[sv-ac] notes from SV-AC meeting 2007-10-09

From: John Havlicek <john.havlicek_at_.....>
Date: Tue Oct 09 2007 - 12:58:21 PDT
Hi Folks:

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

Please let me know if corrections are required.

J.H.

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Minutes of IEEE P1800 SV-AC meeting #2007-23
Written by: John Havlicek

Date:  2007-10-09
Time:  16:00 UTC (11:00 CDT) 

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

vv[xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xx] Doron Bustan (Intel)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-x] Eduard Cerny (Synopsys)     
nn[----------x-xxx---------x-x-xxx-x---x] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)
vv[xxx-xxxxxxxxx-xx-xxxxx-xxx-xxx-------] Yaniv Fais (Freescale)
tt[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] John Havlicek (Freescale - Chair)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxrxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxx] Dmitry Korchemny (Intel - Co-Chair)
vv[xxx-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[xxxxxxx..............................] Johan Martensson (Jasper)
nn[---------------x--x-xx--xx-xxxxxxx-x-] Hillel Miller (Freescale)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx] Lisa Piper (Cadence)
vv[x-xxxxxxx-x-xxxxx-x..................] Erik Seligman (Intel)
nn[--x--------xxxx-----xxxx-xx----------] Tej Singh (Mentor Graphics)
vv[xxx--xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Bassam Tabbara (Synopsys)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx...............] Tom Thatcher (Sun Microsystems)
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Agenda:
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- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.
- Review new schedule from P1800 WG.
- 1682:  Future value functions [DK]
  . ? Ready for vote.
- Votes on minor changes to recently approved proposals, possbly by voice:
  . 1466: Aligned to Draft4, confirmed that all feedback has been addressed
    or withdrawn.
  . 1668: Aligned a few Annex F changes with 1549, fixed typo (unclocked -->
    clocked for U grammar), changed itemize symbols from bullets to dashes.
    Aligned with Draft4.
  . 1722: Aligned to Draft4, confirmed that all friendly amendments have been
    addressed.  What about the comments from Shalom regarding hierarchical 
    references?
- How to limit scope?

General working items:
- 1757:  accept_on, reject_on [EC]
- 1756:  Control of assertions in initial blocks [EC]
- 1900:  Checkers [ES]
- 1758:  Boolean operators ->, <-> [EC]
- 1549:  Argument passing [DB, LP, JH]
- 1932:  LTL operators [DK, DB]
- 2005:  Glitches with immediate assertions [ES]
- 1995:  Assertions and checkers in for loops [ES]
- 1758 concern from Shalom Bresticker regarding description of operator
  precedence.  Feedback from the champions.
  . Next steps for 1601
  . Next steps for 1648
  . Next steps for 1729


Notes:
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- Reminder of IEEE patent policy.
- Review new schedule from P1800 WG.
- Draft 4 Review
  . 1674. 
  . JH:  will enter a mantis item to fix 1674 in case 1648 does not
    pass.  This needs to be on our 2007-11-12 list.
- 1682:  Future value functions [DK]
  . JH needs to send the final ballot results.  Also include the 
    friendly amendments.
  . DK has revised the proposal.
  . TT will send a mail with the results of his review.
- Votes on minor changes to recently approved proposals, possbly by voice:
  . 1466: Aligned to Draft4, confirmed that all feedback has been addressed
    or withdrawn.
    * JH will call for an e-mail vote.
  . 1668: Aligned a few Annex F changes with 1549, fixed typo (unclocked -->
    clocked for U grammar), changed itemize symbols from bullets to dashes.
    Aligned with Draft4.
    * JH will call for an e-mail vote.
  . 1722: Aligned to Draft4, confirmed that all friendly amendments have been
    addressed.  What about the comments from Shalom regarding hierarchical 
    references?
    * The 1722 changes do not hold any text that is needed for BC to 
      go ahead.
    * JH:  SV-AC have no objection to BC fixing this.
    * JH will call for an e-mail vote.

- How to limit scope and be more efficient.?
  . put two major items in top priority slots.
    1549, 1932
  . The rest the items will cycle and we will discpline ourselves
    to reduce the cycle time.  ES will be "sergeant at arms" to help
    us maintain this discipline.
    

General working items:
- 1641:  Severity for general error messages [MK]
  . Move assertion severity system tasks general.
  . DK had feedback on "Verilog" $display.  Statement about "something
    must be true".
  . LP in 1361 we are saying that action blocks are controlled by
    system task.
  . Manisha will revise, then we will vote.
- 1757:  accept_on, reject_on [EC]
  . YF:  I don't see a need for asynchronous.
  . JM:  PSL introduced new syntax for synchronous and asynchronous.
  . JH:  Anyone who wants to drive the synchronous versions can.
  . DK:  Can YF enter a Mantis item for synchronous versions?
  . YF:  Yes.
  . JH will call for an e-mail vote.
- 1756:  Control of assertions in initial blocks [EC]
  . EC will check alignment with D4.
  . BT will work with EC to try to make the description more concise.
    BT and/or EC will send the result of this to the reflector.
  . JH will wait to see the result before calling for a vote.
- 1900:  Checkers [DK/ES]
  . DK has addressed many of the feedback items.  Began implementing
    the items from the face-to-face.  One is access to internal checker
    items.
  . TT:  We want outputs to be able to construct hierarchical checkers.
    Outputs seem to be a good way to do this.
  . DK:  We need continuous assignments with output arguments.
  . DK:  We will need help with VPI content from BT.
  . DK:  Does everyone agree that no requirements will be imposed
    on the simulator to support non-deterministic freevars?
  . DK:  Mantis item 2088 to add covergroups to checkers will require 
    cooperation with SV-CC.
  . TT:  Mantis item 2089 is to add assertions to final blocks.

- 1758:  Boolean operators ->, <-> [EC]
  . Already aligned with draft4.
  . Concern from Shalom Bresticker regarding description of operator
    precedence.  Feedback from the champions.
  . JH will call for e-mail vote.

LP:  Next time we need to review the list of Mantis items to opened
based on our face-to-face.

We did not get to these items:

- 1549:  Argument passing [DB, LP, JH]
- 1932:  LTL operators [DK, DB]
- 2005:  Glitches with immediate assertions [ES]
- 1995:  Assertions and checkers in for loops [ES]
  . Next steps for 1601
  . Next steps for 1648
  . Next steps for 1729


Next meeting: 
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