[P1800] 12-February-2009-UNAPPROVED-Meeting-Minutes

All,

Please let me know of any errors or omissions to the minutes and I will
adjust them.

-Dennis 
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IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group

UNAPPROVED MINUTES

12 February 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)

Matt Maidment (Intel DRA)

 

Member DRAs Present:

Dave Rich (Mentor DRA)

Yatin Trivedi (Synopsys DRA)

 

Observers:

Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL - Editor)

Cliff Cummings (Sunburst Design)

Shalom Bresticker (Intel)

Victor Berman (IEEE DASC Chair)

Michiel Ligthart, Verific Design Automation


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 8 January 2009 meeting with the change in Item 5 by Neil and the
change in Item 9 by Shalom.  The motion passed unanimously.  

 

5          FUNDING, BUDGEING, AND FINANCIAL UPDATE
The last invoice was sent out and members are getting them.  The payment
was rounded down to the nearest $100.00.  

 

6          Editing update

There are no Mantis items in Editor State, so the draft is ready to
deliver when we are ready to go to ballot.

 

7          BallotING update

There was balance as established after JEITA joined but another entity
joined as a user changing balance.  Karen discussed a general interest
listing for one entity that both produces and consumes the standard to
modify their categorization.  We do have balance now.  Therefore we can
now consider if we are ready to go to ballot.

 

DASC Chair Berman indicated that based on what we have seen from the
last meeting, the status remains the same with respect to the disclosure
notice from Mentor Graphics.  The working group either can move forward
or not move forward.  There are processes outside the IEEE (business and
legal) that are in place to address these issues.  Intel has shared some
conference papers with Victor in the area of the extensions added to the
standard which Victor is willing to share.  Neil believes that it would
be useful that they be made available to the DRs if either we go to
ballot or not.

 

A motion (Matt Maidment, Mehdi Mohtashemi) was made to take the draft to
ballot.  A roll call ballot was taken.  (Cadence - NO, Intel - YES,
Mentor - YES, Sun - YES, Synopsys - YES) The ballot passed with greater
than 2/3 approval.

 

Action Request [Stu Sutherland]: Send a copy of the draft to Karen and
Dennis.

 

8          Schedule Status Update 

Karen will send the draft to the IEEE today and the vote will start
probably in 10 days or less.  The ballot will complete no earlier than
19 March and ballot comments will come back end of March, therefore the
next meeting will be 2 April 2009.

*	January 9, 2009 Close of the invitation to ballot 
*	January 16, 2009 Balance in the balloting group confirmed 
*	February 2, 2009 Last editorial issues for the ballot draft must
be filed 
*	February 12, 2009 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- Ballot draft available 
*	-------------- Vote to go to ballot 
*	February 16. 2009 Ballot opens 
*	March 16, 2009 Ballot closes 
*	March 30, 2009 Ballot responses available 
*	April 2, 2009 Teleconference 8am 
*	May 14, 2009 Committees respond to ballot responses 
*	May 21, 2009 Champions meeting 
*	May 28, 2009 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- P1800 approval of content of recirculation draft 
*	June 8, 2009 Recirculation draft 
*	June 22, 2009 Recirculation results back 
*	August 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA
Approval 
*	October 30, 2009 Initiate press release to announce Publication
available 

9          P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update

All the committees have been idle except for the CC.  Mantis 1775 has
been worked on to correct mistakes to the include files.  The resolution
of Mantis 1775 is a ballot comment at this point.  There was discussion
of Mantis 226 was addressed in the draft.  Mantis 226 was finished and
that went into the preliminary draft.  

 

JEITA did comment on the drafts and all their issues were addressed.
Chair Pieper wants to thank the committees for the work to address their
comments.     

 

10        DAC

Chair Pieper sent email to Lynn Horobin and we learned we may be able to
piggyback on what is going on at DAC.  There is no formal plan yet.  Stu
and Cliff believe a one hour slot of time would be enough to cover the
new features of P1800-2009.  We will plan to hold the event either after
Accellera's breakfast or even a vendor pavilion panel on the exhibit
floor.

 

11        NEW BUSINESS

Draft 6 should be available at the IEEE Store, not just their digital
library.  Noelle will help us get it available from the IEEE Store.  We
would really prefer to have Noelle have the ballot draft made available
for purchase instead.  Chair Pieper will discuss with Noelle making the
ballot draft available for purchase instead.  

 

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

April 2, 2009 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
9:08 a.m. PST


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