed: Don't think so. Locally defined variable is created each time.

Manisha: Assertion action block is a statement. If you create a block,

it seems that it would be a static block.

Ed: What is the access path to variable?

Manisha: When you use %m in $error in an action block, it will print the

path to the action block including the assertion label.

Section 16.3:

"The optional statement label (identifier and colon) creates a named

block around the assertion statement (or any other statement) and the

hierarchical name of the scope can be displayed using the %m format

specification."

- Champions Feedback

3135: Verbal explanation of nexttime and always is misleading for multiple

clocks. (Dana)

Friendly Amendment: Font Problem

Erik: Able to open proposal. Will fix the font problems.

- Issue resolution/discussion

3033: Allow procedural control statements in checkers

Dmitry: Addressed comments from last time.

Changed examples from "always" to "always_ff"

Added tasks in checkers.

Suggest review of proposal

Tom, Manisha will review it.

Meeting adjourned