Approved Minutes of Sep-14-2011 SV-CC Meeting.

ATTENDEES

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xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx*xx Charles Dawson (Cadence)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*xx Chuck Berking (Cadence)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xx-xx-xxxx*xx Francoise Martinolle (Cadence)
----xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx-x-xxxxx*xx Abigail Moorhouse (Mentor)
xx--x-xxxxxx---x-x-x--x-xxxxxxxx*xx Michael Rohleder (Freescale)
xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*xx Bassam Tabbara (Synopsys)
xxxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx-x*-x Ghassan Khoory (Synopsys)
xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxx*x- Jim Vellenga (Cadence)
xxxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxx-x-xx-xxxxxxxx*-- Amit Kohli (Cadence)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx----- George Scott (Mentor)
x-xxxxxxx--------x----------------- Vitaly Yankelevich (Cadence)
xxxxx-xx------xx------------------- Arnab Saha (Mentor)
xxxxxxxx--------------------------- Arturo Salz (Synopsys)
-xx--------x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x--*xx Steve Dovich (Cadence)

----x------------------------------ Rohit Jain (Mentor) 
--------------------------x--x-x*xx Ying-Tsai Chang (Springsoft)
-------------------x------------*-- Doug Warmke (Mentor)
-----------------x----------------- Jay Lawrence (Cadence)
-------x--------------------------- Rob Slater (Freescale)

1. Reviewed Patent information

- Chas reviewed the patent information which can be found at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

2. Approval of agenda

Chuck/George. ACCEPTED

3. Review minutes from last meeting (Aug-31-2011)

Chuck/Jim. ACCEPTED

4. Liaisons

• Chas reported that the SV-CC has until Nov-18 to add changes that go with proposals from the other committees.
  • We have to have our own proposals done by the next meeting.
• Francoise reported that there is a Champions email vote going on for previously approved mantis items.
• No other meetings to report.

5. Consent Agenda

6. Expedited Agenda Items

7. New business

• Item 3192
  • There are a number of issues here, but given our time constraints, Chuck would like to just fix the obvious errors.
  • Chas will put it onto the Items with Proposals agenda for next meeting.
• Item 3087
  • Using DPI-C to pass SV accessors. We could have an alternative representation to allow using either proxy class or using SV accessors.
  • Long discussion on how to make DPI-OO compatible with DPI-C.
  • Three possible solutions:
    • Vitaly's pragma idea
    • Francoise's compiler directive idea
    • Arnab's container idea
  • Arturo agreed to write up the 3 different concepts
  • Arnab and George will work on writing a proposal for the container idea
  • Vitaly will make a proposal based on the compiler directives
  • Arnab asked if the discussion on pragmas was still ongoing
    • Vitaly offered to remove the pragmas section, if it would make it easier to pass the proposal
    • There was discussion on what to do if it was not there
      • Bassam does not understand what we can do without it
      • It is essential functionality, so we need an alternative
    • Straw poll: Who would prefer it was not in the proposal
      • Arnab, Arturo and Bassam would prefer it was not there
      • Arturo would like to see it as new functionality instead, parse the C++ header files instead
      • Vitaly will send email describing what functionality would be missing if it were removed
  • Francoise asked everyone to review in detail the proposal for next meeting
  • Chas needs to make sure Arturo in on the mailing list
• No other new business

8. Review SV-CC items with proposals:

• Item 3737
  • Francoise made a friendly amendment to change:
    • An empty range shall also be used to represent the ranges for each dimension of an associative array (see 37.17 <ref> detail 4) and any typespec of a dynamic array, queue, or associative array
  • to
    • A range of a typespec for a dynamic array, associative array, or queue is an empty range. An empty range shall be used to represent the ranges for each dimension of an associative array (see 37.17 <ref> detail 4).
  • Chuck will fix it for next time.

Motion to Adjourn. Chuck/Vitaly. Meeting ended at 1:40pm EST.

9. Review SV-CC items with proposals (Straw poll only):

10. Review old business:

11. Action items

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12. Items for consideration at the next meeting (they already have proposals):

13. Next meeting

The next SV-CC meeting will be on Sep-28-2011.

The next P1800 meeting will be on Oct-27-2011.

-- ChasDawson - 2011-09-14