[P1800] REVISED 04-Octobert-2007-UNAPPROVED Meeting Minutes

From: Brophy, Dennis <dennisb_at_.....>
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 21:21:54 PST
Here are the revised minutes from feedback I got from Alec, Neil and
John H and Karen P.

-Dennis 
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IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group

UNAPPROVED MINUTES

04 October 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) 

Swami Venkat (Synopsys, DR)

Matt Maidment (Intel, DR)

Charles Dawson (Cadence, DR)

Neil Korpusik (Sun Microsystems, DR)

Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR)

 

Member DRAs Present:

None

 

Observers:

Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL & Project Editor)

John Havlicek (Freescale & Chair SV-AC)

Alec Stanculescu (Fintronic USA)

Shalom Bresticker (Intel)


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 provided the location for the IEEE 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          Editing update

Numerous editorial and technical changes were made for draft 4.  54
Mantis items were incorporated into the draft.  Many of the updates come
from 24 corrections that JEITA reported need to be made.  Changes in the
draft are denoted with change bars and alert the read if they came from
Mantis items or from editorial review. In addition, over 200 additional
editorial changes were made, which mainly came from Shalom.  

 

Stu needs updates to any draft schedule changes to accommodate his
schedule.  Stu is also working on the Verilog AMS draft and needs to
coordinate with that group.  

 

Now that we have D4, there are many Mantis items that have approval by
the committees.  Do these need to be against D4 or can they be against
D3 was a question from Stu.  They may be against D3 for most cases. 

 

It is noted that Mantis 1674 is in, but if Mantis 1648 does not get
approved, the LRM will need modification.  John says 1648 (disable iff)
was approved but rejected by champions.   The champions are waiting for
feedback from other committees on 1648.  Stu's concern is that lack of
1648 approval will require some editing for D5.  This is the only item
that has this issue at this time.

 

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The IEEE should be contracting Stu to ensure there is a contract
transfer.  There appears to be no issue with this at the moment.

 

Stu plans to create a clean version of D4 with all the deletions removed
and many of the margin notes deleted.  This will be posted to the
download sites when available.  

 

5          APPROVAL OF 30 AUGUST 2007 MEETING MINUTES

Approval of the minutes is deferred to the next meeting.


6          FUNDING, BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL UPDATE

The current outstanding invoices are for editing.  This will be paid by
Accellera with the balance given to the IEEE.  The fees collected and
transferred to the IEEE can be used to pay any January or March invoices
for editing.

 

NOTE: After review of the schedule, we moved to other items of business
which may have had an impact on specific dates mentioned below.  We
moved out the schedule in these additional items but did not return to
the information below to make further adjustments.  The amount of time
to complete each task remains the same, but the dates will move out
based on the adjustment we made to the feature freeze date.

 

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 corrections 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 25, 2008         Two year anniversary for officer elections

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

November 30, 2008         Initiate press release to announce Publication
available


7          P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update
a. Technical committee Update

Committee reports can be found at:

http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2007/October/committees1004
07.pdf

http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2007/October/jeita.txt

http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2007/October/mantis_1800_09
05.txt

http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2007/October/schedule_10040
7.txt

 

The AC wants to extend the feature freeze date to the end of February.
And the BC wants development time extended to 12/15.  Charles says the
CC needs one month beyond the BC, which means a cutoff of 1/15.  

 

John Havlicek updated us on near-term issues that are under
consideration in the AC.  Plus he updated on some of the more complex
issues that are important to the AC.  It is recognized the issues are
not easy to solve, but are important to be solved.  Convincing arguments
are being made to address the issues.  Details on the issues are in the
reports above.

 

In summary, more time is needed.  The SV WG discussed how to give more
time and concluded with the following two motions.

 

A motion was made (Dennis Brophy, Charles Dawson) to change the schedule
to:

 

The SV-* committees must make lists by 2007-11-12 (date revised
according to suggestion by Matt) of all the Mantis items that will be
worked on during the extension periods.  The expectation was that any
item on the list of a committee must actually be in Mantis by that
deadline.

 

After the 2007-11-12 deadline, the committees are restricted in the
kinds of items not on their lists that can be addressed.  E.g., SV-BC
and SV-EC may work on merge, editing, and Champions issues.

 

On 2/15 the SV-CC must complete all items from its Mantis list.    Past
this date they are only authorized to work on merge, editing and
champions issues.

 

On 2/28 the SV-AC freezes.  It does not get leeway for merge, editing
and champions issues.  

 

The motion passed unanimously.

 

Action Request [Karen Pieper]: Update Schedule and broadcast to teams.

 

A motion was made (Matt Maidment, Dennis Brophy) to move the freeze date
from 11/15 to 11/12 to accommodate the next SV WG meeting.  The motion
passed unanimously. 

 

A motion was made (Neil Korpusik, Dennis Brophy) to pass the 21 Mantis
items passed unanimously by the champions in their email ballot.  The
motion passed unanimously.

 

b. JEITA issues update & 2005 ballot issues updates

The SV-BC has them on their list to be dealt with.  The BC has one to
close.  That leaves 3 in the AC and 2 in the CC.  From the AC, one of
the items (Mantis 1833) is related to the glitch item (Mantis 2005).
The solution to Mantis 2005 will most likely address Mantis 1833.   From
SV-CC, 1834 is closed and 1855 is open.   They are being tracked by the
committee.  

 

Neil provided an overall status report for all technical committees and
the report has been included by reference into the minutes of the
meeting above.

 

8          NEW BUSINESS

None.

 

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

11/15   Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT

12/20   Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT

2/14     Teleconference 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. PDT

 

9          ADJOURNMENT

A motion (Neil Korpusik, Charles Dawson) was made to adjourn the
meeting. The chair called the meeting closed at 10:01 a.m. PDT.

 

 


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