[sv-ac] notes from SV-AC meeting 2007-09-18

From: John Havlicek <john.havlicek_at_.....>
Date: Tue Sep 18 2007 - 12:32:37 PDT
Hi Folks:

My notes from today's SV-AC meeting are attached.

Please let me know if changes are required.

J.H.


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Minutes of IEEE P1800 SV-AC meeting #2007-21
Written by: John Havlicek

Date:  2007-09-18
Time:  16:00 UTC (11:00 CDT) 

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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

New PAR, attendance re-initialized on 2006-08-22:

vv[xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xx] Doron Bustan (Intel)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x] Eduard Cerny (Synopsys)     
nn[--------x-xxx---------x-x-xxx-x---x] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)
vv[x-xxxxxxxxx-xx-xxxxx-xxx-xxx-------] Yaniv Fais (Freescale)
tt[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] John Havlicek (Freescale - Chair)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxrxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx] Dmitry Korchemny (Intel - Co-Chair)
vv[x-xxx-x--xx--xxxxx----------xx-xxxx] Manisha Kulshrestha (Mentor Graphics)
nn[----------------xxxxx-------x-xx-x-] Jiang Long (Mentor Graphics)
nn[--------x--xxx.....................] Joseph Lu (Altera)
vv[xxxxx..............................] Johan Martensson (Jasper)
nn[-------------x--x-xx--xx-xxxxxxx-x-] Hillel Miller (Freescale)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx] Lisa Piper (Cadence)
vv[xxxxxxx-x-xxxxx-x..................] Erik Seligman (Intel)
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vv[x--xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Bassam Tabbara (Synopsys)
vv[xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx...............] Tom Thatcher (Sun Microsystems)
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Agenda:
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- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.
- Face-to-face arrangements.
- Plans until feature freeze.
- Champions latest ballot.
- Results of ballot on 1681.
- 1549:  Argument passing [DB, LP, JH]
- 1932:  LTL operators [DK, DB]
- 1757:  accept_on, reject_on [EC]
- 1900:  Checkers [ES]
- 1682:  Future value functions [DK]
- 1756:  Control of assertions in initial blocks [EC]
- Feedback from the champions.
  . Next steps for 1601
  . Next steps for 1648
  . Next steps for 1729
- 1758:  Boolean operators ->, <-> [EC]
- 1995:  Assertions and checkers in for loops [ES]
- 2005:  Glitches with immediate assertions [ES]
- 1668:  Local var initializers [JH]
- 1728:  Let proposal [EC, DK]
- Other items


Notes:
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- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.
- Face-to-face arrangements.
  . JH will get phone numbers for the other valid voters.
  . DB can participate on Tuesday until 17:00-05:00.
  Topics
  . 1932 LTL.
  . 1900 checkers, related to SV-BC.
  . 1549 arguments
  . 1667 local variable arguments
  . 2005 related to SV-BC
  . Relationship between system tasks and VPI -- LP will send mail to BT 
    about this.
  . Slot for grab bag of other mantis items.
  . We may want to schedule certain times for voting, although people
    not participating would need to review updates before voting.
  . Additional suggestions should be sent by 2007-09-19 T 18:00-05:00.

- Plans until feature freeze.
  . JH will check on the deadline from P1800.
    - It is 2007-09-20, so we need to act quickly.
  . People still need to send in their priority items and effort estimates.

- Champions latest ballot.
  . JH will send JH feedback on SV-AC proposals to SV-AC.
  . JH will send Neil a mail about the 1681 results.

- Results of ballot on 1681.
  . JM suggested a rewording and will e-mail it.  DK will revise.

- 1549:  Argument passing [DB, LP, JH]
  . JH will post the current revision today.

- 1932:  LTL operators [DK, DB]
  . DB added the "implies" and "iff" in 1932.
  . TT, JM, JH, DK think s_until is good.
  . JM:  What about "until with"?
  . JM:  Question about strong sequence.  This will not be backward
    compatible.  We discussed this and thought it was worth the backward
    incompatibility.
  . JM:  How about until_with?

- 1757:  accept_on, reject_on [EC]
  . DK and DB will look at font problems and post a revised version.
    Then we should be ready to vote.
  . MK asked about the rationale for sampled conditions.  DK,EC explained
    that the semantics is cleaner, matches closer with the treatment of
    expressions in other nestable property operators, and the semantics 
    of glitch-catching by disable iff has not been carefully defined.

- 1900:  Checkers [ES]
  . DK eventually wrote almost the final version of the proposal.
    File was too big for reflector.  New version is deposited on Mantis.
    Comments were received from several people.  Not all comments have
    been addressed, but the remaining ones are not major.
  . LP and TT will re-review.

- 1682:  Future value functions [DK]
  . Feedback from JM and others was incorporated.
  . Ready for voting, but heavily dependent on Global Clocking.
  . JH will call for a vote.
  . DK does not want to delete the old versions because they show how 
    substantially the proposal has been changed.
  . BT:  there was discussion from champions about not creating many
    system task names, as opposed to arguments.  1361 also creates many
    system tasks.
    DK:  This was in response to feedback for clarity and to avoid confusion.

- EC recommends uniformizing the names of mantis items.

- 1756:  Control of assertions in initial blocks [EC]
  . YF sent feedback to reflector with questions.  MK had a question 
    about the change in semantics.
  . EC will align with Draft3a.
  . BT will send feedback to EC about the need for this capability.

- 1728:  Let proposal [EC, DK]
  . Delay for 2 days before calling for vote.

We did not get to these items.

- Feedback from the champions.
  . Next steps for 1601
  . Next steps for 1648
  . Next steps for 1729
- 1758:  Boolean operators ->, <-> [EC]
- 1995:  Assertions and checkers in for loops [ES]
- 2005:  Glitches with immediate assertions [ES]
- 1668:  Local var initializers [JH]
- Other items


Next meeting: 
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