[P1800] IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog 2 June 2005 Unapproved Meeting Minutes

From: Brophy, Dennis <dennisb_at_.....>
Date: Mon Jun 06 2005 - 09:27:09 PDT
IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group

UNAPPROVED MINUTES

2 June 2005

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PDT

Teleconference

 


1                    CALL TO ORDER


 

Chair Srouji called the meeting to order 8:20 am.  Attendance is shown
below.

 

Key:

DR= Designated Representative

 

 

 

 

DRA= Designated Representative Alternate

 

 

 

 

O=Observer

 

 

 

 

 

S=Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Present

Entity Name

Representative
Name

Representative
Designation

IEEE-SA
Member

Voting Member

X

Intel

Yossi Levy

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Accellera

Karen Pieper

DR

Yes

Yes

 

Bluespec

Rishiyur Nikhil

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Cadence Design Systems

Victor Berman

DR

Yes

Yes

X

 

Charles Dawson

DRA

 

 

X

IBM

Johny Srouji

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Mentor Graphics

Dennis Brophy

DR

Yes

Yes

X

 

Tom Fitzpatrick

DRA

 

 

X

Sun Microsystems

Neil Korpusik

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Sunburst Design

Cliff Cummings

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Sutherland HDL

Stu Sutherland

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Synopsys

Oz Levia

DR

Yes

Yes

X

 

Mehidi Mohtasehemi

DRA

 

 

X

Fintronic USA

Alec Stanculescu

DR

Yes

Yes

 

Observers

 

 

 

 

X

Freescale

Shalom Bresticker

 

 

 

 

Staff

 

 

 

 

X

IEEE-SA

Noelle Humenick

 

 

 

 

 

Download Roster
<http://www.eda-twiki.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2005/June/Roster.pdf> 

 

 

2                    APPROVE AGENDA

 

 

A motion (Victor Berman, Oz Levia) was made to approve the agenda.  The
motion passed unanimously.

 

 

3          CALL FOR PATENTS

 

Secretary Brophy read the patent slides.

 

Download Patent Slide set (PowerPoint)
<http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt> 

 

4          APPROVAL OF MINTUES

 

A motion (Victor Berman, Oz Levia) was made to approve the 19 May 2005
minutes.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

5          REVIEW, DISCUSS AND APPROVE OF BALLOT ISSUES LIST, BOTH 
SYSTEMVERILOG AND VERILOG

 

Karen reviewed the issues outstanding. 

 

Download updated issue list <http://www.eda-twiki.org/sv-champions/TBD> 

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Cliff Cummings) was made to accept the changes
in 695.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper, Johny Srouji]: Contact Wolfgang Ecker to
discuss issue 203 with him.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Oz Levia) was made change the resolution
language of 203 to the "while" language on the conclusion of a
successful conversation with Wolfgang Ecker at Infineon.  The motion
passed unanimously.

 

Karen discussed issue 240 and since the entity withdrew the negative
ballot issue, it was confirmed that it can be removed from the
spreadsheet.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Oz Levia) was made to change issue 257
resolution to the "while" language.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Stu Sutherland) was made to change issue 265
resolution to the "while" language.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Oz Levia) was made to change issue 257
resolution to the "while" language.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]: Go and check the resolution to issue
Stu-2.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]: Put some additional clarification
language in the comment from SCC 14 in line 204 of spreadsheet.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]:  Karen to add the changes in 683 to the
working group resolution for ballot issue Stu-1.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]: Non-voting entity 1 issue is a duplicate
of one entered by Stu.  Karen will update this issue to reflect it is a
duplicate for the ballot resolution spreadsheet.

 

There are 32 items as of this morning that need to be addressed and
there are some Mantis statuses that may not have been fully updated
since there are more than 60 issues that are still in the acknowledge
state.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Stu Sutherland) was made to allow one more week
of editing with deadline of editing Friday this week and Stu to complete
by next week.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

The status for P1364 with its spreadsheet of issues and resolutions was
discussed by Tom Fitzpatrick. 

 

From this discussion, it appears that the negative ballot comment from
Fintronic USA was not in the initial and update spreadsheet of issues.
Since this is a negative comment, this needs to be addressed.  The
working group discussed and addressed the issue.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Tom Fitzpatrick) was make to respond to the
Fintronic USA negative ballot issue that the committee has considered
the feedback and believes acceptance of it would reduce consensus and
therefore will not consider it.  The motion was approved. (Against:
Fintronic USA)

 

Karen looked on the AC spreadsheet in response to Stu-2 and the response
there was no change is proposed.  Karen will send this back to the AC.

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Oz Levia) was made to address issue Stu-2 and
accept the AC no action taken by responding in the ballot package with
the "while" response.  The motion was approved. (Abstentions: Sutherland
HDL & Sun Microsystems)

 

ACTION REQUEST [Johny Srouji, Noelle Humenick]: Update the schedule.

 

6          NEW BUSINESS

 

None.

 

7          NEXT MEETINGS

 

11 July 2005

Teleconference

2 pm - 4 pm PDT

 

8          MOTION TO SUSPEND

 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Oz Levia) was made to suspend the meeting to
finish the last of the review to reconvene at 2pm PDT on 9 June 2005.
The motion passed unanimously.

 
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