The 9 November 2006 approved meetings minutes for the IEEE P1800 Working Group are below. -Dennis ________________________________ IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group APPROVED MINUTES 9 November 2006 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PST Teleconference 1 Call to order - Introductions & Affiliations The meeting was called to order at 8:08 a.m. PST. Members Present: Dennis Brophy (Mentor Graphics DR) Karen Pieper (Accellera DR) Alec Stanculescu (Fintronic USA, DR) Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL, DR) Swami Venkat (Synopsys DR) Rishiyur Nikhil (Bluespec DR) Victor Berman (Cadence DR) Tom Fitzpatrick (Mentor Graphics DRA) Yossi Levy (Intel, DR) Logie Ramachandran (Synopsys DRA) Neil Korpusik (Sun DR) 2 Approve agenda A motion (Victor Berman, Rishiyur Nikhil) was made to approve the agenda. The motion passed unanimously. 3 Call for Patents Chair Pieper read the patent slides. See: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt 4 Approval of September 21, 2006 Meeting Minutes A motion (Victor Berman, Tom Fitzpatrick) was made to approve the September 21, 2006 meeting minutes as amended to change Neil's spelling of his last name. The motion passed unanimously. 5 Officers nomination and election update Chair Pieper updated the group on the election results. They had been reported to the reflector earlier. A motion (Dennis Brophy, Victor Berman) was made to recommend to the IEEE-SA a meritorious service award for Johny Srouji and Shrenik Metha in their chair and vice-chair roles. The motion passed unanimously. 6 Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update a. Technical Editing - Result of the bidding process The bid for technical editing was completed and the two bids were similar with one editor able to begin now and the other later. Karen selected the bid from the editor that can start now A motion (Victor Berman, Dennis Brophy) was made to affirm Karen's selection of Stu Sutherland as project editor. b. IEEE Funded Services The funded services were reviewed. A copy of this will be sent to each DR separately for their record. A motion (Victor Berman, Dennis Brophy) was made to approve the funded services budged. The motion passed unanimously. c. Assessing fees The prior assessment scheme of using Accellera to invoice the IEEE was discussed. The alternative route was to have the IEEE invoice the companies directly. There was no objection to using Accellera as the invoicing agent. Chair Pieper discussed the schedule. The rough schedule is: 1/15/07 draft with currently passed items non-merged. 3/15/07 first draft of merged item. 4/15/07 comments due on first merged draft. 4/30/07 draft for first IEEE editorial review. 7/1/07 close for internal changes. 7/15/07 intermediate draft ready 8/1/07 last day for enhancements 9/15/07 last changes due 10/1/07 final revision ready for ballot and second editorial review 7 Review Champions issues list http://www.eda-stds.org/sv/sv-champions/Resolved-2006/Resolved_06_10_26. xls A motion (Dennis Brophy, Stu Sutherland) was made to accept the SV-BC's 1323 resolution. The motion passed unanimously. A motion (Dennis Brophy, Victor Berman) was made to accept 1557. The motion passed unanimously. A motion (Dennis Brophy, Victor Berman) was made to accept all other proposed changes. The motion passed unanimously. 8 P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update a. SV-AC, SV-BC, SV-EC, and SV-CC status b. Champions Chair c. V-AMS recommendations d. Cross language interfacing See http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2006/November/P1800_06_ 11_9.pdf for the status on what the committees are doing. A motion (Dennis Brophy, Victor Berman) was made elect Neil Korpusik the chair of the champions committee. The motion passed unanimously. A motion (Stu Sutherland, Swami Venkat) was made to approve the formation of the SV-XC with the recommended chair and co-chair. The motion passed unanimously. Action Request [Neil Korpusik]: Report back on the SV-XC schedule and scope for their project plan. A motion (Stu Sutherland, Swami Venkat) was made to recommend that SV-AMS be a dot standard of 1800 and have representation on the SV-XC cross committee. The motion passed unanimously. Adding members to mantis who are not actively on the committees was discussed. Suggest that companies share their passwords with other employees in their company Action Request [Karen Pieper, Neil Korpusik]: Look into upgrading to a new version of mantis and possibly using Kavi site to do this. 9 Next meeting 1/4 8 a.m. telecom 2/20 10 a.m. face-to-face Location TBD 4/5 8 a.m. telecom 10 Adjournment A motion (Dennis Brophy, Victor Berman) was made to adjourn with no other agenda items 9:40 a.m. PST. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Jan 4 08:35:28 2007
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