[P1800] IEEE-SVWG-Meeting Minutes-060221.doc

From: Brophy, Dennis <dennisb_at_.....>
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 14:03:01 PST
Here are the unapproved meeting minutes from our 21 February 2006
meeting. Since these notes are being written while I am unconnected from
the Internet, I have not posted some of the associated files yet. Once I
do, I will update the links highlighted in red in the body of the
meeting minutes. Also, please check the roster of participants since I
took them from a poorly written piece of paper. I believe I have
everyone, but I might have missed or included someone I should not have.

-Dennis 
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IEEE SystemVerilog Working Group

UNAPPROVED MINUTES

21 February 2006

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

Teleconference

 

1.      Call to order 

Chair Srouji called the meeting to order at 8:05 a.m. PST.

 

The roster of attendees is follows.  Those IEEE SA Corporate Members who
participate in the meeting today are recognized as voting members.

 

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

Accellera

Karen Pieper

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Bluespec

Rishyur Nikhil

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Cadence

Victor Berman

DR

Yes

Yes

X

 

Charles Dawson

DRA

 

 

X

IBM

Johny Srouji

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Intel

Yossi Levy

DR

Yes

Yes

X

 

Shalom Bresticker

 

 

 

X

Mentor Graphics

Dennis Brophy

DR

Yes

Yes

 

 

Dave Rich

DRA

 

 

X

Sun

Neil  Korpusik

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Sunburst Design

Cliff Cummings

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Sutherland HDL

Stu Sutherland

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Synopsys

Steve Smith

DR

Yes

Yes

X

Fintronic USA

Alec Stanculescu

DR

Yes

Yes

 

Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.      Approve agenda 

A motion (Karen Pieper, Victor Berman) was mad to approve the agenda.
The motion passed unanimously.

3.      Call for Patents

Chair Srouji read the required IEEE patent slides.

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

4.      Approval of 18 January 2006 meeting minutes

A motion (Victor Berman, Stuart Sutherland) was made to approve the
meeting minutes.  The motion passed unanimously.  

5.      Action Items Review and Follow-up

Chair Srouji reviewed the action items and updated their status.  See
(Link to eda.org to be furnished later.)

 

6.      Quick review / refresh of the LRM priorities which were 
discussed on 18 January, 2006

 

Karen presented the findings of the technical teams per her the action
request from the last meeting.  From this, it was understood that 3
months of work by editorial would be needed and a 3 month overhead of
the committee and technical team for a total of a 6 month amount of
time.  See (Link to eda.org to be furnished later.)

 

In terms of open bugs to address by SV-BC, there are 150 issues from the
SystemVerilog side and 243 from 1364 side.

 

Stu gave a presentation on the merging of the two documents.  He had
requested John Cooley to get information back from ESNUG on the merging
or non-merging of the documents.  There were 95 respondents to his
question and those came from about approximately 70 different companies.
The presentation can be downloaded.  (Link to eda.org to be furnished
later.)

 

80% of the SV-BC says we should to the merge and from the outside 90%
say we should do the merge.

 

We may need a parallel path. If so, there will be a conflict of
resources when the technical resources need to be brought to bear on the
merge of the documents and technical issue resolution would be
subordinate to them.  

 

Yossi altered his position. His merge concerns are: (1) The work of the
technical editor must be given some deadlines to ensure this is their
work focus and (2) Karen within 2 months, must say if she wants to use
the merged version or go with the previous two versions.  Should the
errata fixes be based on the merged documents or should we use the
un-merged version?  After the editor has done the initial merging and
the committee has had time to look at it.  There should be a time to
take a checkpoint.  At the checkpoint, we need to determine if we are on
track.  If we are on schedule, we stay with the merged one.  

 

A motion (Stu Sutherland, Victor Berman) was made that the working group
contract with an editor to merge the two documents into one as soon as
possible.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

The cost and funding model proposals need to come back to the group.  





7.      Review survey results from technical committees and community




Karen's review was reported in her prior report.  A presentation from
Stu was also reported out as well.



8.      Update on Study Group & PAR


Confirmation from Chuck Adams was given that a Study Group has been
formed.  

 

9.      New business



None.

10.  Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)



3 April 2006 8 - 10.

Teleconference

11.  Adjournment

No further business before the working group, the meeting adjourned at
10:51 a.m. PST.

 

 

 

 
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