Please forward any changes or modifications needed to the minutes to me. Regards, Dennis ________________________________ IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group UNAPPROVED MINUTES 12 July 2007 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. PDT Teleconference 1 CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS The meeting was called to order at 8:04 a.m. PDT. Member DRs/DRAs Present: Dennis Brophy (Mentor Graphics, DR) Mehdi Mohtashemi (Synopsys, DR) Yossi Levy (Intel, DR) Jim Vellenga (Cadence, DRA) Neil Korpusik (Sun Microsystems, DR) Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR) Member DRAs Present: None. Observers: Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL, Observer/Editor) Shalom Bresticker (Intel, Observer) Alex Stanculescu (Fintronic USA, Observer) 2 APPROVE AGENDA A motion (Dennis Brophy, Mehdi Mohtashemi) was made to approve the agenda. The motion passed unanimously. 3 CALL FOR PATENTS 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 EDITING UPDATE Draft 3a was made available a month ago and it is the basis for committee updates. No other editing work has been done to date. The champions will soon approve changes from the committees and then the WG will approve and Stu will then have approved items to start making changes to the draft standard. The last draft standard editing item on the schedule (see below) based on feedback from IEEE editorial review was changed in the schedule status update to reflect the time is not meant to be used to add substantial enhancements or changes from the committees. 5 APPROVAL OF 24 MAY 2007 MEETING MINUTES A motion (Dennis Brophy, Yossi Levy) was made to approve the 24 May 2007. The motion passed unanimously. 6 FUNDING, BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL UPDATE The IEEE did get the payments for the project. Dennis verified with Edward and Christine when he was at IEEE HQ a few weeks back. 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. Proposed future meetings indicated with an asterisk below * 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 *October 4, 2007 Teleconference 8am November 1, 2007 Date for completion of IEEE review *November 8, 2007 Teleconference 8am November 15, 2007 Feature freeze in the SV* committees November 30, 2007 Champions meeting to approve final features *December 13, 2007 Teleconference 8am 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/July/committees071207. pdf. There were 4 Mantis items resolved. There are elaboration issues with 1728 and therefore the "Let" construct will apply to assertions only. The number of items being entered is higher than those being resolved. We need to track this as it may be an issue since we only have 4 months to address these and other issues coming in. We may not have enough time. In SV-EC, 5 Mantis issues were approved. 1723 was the only item which was not approved unanimously. The SV-EC is currently focused on classes, stream operators and coverage. Progress is slow and the team is being encouraged to focus to close on work. Issues are taking longer to resolve. Since implementations are well in place, we have more knowledge to guide us as we address issues. For the SV-XC, they are comparing VHDL with SystemVerilog to come up with a set of guidelines to ease interoperability between the languages. They are focused on semantics, not implementation to leave implementers to best implement. The next step is to complete strong and weak typing rules. For the Champions team, there are now 93 Mantis items ready for review and approval. There will be a lot of work the next month for the Champions group and over 100 Mantis items to review shortly as other committees continue to meet and approve resolution to issues. Dave Rich has helped us move to a new version of Mantis. It looks fine and more team members used it before rolling it out to all. The process to move an item through the system has changed a bit. It makes it easier as an item goes to and from Stu. And there are improved searches in Mantis now. Karen asked Neil to talk with Stu to ensue he has all the knowledge he needs to best search for items that require his attention. 9 NEW BUSINESS There was no new business. 10 NEXT MEETING (ANNOUNCE DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION, IF KNOWN) 8/30 Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT 10/4 Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT 11/8 Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT 12/13 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 8:45 a.m. PDT. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Jul 12 09:07:37 2007
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