RE: [P1800] Re: IEEE 1800-2007

Hi,

I can clarify a little.

> > The IEEE used to have what is known as "1800-2008 draft 3a" 
> for sale.
> I
> > just
> > spent some time trying to find it in the IEEE web pages.
> >
> > Back in October, Dave Rich pointed to the following information for
> it. I
> > was
> > not able to find this document on the IEEE web site.
> >
> >     ISBN (13 DIGIT): 978-0-7381-5616-3  <--- Dave pointed 
> to this one

I found this referenced in the IEEE Standards Wire - December 2007
Newsletter, at
http://standards.ieee.org/standardswire/archives/sw_dec07_email.html.
However, it indeed appears to be no longer available.


> > I was able to find the following. The publication date is 
> showing up 
> > as 1/1/2007. Draft 3a came out on May 31, 2007. The page count is
> shown as
> > being 652. My copy of 1800-2005 has 648 pages. 1800-2008 draft 3a is
> over
> > 1000 pages (it is a merge of 1364 and 1800).

I don't know where the 652 page count came from.


> >     ISBN (13 DIGIT): 978-0-7381-5726-9  <--- I found this one
> >
> > The document I found is also referred to as
> >
> >     "62530: 2007 (E) Standard for SystemVerilog-Unified Hardware
> Design,
> >      Specification, and Verification Language"
> >
> >      Product Number: STDPD95745

This one is the IEC version of IEEE Std 1800-2005, under IEC/IEEE's
dual-logo standard agreement. For some parts of IEEE, this replaces IEEE
1800-2005. It is labelled 2007 because that is the IEC publication date,
but the body is IEEE 1800-2005. They also made some editing and
formatting changes at the beginning and end. The difference in the
number of pages (668 instead of 648) is mainly because they start page
numbering with the introductory material (Table of Contents, etc.).

I also found on IEEEXPlore one more version at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4040481, labelled:

P1800/D6, Aug 2005
IEEE Unapproved Draft Standard for SystemVerilog: Unified Hardware
Design, Specification and Verification Language Superseded by P1800/D6
Status: Archived Approved Draft
Publication Date: 2005

I was unable to access the document itself, but according to the label,
this is the Draft 6 version that preceded IEEE Std 1800-2005. We should
get that deleted.

Regards,
Shalom
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