| (last updated on October 12, 2004 - Johny Srouji) | ||||||||||||||
| IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog WG Action Items - October'2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of September 14, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Submit a signed IEEE LOA or a reason explaining why the IEEE LOA cannot be signed by 1 October 2004 | All IEEE 1800 Members | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | LOA was submitted by Synopsys. Cadence and Mentor will send one. Verisity will address their specific concers to the Chair. User members are also required to submit such a form. | PENDING | |||||||||
| Work with PatCom to revise their LOA form to permit it to comply with clause 6. a. Victor to seek clarification on the need to read the IEEE Patent Slide information for clause 6 b when it does not apply in this case. Victor will report back within two days after the next PatCom meeting on the status of this | Victor Berman, Ed Rashba | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Victor contacted David Wrangle from PatCom asking to change the LOA form and discuss it in their next meeting. They suggested to have different letters from different entities. Victor asked to add a "box" to be checked for "assert". David said they won’t be able to discuss this before their next meeting in Dec. This item is still pending. Noelle will help in addressing this issue | PENDING | |||||||||
| Work with Accellera to collect the project dues. Tell Accellera exactly how much to invoice by 1 October 2004. | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Oz sent an email to Accellera and various members. He receieved a message from Accellera that it was accepted. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Check with Intel legal on signing IEEE contract on behalf of P1800 by 1 October 2004. | Johny Srouji | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Dennis, as the WG secretary, signed the contract w/ IEEE funded services | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Work with IEEE to close on contract and present it to Accellera for signing by 1 October 2004. | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Dennis, WG secretary, signed the contract w/ IEEE funding services | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Report to the SV WG on the Data Types project in 1364 and look at what changes are required in the language to allow future support of dynamic and static types and types on wires. He will also report on the main differences between Verilog and SV data types. | Victor Berman | 14-Sep-04 | 11-Oct-04 | Victor has called for the task force meeting. This update is part of our Oct'11 WG F2F meeting | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of August 9, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Follow-up on Synopsys revised letter of assurance regarding compliance w/ IEEE patents policy | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Chair received a new letter of Assurance from Synopsys following PatCom template | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Contact PatCom for advice and review of this issue and seek a format of an assurance letter that we should use | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Chair contacted PatCom and receieved proper forms | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Issue Letters of Assurance in keeping with prescribe patent policy at next | All IEEE 1800 Members | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Determine how we keep IEEE-SA confidential information for the record | Dennis Brophy | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| From sv-ec: Johnny - needs to clarify that clause a. of the IEEE patent policy applies to the work of P1800 | Johny Srouji | 1-Sep-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Work with IEEE-SA to include information in the agreement that allows us to track time/cost usage and reports on a monthly basis | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Done (message attached) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Request $60K to cover partial cost of IEEE Funded Services program and have Accellera act as administrator for the collection of all other fees | Vassilios Gerousis] | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Vassilios presented the project requirements to the Accellera board and the request as sponsor of SystemVerilog to cover about 50% of the project costs was placed in front of the Accellera board. This $60K request was approved. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Define the process to get errata moved, addressed and approved by the SV WG. A method for those who do not have access to the database needs to also be put into place. | Karen Pieper | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Errata to be considered for inclusion in the standard must be submitted to the SVDB (http://www.eda-twiki.org/svdb/) by 1 September 2004 | All IEEE 1800 Members | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| To produce a cataloged and prioritized list of errata and report this to the SV WG at it next meeting | Karen Pieper | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Identify people that could perform the role of the LRM Manager and DB tracker. Those people will be contacted to see if they would accept the role | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Pending discussion on P1800 structure and operation on 11/10/04 F2F meeting | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Identify a small ad-hoc group that would report back to the SV WG on the future alignment of 1364 with SystemVerilog. Victor will lead and Cliff, Alec and Karen along with the BTF and PTF chair and co-chairs will participate to create the report. The report will be presented to the SV WG at the October meeting. Data types issues should be filed to ensure they are addressed | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of July 1, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| If anyone knows of a patent that may be germane to the project, please inform the Chair | All IEEE 1800 Members | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Aug-04 | No patent germane to the project was submitted | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Review Synopsys patent information given to the chair from Victor Berman (Cadence DR) | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Chair received a letter form Assurance from Synopsys DR, Oz Levia (message) | CLOSED[1] | |||||||||
| Follow-up on Synopsys letter of assurance regarding compliance w/ IEEE patents policy | Johny Srouji | 26-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | in progress (message) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Determine how a tie is broken | Steve Mills | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done (message) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Make these changes to the P&Ps and get ratification of the P&Ps from the sponsors | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done (revised P&P was approved and sent to p1800 reflector) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Attach a copy of the Accellera Assignment Letter to the minutes | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Include a copy of the unapproved CAG meeting motion | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Aug-04 | Done - Sent to Johny on 8/8/04 (message). | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to work with Steve on access to the unapproved SAB meeting minutes so they can become a part of this report | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done. Draft 01 is posted at p1800 website. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to contact Accellera to have them tender the SystemVerilog 3.1a specification in approved and mandated IEEE format | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to get next WG meeting logistics (of 8/9/04) details from Oz (Synopsys DR) | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to get next WG meeting logistics (of 9/13/04) details from Wolfgang (Infineon DR) | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Email request sent to Wolfgang on 8/8. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to get next WG meeting logistics (of 10/11/04) details from Victor (Cadence DR) | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Email request sent to Victor on 8/8. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to contact JEITA SV-TC Chair, Hamaguchi-san to see if they can support a SystemVerilog Working Group meeting in Japan. | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | TBD | Email request sent to Hamaguchi-san on 8/8. Message reply attached. January 26, 2005 was proposed. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Johny to send Dennis the proposed contract from Edward to be entered as part of the working group’s record | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Go to Accellera and present the funding proposals from the IEEE for P1800 and the desire to have Accellera be the funding agent | Johny Srouji / Vassilios Gerousis | 1-Jul-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Vassilios presented the project requirements to the Accellera board and the request as sponsor of SystemVerilog to cover about 50% of the project costs was placed in front of the Accellera board. This $60K request was approved. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Get errata entered into SystemVerilog webpage located on eda.org by 15 July 2004 to help determine the funding needs | All IEEE 1800 Members | 1-Jul-04 | 15-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Initiate election of Errata Technical Sub-Working Group Chair | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 10-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||