[P1800] 4-April-2007 UNAPPROVED Partial Meeting Minutes

From: Brophy, Dennis <dennisb_at_.....>
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 10:09:07 PDT
The minutes will be completed after the conclusion of the meeting when
it resumes on 24 April 2007. If you have any changes or additions to
make, please let me know. Karen has updates to the dates that are shown
here. I'll make those changes when I get them from her.

-Dennis 
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IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group

UNAPPROVED MINUTES

4 April 2007

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

Teleconference

 


1          CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS

The meeting was called to order at 8:06 a.m. PST.

 

Member DRs Present: 

Dennis Brophy (Mentor Graphics, DR) 

Swami Venkat (Synopsys, DR)

Matt Maidment (Intel, DR)

Charles Dawson (Cadence, DR)

Neil Korpusik (Sun Microsystems, DR)

Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR)

 

Member DRAs Present:

Dave Rich (Mentor Graphics, DRA)

 

Observers:

Cliff Cummings (Sunburst Design, Observer)

Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL, Observer)

Shalom Bresticker (Intel, Observer)


2          APPROVE AGENDA

A motion (Dennis Brophy, Neil Korpusik) 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 20 FEBRUARY 2007 MEETING MINUTES

A motion (Charles Dawson, Neil Korpusik) was made to approve the 20
February 2007 meeting minutes.  The motion passed unanimously.


5          FUNDING, BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL UPDATE

a)  IEEE services contract has come.  There was agreement and it was
exactly the expenditures we contracted.  The IEEE will soon invoice
Accellera for the committee for the participation fee and first
installment of other services.

 

6          EDITING UPDATE

Preliminary merged draft was delivered 4 weeks ago.  Most of the
committees were able to review it.  We were going to determine if we
should continue to merge or go back to two documents.  There were
numerous small things not done, but they will be done once the go/no-go
decision is made.  This would be the draft that would be made available
to the general public.

 

The feedback was initially requested to ensure the editor had taken the
text from all the correct clauses.  However, feedback has come in on
real missing text that needs to be in place to ensure the reading of the
standard is correct.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]: Karen will contact the IEEE to determine
the last date we need to get the PDF to the IEEE for publication of the
first merged draft specification.

 

ACTION REQUEST [Neil Korpusik]: Neil will get approval from the EC, AC
and BC to work on the merged draft rather than on the two separate
documents.

 

The CC committee has already voted to continue work on the merged
document rather than the two.  

 

We stay on the merged course.  And we will discuss more details on this
when the meeting reconvenes.  

 

7          SCHEDULE STATUS UPDATE

The following schedule was discussed and is the operation plan for the
working group.  Dates will be updated from information that Karen will
supply based on discussion to suspend meeting.

 

Added dates for IEEE Review, press releases, voting procedural issues 

 

March 15, 2007           First draft of merged document available

April 5, 2007               P1800 Meeting teleconference 8am pacific - 

 

Discuss and approve ongoing changes not the merge 

 

April 15, 2007             Comments on the merged document due 

May 4, 2007                Internal draft of the merged document 

 

Proposed IEEE submission for first paid review 

 

May 24, 2007              P1800 meeting teleconference 8am pacific 

to approve official release of merged document 

May 7, 2007                Contact IEEE 3 weeks prior to press release 

May 21, 2007              Date for completion of IEEE review 

June, 2007                   Official release of the merged document 

June, 2007                   Press release on the merged document

August 1, 2007           Freeze for the SV* committees for the October
draft

August 15, 2007         Champions meeting

September 1, 2007      P1800 approvals for the October draft due

October 1, 2007          Intermediate draft 

 

Proposed IEEE submission for second paid review 

 

November 1, 2007      Date for completion of IEEE review 

 

November 15, 2007    Feature freeze in the SV* committees

November 30, 2007    Champions meeting to approve final features 

December 15, 2007     Feature freeze in the P1800

 

January 15, 2008         Pre-ballot draft available 

 

Proposed IEEE submission for third paid review 

 

January 20, 2008         Remind entities to become members 

 

February 7, 2008         Date for completion of IEEE review 

February 15, 2008       Last editing requests filed in svdb 

February 28, 2008       Open the invitation to ballot

February 30, 2008       Champions meeting 

 

March 1, 2008             Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review 

 

March 15, 2008           P1800 approval due

March 30, 2008           Ballot draft 

****                    Need time for addition of edits from IEEE review

May 15, 2008              Ballot responses available

June 15, 2008              Committees respond to ballot responses

June 30, 2008              Champions meeting

July 15, 2008               P1800 approval

July 30, 2008               Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for
1800-2005)

August 15, 2008         Recirculation results back 

September 30, 2008    Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA
Approval 

November 30, 2008    Initiate press release to announce Publication
available 


8          P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update
See
http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2007/April/committees040507
.pdf

 

All updates in the presentation are since the last P1800 face-to-face
meeting.  For the SV-AC, 5 Mantis items were resolved.  And several
Mantis items are spilling over into other committees.  This is creating
the need for more cross committee collaboration and coordination.

 

In the case of SV-AC, the question was asked if we should give them
feedback on the enhancements they are contemplating.  Neil said there
seems to be a rather large number of enhancements that are being made
and the motivation for them is not really provided.  We should ask the
SV-AC to provide impact statements for each of the Mantis items that are
enhancements.

 

In addition to that documented in the presentation above, the SV-CC
spent time on Mantis item 890 and the merged document as well.  The
SV-CC is working on some large issues, like compatibility issues.  They
have had two meetings and addressed several Mantis issues since the last
face-to-face P1800 WG meeting.

 

In order to address Mantis item 890 quickly, the working group did not
object to having Karen and Neil direct them to move at a double rate.
This would allow us to suspend this meeting and resume again on 24 April
2007 to approve the results of this work.

 

8.5       CO-CHAIR OF THE CHAMPIONS COMMITTEE

Tom Fitzpatrick has been inactive as the champions' committee chair and
has suggest Neil appoint a new co-chair.

 

A motion (Neil Korpusik, Charles Dawson) was made to appoint Dave Rich
as co-chair of the champions committee.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

9          NEXT MEETING (ANNOUNCE DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION, IF KNOWN)

4/24     Meeting Resumption 9 a.m. PDT

5/24     Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT

6/28     Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT

8/23     Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT

 

11        ADJOURNMENT

A motion (Dennis Brophy, Neil Korpusik) was made to suspend the meeting
until 24 April 2007 at 8 a.m. PDT to permit the SV-EC time to complete
Mantis item 890 and allow for review by other committees.  The meeting
suspended at 9:44 a.m. PDT.


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