[P1800] 23-October-2008-UNAPPROVED-Meeting-Minutes

From: Brophy, Dennis <dennisb_at_.....>
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 12:48:02 PST
All,

Please forward any corrections to the meetings minutes to me.

-Dennis 
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IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group

UNAPPROVED MINUTES

23 October 2008

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

Teleconference

 


1          CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS

The meeting was called to order at 8:05 a.m. PDT.

 

Member DRs/DRAs Present: 

Dennis Brophy (Mentor Graphics, DR) 

Mehdi Mohtashemi (Synopsys, DR)

Charles Dawson (Cadence, DR)

Neil Korpusik (Sun Microsystems, DR)

Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR)

Yossi Levi (Intel, DR)

 

Member DRAs Present:

Dave Rich (Mentor DRA)

Karen Bartleson (Synopsys DRA)

Matt Maidment (Intel, DRA)

 

Observers:

Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL - Editor)

Shalom Bresticker (Intel)

 


2          APPROVE AGENDA


A motion (Dennis Brophy, Mehdi Mohtashemi) was made to approve the
agenda.  The motion passed unanimously.


3          CALL FOR PATENTS 

Chair Pieper read the IEEE patent slides.
See: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

 

Chair Pieper directed the group's attention to the URL for the patent
policy.

 

4          Approval of Meeting Minutes

A motion (Neil Korpusik, Mehdi Mohtashemi) was made to approve the
minutes of the September 11, 2008 meeting.  The motion passed
unanimously. 

 

5          BALLOTTING OF OFFICERS

The results of the elections have been reported.  Karen Pieper was
elected chair, Neil Korpusik was elected co-chair and Dennis Brophy was
elected secretary.  

 

6          MENTOR PATENT DISCLOSURE.  

The Mentor Graphics patent disclosure was shared. A motion was made
(Charles Dawson, <no second>) to postpone the proposed standard to the
IEEE for one month to give time for legal review from member companies.
The motion failed due to the lack of a second.

 

A motion was made (Mehdi Mohtashemi, Yossi Levi) to continue forward on
the current schedule without a delay to consider the Mentor Graphics
patent disclosure.  The motion passed (3 Approved, Charles Dawson
Disapprove and Dennis Brophy abstained).

 

7          FUNDING, BUDGEING, AND FINANCIAL UPDATE

We can expect invoices for payment in January 2009 shortly.

 

8          Editing update

Very limited issues have come up from Draft 7a so it should be easy to
close on the ballot version of the specification.

 

9          Schedule Status Update 
The next meeting will moved out from 13 November 2008 to 4 December
2008.  The IEEE review may also impact the committee reviews as well.
What is the cutoff date for comments?  If the draft goes to the IEEE,
feedback is expected by 23 November 2008.  Therefore, we will set our
internal cutoff date to be 23 November 2008.  

*	September 11, 2008 Draft 7 Available 
*	September 25, 2008 SV-CC edits complete on 2226 
*	-------------- Two year anniversary for officer elections 
*	September 28, 2008 Pre-ballot draft available (Draft 7) 
*	-------------- Submit draft for IEEE unpaid ballot review 
*	October 4, 2008 Remind entities to become members 
*	October 23, 2008 Teleconference 8am 
*	October 28, 2008 IEEE unpaid review complete 
*	November 1, 2008 Last editing corrections filed in svdb 
*	November 6, 2008 Open the invitation to ballot 
*	November 6, 2008 Champions meeting 
*	November 13, 2008 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- P1800 approval due 
*	December 5, 2008 Proposed completion date for draft 7a. We may
want to move this earlier. Discussion planned for the September meeting.

*	December 6, 2008 Close of the invitation to ballot 
*	December 15, 2008 Balance in the balloting group confirmed 
*	December 18, 2008 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- Ballot draft available 
*	-------------- Balloting begins 
*	January 15, 2008 Ballot closes 
*	January 31, 2009 Ballot responses available 
*	February 28, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses 
*	March 7, 2009 Champions meeting 
*	March 15, 2009 P1800 approval 
*	April 15, 2009 Recirculation draft (Was May 31 for 1800-2005) 
*	May 1, 2009 Recirculation results back 
*	June 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA
Approval 
*	August 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication
available 

 

10        P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update

 

Neil sent a summary of 41 Mantis items to the group for current status.
The report can be found at
http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2008/October/tc_status.
102308.txt. 

 

There are some unresolved issues.  Mantis 2486 is an editorial issue.
It seeks to move text and do some small edits.  

 

Mantis 2487 is not editorial.  There are six lines of text and four
lines of examples to take care of the issue.  Due to LRM changes, these
changes need to be made.   They are not adding but removing
contradictory.  A motion was made (Neil Korpusik, <no second>) to
approve the change.  The motion fails due to the lack of a second.

 

The SV-AC has not met since 19 August 2008.  One of their items was in a
review state.  A motion was made (Neil Korpusik, Dennis Brophy) to close
Mantis 2398.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

For the SV-BC there is one item in the editor state.   

 

For the SV-CC Mantis 2226 was the last one to be discussed and is in
alignment with Draft 7 and incorporated into Draft 7a.  For Mantis 2468
we are going to allow it to go forward as a ballot issue.  An old one,
Mantis 985 was approved by the WG contingent on some changes.  It was
overlooked and fell through the cracks.  A motion was made (Charles
Dawson, Neil Korpusik) was made to make the change in Mantis 985.  The
motion passed unanimously.

 

For the SV-EC there are not open issues or meetings except for review.
The SV-XC is also inactive.  

 

11        DATE, DAC, DVCon
The tutorial submitted by Dmitry was turned down by DATE.  They
submitted one to DVCon and will submit one to DAC as well.

 

12        NEW BUSINESS

Neil got a list of all the names from all subgroups (except from Neil's
subgroup) of contributors to the LRM from the beginning of the LRM
development.  Neil will send an email to all the contributors to ensure
their name and affiliation is accurate.  

Creation of the sponsor ballot pool can take place asynchronous with the
LRM development.  Karen will seek 1800 email reflector members to
sign-up and become an IEEE SA Entity member. 

 

10        Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)

December 4, 2008   P1800 Meeting teleconference 8 a.m. PST

 

12        Adjournment 

A motion (Dennis Brophy) was made to adjourn the meeting.  Having come
to the end of the agenda with no other business, the meeting ended at
9:01 a.m. PST


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