[sv-ac] notes from SV-AC meeting 2007-04-17

From: John Havlicek <john.havlicek_at_.....>
Date: Tue Apr 17 2007 - 11:35:42 PDT
All:

Attached are my notes from today's meeting.

Please let me know if changes are required.

J.H.

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Minutes of IEEE P1800 SV-AC meeting #2007-08
Written by: John Havlicek

Date:  2007-04-17
Time:  16:00 UTC (11:00 CDT) 

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		n = not a valid voter
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New PAR, attendance re-initialized on 2006-08-22:

vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xx] Doron Bustan (Freescale)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x] Eduard Cerny (Synopsys)	
nn[---------x-x-xxx-x---x] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)
vv[x-xxxxx-xxx-xxx-------] Yaniv Fais (Freescale)
tt[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] John Havlicek (Freescale - Chair)
vv[xxxxrxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx] Dmitry Korchemny (Intel - Co-Chair)
vv[xxxxx----------xx-xxxx] Manisha Kulshrestha (Mentor Graphics)
nn[---xxxxx-------x-xx-x-] Jiang Long (Mentor Graphics)
nn[x.....................] Joseph Lu
nn[x--x-xx--xx-xxxxxxx-x-] Hillel Miller (Freescale)
vv[xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx] Lisa Piper (Cadence)
vv[xx-x..................] Erik Seligman (Intel)
nn[-----xxxx-xx----------] Tej Singh (Mentor Graphics)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Bassam Tabbara (Synopsys)
vv[xxxxxxx...............] Tom Thatcher (Sun Microsystems)
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|------------------------- new voting eligibility


Agenda:
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- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.
- Merged LRM review and vote on support of the merge effort.
  . Volunteers to look through the assertion sections?
  . Schedule an e-mail vote on support.
- 1731:  Sampled value functions with arbitrary clocks [EC]
  . JH, MK, DB will review.  
  . JH, DB asked for changes to formal semantics and more explanation
    in Section 17.
- 1599:  API and VPI changes for 0805 [BT]
  . Ready to move to SV-CC?
  . Do we need to vote to move it?
- 1734:  Incomplete fix to Annex E in 0805 [JH]  
  . DB reviewer.
  . Looks ready to vote.
- 1641:  Severity specification for error msgs [MK]
  . LP, BT reviewers.
- 1668:  Local var initializers [JH]
  . EC, DK reviewers.
- 1648:  Default disable [EC]
  . TT reviewer.
  . Have the inference rules settled?
  . Ready to vote?
- 1737:  Incomplete fixes from 1381 [EC]
  . Voice vote to tidy up.
- 1361:  Control exec of action blocks [MK]
  . Ready to vote?
- 1466:  Shortcuts for ## and * [LP]
  . Failed e-mail ballot.
  . What next?
- 1728:  Let [EC], motion.  
  . Failed e-mail ballot.
  . Extensive feedback from MK.
- 1674:  Context value functions [EC]
  . YF reviewer
  . Dependencies on 1648 sorted out?
  . Ready to vote?
- 1681:  Global clocking [EC] 
  . DB reviewer.
  . Status?
- 1682:  Future value functions [EC]
  . DB reviewer.
  . Status?
- 1729:  Immediate assume, cover [EC]
  . LP reviewer.
  . Status?
- 1730:  Literal sequence and property arguments [EC]
  . DB reviewer.
  . Ready to vote?


Notes:
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- Discussed the webpage.  Erik will send out url, but not the password.
- Merged LRM review and vote on support of the merge effort.
  . Volunteers to look through the assertion sections?
  . Voice vote on SV-AC support of the merge.  Valid voters 
    TT,ES,LP,MK,DK,YF,EC voted in favor.  There were no negative votes, 
    no abstentions.  Valid voters DB,BT had not yet joined the meeting 
    when the vote was taken.
- 1731:  Sampled value functions with arbitrary clocks [EC]
  . JH, MK, DB will review.  
  . JH, DB asked for changes to formal semantics and more explanation
    in Section 17.
  . EC needs to review the changes suggested to Annex E and address 
    the request for more explanation in Section 17.
- 1599:  API and VPI changes for 0805 [BT]
  . Old issues from meeting 2007-03-20:
     . LP and JH raised some concern about how an attempt that
       starts and is subsequently killed is accounted for in the 
       various callbacks.
     . BT will review and see about adding PI calls for killed.
  . BT to give us updated status on these issues.
  . MK:  In the formula we want "disable" to change "disabled evaluation"
    to align with name of the call.
- 1734:  Incomplete fix to Annex E in 0805 [JH]  
  . DB reviewer.
  . Looks ready to vote.
  . JH to call an e-mail vote on this.
- 1641:  Severity specification for error msgs [MK]
  . LP, BT reviewers.
  . DK:  Need to move this to SV-BC.
  . JH to call an e-mail vote on the proposal, then move to SV-BC.
- 1668:  Local var initializers [JH]
  . EC, DK reviewers.
  . JL:  Also the problem of local variables in event expression.
  . JH needs to send more email about the issues to be discussed.
- 1648:  Default disable [EC]
  . TT reviewer.
  . Have the inference rules settled?
  . TT:  The inference of a disable from an always block has been 
    removed.
  . JH to call an e-mail vote on this.
- 1737:  Incomplete fixes from 1381 [EC]
  . There was hesitation about calling a voice vote.
  . JH to call an e-mail vote on this.
- 1361:  Control exec of action blocks [MK]
  . Failed e-mail ballot.
  . MK will update the proposal to try to align with Doron's suggestion.
  . LP:  We should consider turning off reporting failures on cover.
  . JH:  The failure count on cover property is out of the scope of this
    proposal.
  . LP will make a separate proposal on the failure counters.
- 1466:  Shortcuts for ## and * [LP]
  . Failed e-mail ballot.
  . What next?
  . JH:  There is not much left to compromise on.  Voice vote is 
    possible.
  . BT:  There are other parts of SV that could use this feature.
    The constraints from those contexts could influence the syntax.
  . DB:  Can you point to other places in the LRM that are relevant or
    that might be affected?
  . BT:  One could look to wherever $ is used.
  . BT to send mail about other parts of LRM that could be relevant.
    Dave Rich may be able to help.
- 1728:  Let [EC], motion.  
  . Failed e-mail ballot.
  . Extensive feedback from MK.
  . EC and DK have studied the feedback from MK, but have not had
    time to write responses or revisions.  The feedback from MK was
    clear enough.
  . Discussion needs to continue in e-mail.
- 1674:  Context value functions [EC]
  . YF reviewer
  . Dependencies on 1648 sorted out?
  . Check alignment with 1648 on removal of the inference of disable.
  . EC will update the enabling condition for a3.
  . Then YF will review again. 
  . Then JH will call for an e-mail vote.
- 1681:  Global clocking [DK] 
  . DB reviewer.
  . DK needs to revise the proposal as discussed previously.
  . DK:  "design" is mentioned in the merged LRM.  This is a global problem.
  . DB:  I need to look at merged draft2 for precedent.
  . JH:  We should try to make sure that the scope described by the use of
    "design" in 1681 is clear.
- 1682:  Future value functions [EC]
  . DB reviewer.
  . Proposal last updated on 4 April 2007.
  . DB sent comments the same day.  These still need to be taken into account.
  . EC will try to revise and contact DB if issues are encountered.
- 1729:  Immediate assume, cover [EC]
  . LP reviewer.
  . EC will revise to fix the colors.
  . JH will then call for a vote.
- 1730:  Literal sequence and property arguments [EC]
  . DB reviewer.
  . JH will call for an e-mail vote.

- JH will call the e-mail votes for 13 days to relieve the pressure
  of seven simultaneous ballots.


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