Please send any corrections to the minutes for me to make. Regards, Dennis ________________________________ IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group UNAPPROVED MINUTES 8 January 2009 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PST Teleconference 1 CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS The meeting was called to order at 8:04 a.m. PST. 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) Matt Maidment (Intel DRA) Observers: Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL - Editor) Cliff Cummings (Sunburst Design) Shalom Bresticker (Intel) Victor Berman (IEEE DASC Chair) 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 called our attention to the IEEE patent slides. See: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Chair Pieper directed everyone to the URL for the patent policy. 4 Approval of Meeting Minutes A motion (Dennis Brophy, Neil Korpusik) was made to approve the minutes of the 4 December 2008 meeting. The motion passed unanimously. 5 Patent Discussion with Victor Berman Victor asked to address the group since a major step to take the standard to sponsor ballot is on today's agenda. He wanted to address the group before the vote was conducted to see if the group had additional questions he might be able to answer. Victor reiterated that Dennis Brophy, Mentor Graphics DR, disclosed potential essential patents and that Mentor in that disclosure indicated they would not license the patents. All the rules have been followed to date respect to disclosure and therefore nothing stands in the way of the group to go to vote to go to sponsor ballot. Victor wants to ensure the working group understands the step they will take to continue to go to sponsor ballot. There is no IEEE reason to stop the process. However, if anyone wants to ask questions or share positions, he wanted to be available to answer any questions and allow that discussion. When asked if there is history and precedence to guide the working group, Victor indicated there is no such precedence. Victor indicated the IEEE SA could deny standards certification based on an outstanding patent that will not be licensed. A motion (Yossi Levi, Charles Dawson) was made to delay by one month to take the standard to sponsor ballot. Roll-call vote: Intel - Yes, Cadence - Yes, Mentor - Abstain, Synopsys - Yes, Sun - Yes. The motion passed. 6 FUNDING, BUDGEING, AND FINANCIAL UPDATE Since we are moving in to the next year and will operate as a working group and then ballot review group. Thus, we need to pay the editor fee and EPP fee for a total assessment of $6,000 per entity for funding Action Request [Dennis Brophy]: Contact the IEEE SA about when a working group ends to determine when the EPP fee should be paid and when it does not need to be paid. 7 Editing update Ballot Draft 8 was delivered. There are some editorial questions that have come in after Draft 8 was out. Stu will continue to collect comments and create an updated Draft 8 by the week of February 2nd that resolves editorial issues only. In regards to recognizing individuals who contributed to the standard, there was a discussion about how to list affiliation. In particular, a person who was affiliated with Cadence when he worked on the standard does not today. We will use his Cadence affiliation for the attribution in the standard as he was affiliated with Cadence when he worked on the standard. 8 Ballot group update There are 9 entities that are part of the ballot pool. On review of JEITA's declared category, it appeared they might be better categorized as general interest given the group is formed from EDA companies and EDA tool users. Chair Pieper will have that conversation with the group. Other can continue to join the sponsor ballot pool until about noon EST, 9 January 2009. 9 Schedule Status Update With the one month delay on vote to go to release to sponsor ballot, the schedule now looks like the following: * December 19, 2008 Review of Draft 9 Edits complete * January 1, 2009 Close of the invitation to ballot * January 8, 2009 Balance in the balloting group confirmed * January 8, 2009 Teleconference 8am * -------------- Ballot draft available * -------------- Vote to go to ballot * January 10. 2009 Ballot opens * February 10, 2009 Ballot closes * February 24, 2009 Ballot responses available * February 26, 2009 Teleconference 8am * March 26, 2009 Teleconference 8am * April 9, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses * April 16, 2009 Champions meeting * April 23, 2009 Teleconference 8am * -------------- P1800 approval of content of recirculation draft * June 8, 2009 Recirculation draft * June 22, 2009 Recirculation results back * July 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA Approval * September 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication available 10 P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update Neil provided a report to the committee and reviewed the details with the group. The report can be found at http://www.eda-stds.org/pub/sv-ieee1800/Meetings/2009/January/tc_status. 010809.txt. 11 DAC Karen will contact Lynn at Accellera to see if the team can share a room with Accellera to hold a technical meeting to review the content of the new standard. Stu/Cliff will contact Leon Stok to see what is available from DAC under the user track session. 12 NEW BUSINESS None. 13 Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known) February 12, 2008 P1800 Meeting teleconference 8:00 a.m. PST 14 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 9:25 a.m. PST -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Jan 8 10:48:19 2009
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