[P1800] 2-July-2009 APPROVED Meeting Minutes

From: Brophy, Dennis <dennisb_at_.....>
Date: Fri Jul 31 2009 - 09:31:07 PDT
Shalom's changes aer included from our meeting yesterday.

-Dennis 
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IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Ballot Review Committee

APPROVED MINUTES

2 July 2009

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PDT

Teleconference

 


1          CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS

The meeting was resumed at 8:04 a.m. PDT.

 

Member DRs/DRAs Present: 

Dennis Brophy (Mentor Graphics, DR) 

Mehdi Mohtashemi (Synopsys, DR)

Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR)

Yossi Levi (Intel DR)

Neil Korpusik (Sun, DR)

 

Member DRAs Present:

Dave Rich (Mentor DRA)

Yatin Trivedi (Synopsys DRA)

 

Observers:

Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL - Editor)

Shalom Bresticker (Intel)

Cliff Cummings (Sunburst Design)

2          Approve agenda

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

3          Patent Policy and Call for Patents 

Chair Pieper read the patents slides which can be found here
<http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt> . 

4          Approval of Minutes 

A motion was made (Yatin Trivedi, Neil Korpusik) was made to approve the
28 May 2009 meeting minutes. The motion passed unanimously.

 

Karen relinquished the chair position to Dennis Brophy.

 

A motion was made (Yatin Trivedi, Karen Pieper) to approve the 17 June
2009 meeting continuation minutes.   The motion passed unanimously. 

 

Dennis relinquished chair position to Karen Pieper.

5          Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update 

No issue.

6          Editing Update 

The preliminary draft 9 of the LRM was posted to eda.org and
grouper.ieee.org.  Editing is expected to be done for the final items by
the end of next week.  Shalom said that there were some ballot comments
that were sent to the editor instead of the technical sub-committees
(ballot comments 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 18, 22, 71, 124, 128, and 136) and no
Mantis item was opened for these.  He verified the corrections of these
problems are in Draft 9, and that they are correct there.

Stu did send a marked up copy of the ballot items list that have been
implemented in draft 9.  There were a large number of items not
highlighted since they will be approved today and some other items that
require no editing.  Stu asked who was keeping the master list of ballot
items current.  And details of that were discussed.    

From the checking that has been done and the reports from the subgroup
chairs, we appear to be done.  That is, we have completed the work or
that remaining will be approved today.

7          Balloting Update 

Ballot reslution is almost complete.

8          Schedule Status Update 

*	June 15, 2009 SV-*C complete ballot feedback 
*	June 17, 2009 Wednesday Teleconference at 8am continuing the May
28 meeting 
*	July 2, 2009 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- P1800 approval of content of recirculation draft 
*	July 13, 2009 Recirculation pre-draft available 
*	July 20, 2009 Review of the recirculation draft complete--only
editing issues allowed 
*	July 27, 2009 Recirculation draft available 
*	July 30, 2009 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- P1800 approval of the recirculation draft 
*	July 31, 2009 Submission deadline for IEEE Standards Board
Meeting 9/9-11 
*	September 9-11, 2009 IEEE Standards Board Meeting, Piscataway,
NJ 
*	August 3, 2009 Recirculation ballot starts 
*	August 17, 2009 Recirculation ballot closes 
*	August 27, 2009 Teleconference 8am 
*	-------------- P1800 approval of standard if no additional
recirculations required 
*	October 19, 2009 Submission deadline for IEEE Standards Board
Meeting 12/7-9 
*	December 7-9, 2009 IEEE Standards Board Meeting, Piscataway, NJ 
*	December 15, 2009 Initiate press release to announce IEEE-SA
Approval 
*	March 30, 2010 Initiate press release to announce Publication
available 

9          P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update

There was a meeting on Monday of all the Champions except for Neil
Korpusik.  All issues were passed unanimously.  The 65 issues can be
found here
<http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/att-0874/SV-P1800-07012009.xls>
.  35 of them require LRM edits.

 

A motion (Dennis Brophy, Neil Korpusik) was made to approve the list of
65 issues.  The motion passed unanimously.  

 

There was a question about the ballot items that were suspended or left
open given no time and/or being out of scope for the standard.  The
recommendation is to not close out those issues so they can be easily
held over to the next version of the standard.  The ballot items set by
the working group to be suspended will be returned to the Mantis
feedback status for committees to deal with at a later date for a
revision standard.  This will ensure those comments are not dropped from
future consideration.

 

Stu will be adding the items we approved today to the draft LRM.  The
edits will be done by 13 July 2009 and that recirculation draft will be
posted with a one week review period for working group review.   This
meeting should then be suspended so that on 23 July 2009 the working
group can approve moving the draft to the IEEE to conduct the
recirculation ballot.  

 

10        DAC

Stu and Cliff have a one hour slot to give an update on SystemVerilog.
There has been one small announcement was sent out about this
SystemVerilog 2009 update report at DAC.  It was asked if the invitation
distribution could be broaden and a call to attend the meeting be sent
to all DAC attendees?  Yatin will contact Georgia to see if DAC would do
us a favor to send this out to attendees.   It was noted that DAC would
probably not do this. Cliff will contact Cooley to see if he will alert
his members.  

 

11        New business

There were some issues on a vote recently conducted in a working group.
Do you count the chair or not when a vote is taken?  Are proxy votes
allowed?  What happens when someone abstains?  It is eligible voters
present?  For close votes, voting is contentious.  Chair Pieper has
asked Neil Korpusik to draft a straw man update to the voting procedures
so it is well understood what happens in close votes.   

 

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

23 July 2009 P1800 BRC Continuation Meeting Teleconference 8 a.m. PDT 

 

13        Adjournment 

A motion (Dennis Brophy, Yatin Trivedi) made to suspend the meeting
until 23 July 2009 at 8 a.m. PDT.  The motion was approve unanimously.
The meeting suspended at 8:58 a.m. 


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