[P1800] 11 February 2010 UNAPPROVED Working Group Meeting Minutes

*IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group*

*UNAPPROVED MINUTES*

*11 February 2010*

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

*Teleconference*

*1 CALL TO ORDER - INTRODUCTIONS & AFFILIATIONS
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The meeting was called to order at 8:03 a.m. PST.

Neil Korpusik agreed to take minutes for this meeting.

*_Member DRs/DRAs Present: _*

Dave Rich (Mentor Graphics, DR)
Mehdi Mohtashemi (Synopsys, DR)

Karen Pieper (Accellera, DR)

Daniel Even-haim (Intel DR)

Neil Korpusik (Sun, DR)

Charles Dawson (Cadence, DR)**

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*_Member DRAs Present:_*

Brad Pierce (Synopsys DRA)

*_Observers:_*

Nikhil Rishiyur (Bluespec)

Peter Flake (Elda Technology Ltd)

Cliff Cummings (Sunburst Design)
JL Gray (Verilab)

*2 Approve agenda
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A motion (Mehdi Mohtashemi, Dave Rich) was made to approve the agenda.
The motion passed unanimously.

*3 Patent Policy and Call for Patents
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Chair Pieper read the IEEE patent policy to the group and displayed it
on the WebEx. The patents slides can be found here
<http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt>.
 

*4 Approval of Minutes *

    * Minutes of the January 14, 2010 Meeting
          o http://www.eda-twiki.org/sv-ieee1800/hm/0962.html

A motion (Charles Dawson, Dave Rich) was made to approve the 14 January
2010 minutes. The motion passed unanimously.
 

*5 Funding, Budgeting, and Financial Update*

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Chair Pieper displayed the list of names of those people that signed up
for the celebration dinner on February 25. We now have 15 confirmed
attendees. Karen will make a reservation at a local Indian restaurant.

*6 DVCon Face-to-Face to discuss proposals for the next revision
*

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The meeting will be from 8:00 a.m. -- 4 p.m. at Mentor Graphics San
Jose, CA office.

Chair Pieper presented the preliminary agenda for the meeting. There
will be approximately 15 presentations
ranging in length from 15 to 20 minutes each. The presentations will be
followed by 2 hours of discussion.
The following guidelines were given on what form the presentations
should take:

     - Why you are interested in these extensions
     - Why these changes are important
     - Describe the changes
     - Mention use models - for those items that have already been in use

Karen will make adjustments to the schedule if there are additional
presenters.

*7 Press releases*

Dennis has been working with the IEEE to finalize the press release. It
is anticipated that the press release
will contain links to sites where the LRM may be purchased.

*8 Schedule Status Update*

    * February 26, 2010 Face-to-Face inviting proposals for the next
      revision
    * March 11, 2010 Teleconference 8am

*9 Discussion of new PAR
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The face-to-face meeting will allow us to know what might go into the
next standard and then be used to establish the PAR. Therefore there
was no discussion on this topic.

*10 P1800 technical committees and Champions operational update

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Each of the committees is preparing a short presentation for the
Face-to-Face meeting.
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*11 New Business
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None.

*12 Next meeting (announce date, time, and location, if known)
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March 11, 2010 P1800 Meeting teleconference 8:00 a.m. PST
 

*13 Adjournment
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A motion (Charles Dawson) was made to adjourn the meeting. The end of
the agenda being reached, no second was needed and the meeting adjourned
at 8:27 a.m. PST.

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