Last meeting minutes for review and approval this morning. -Dennis ________________________________ IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group UNAPPROVED MINUTES 24 May 2007 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. PDT Teleconference 1 CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS The meeting was called to order at 8:06 a.m. PDT. Member DRs/DRAs Present: Dennis Brophy (Mentor Graphics, DR) Mehdi Mohtashemi (Synopsys, DR) Yossi Levy (Intel, DR) Charles Dawson (Cadence, DR) Neil Korpusik (Sun Microsystems, DR) Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR) Member DRAs Present: None. Observers: Cliff Cummings (Sunburst Design, Observer) Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL, Observer) (Participated for discussion of agenda item 9) Shalom Bresticker (Intel, Observer) 2 APPROVE AGENDA A motion (Dennis Brophy, Yossi Levi) 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 Chair Pieper asked that all have heard, read and understood the policy. All have read and understand the slides. 4 APPROVAL OF 4 APRIL 2007 MEETING MINUTES A motion (Dennis Brophy, Charles Dawson) was made to approve the 4 April 2007 meeting minutes amended to reflect the two comments from Neil Korpusik. The motion passed unanimously. 5 FUNDING, BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL UPDATE ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]: Check on payments to IEEE and collection of funds to Accellera. 6 EDITING UPDATE Stu completed the merging of the documents at the beginning of May. An IEEE mandatory editorial review was completed and a 4-page review was returned. JEITA has reviewed the document and mailed a spreadsheet with several issues they found. Several issues are editorial and others need committee attention. Chair Pieper instructed Neil to have the committees review the other issues and Stu to handle the editorial comments. Yossi discussed what we are doing to handle other outstanding comments from the last ballot so they do not needlessly surface again. ACTION REQUEST [Karen Pieper]: Karen will go through the Mantis items from the last ballot and send to Neil the ones which the committees should review. 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. 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 July 12, 2007 Teleconference 8am August 1, 2007 Freeze for the SV* committees for the October draft August 15, 2007 Champions meeting August 30, 2007 Teleconference 8am 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 21, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot February 22, 2008 Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review February 30, 2008 Champions meeting March 15, 2008 P1800 approval due March 22, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete March 23, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot March 30, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed Ballot draft available Balloting begins April 30, 2008 Ballot closes 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/May/committees052407.p df Neil Korpusik presented a slide presentation on the status of the technical committees and operating guidelines and procedures update. The presentation is included by reference as part of the meeting minutes. Updated Guidelines: http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2007/May/OpGuidelines_05_07 .pdf. A motion was made (Charles Dawson, Neil Korpusik) was made to accept the changes presented. The motion passed unanimously. ACTION REQUEST [Neil Korpusik]: Neil will inform the committees that the voting rules have changed. Mantis has had several updates since we first put it on eda.org. Dave Rich is bringing the newest version of Mantis online. It is more customizable and we can now leave issues with a committee even when it moves to and editor. You can do this without bumping it back and forth. This is nice since the technical chair does not need to bump the items back and forth. a. Committee operation and voting procedure update b. SV-AC, SV-BC, SV-EC, SV-CC and SV-XC 9 Discuss Release of the P1800 draft for sale by the IEEE It was discussed that Stu would create Draft 3a that would have the crossed out text removed. It will have minor editing request received today. It will be made available for sale by the IEEE for non-committee participants. A motion (Dennis Brophy, Mehdi Mohtashemi) that Draft 3a be made available to the IEEE for publication and Stu will remove crossed out text and make minor editing in this draft. The motion passed unanimously. 10 NEW BUSINESS There was no new business. 11 NEXT MEETING (ANNOUNCE DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION, IF KNOWN) 7/12 Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT 8/30 Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT 11 ADJOURNMENT A motion (Dennis Brophy) was made to adjourn the meeting. Having concluded all the agenda items, the chair called the meeting closed at 9:28 am PDT. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Jul 12 06:31:18 2007
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