| (last updated on April 26, 2005, by Johny Srouji) | ||||||||||||||
| IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog WG Action Items - April 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Captured at the meeting continuation on May 5, 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| Determine the date through which Mac and Alec were chair and co-chair of 1364 along with any others who need to be recognized and update issue 669. | Tom Fitzpatrick | 5-May-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of April 19, 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| Send the patent LOA (Letter Of Assurance) form out to the group to complete it if they need to do this. | Noelle Humenick | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Get the month in 2005 that Shalom’s editorship will be listed. | Stu Sutherland | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Have Accellera report to Noelle on the payments still outstanding, if any | Dennis Brophy | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Support the public relations of SystemVerilog via other public events at DAC and report back to the group. | Shrenik Mehta | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Update issue 415 of SV-CC with a proposal. | Charles Dawson | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Follow-up with SV-CC to address VPI issues from 644 approval. | Karen Pieper | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Follow-up with SV-CC to address VPI issues from 617. | Karen Pieper | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Update the Mantis item so the complete text is in place for the editor. | Karen Pieper | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Update the official schedule based on the changes made in the meeting (captured in the unapproved minutes) | Noelle Humenick / Johny Srouji | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Go back to Accellera to determine if it can support an additional $4K for editing costs. Also, Accellera should discuss ongoing support beyond this current revision of the specification. | Dennis Brophy / Shrenik Mehta | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Communicate to the technical sub-groups how to get copies of the drafts to review. There will be a password version at eda.org and a password-free version behind the IEEE password protected site for WG members-only. Johny will authorize those who need access on the eda.org. | Karen Pieper / Johny Srouji | 19-Apr-05 | 19-May-05 | |||||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of February 17, 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| A motion (Dennis Brophy, Cliff Cummings) was made to thank Shalom Bresticker for his tremendous contributions to P1364-2005. The motion was carried unanimously. Action Request: Johny Srouji to inform Shalom of this motion. | Johny Srouji | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| There are some things that still need to be changed in 1364 LRM Draft based on the IEEE review. The intro section with acknowledgements needs to be updated. This can be done by the chair or co-chair. The scope is missing and needs to match the PAR as well. Neil and Tom to update the draft with their input to fix these IEEE issues. Stu can help with the Framemaker if need be. | Neil Korpusik, Tom Fitzpatrick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | This is complete - proposal was submitted. One remaining question is the capture of editorial history for Shalom who did a great amount of work. The resolution was to list both Shalom and Stu as editors while using dates. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Noelle to take a look at the IEEE comment on the date-specific use and the things that should not be included. (Michelle’s item 1D). | Noelle Humenick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Stu and Noelle discussed w/ Michelle and they were able to resolve this issue. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| The creation of separate graphics files may be an issues since it is in Framemaker format. Does this need to happen or not? Maybe some translation SW is available. | Noelle Humenick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | It was resolved. They did not need to be in separate graphics file but they are not in an "editable" format. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Noelle Humenick: How do we get non-voting members to review the spec and/or offer comments? Or, do we need to allow this? | Noelle Humenick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | it was upto the WG chair group to allow access. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis Brophy: Contact Alec at Fintronics about his voting status. | Dennis Brophy | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | It turned out that Alex did not loose his voting status | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Noelle Humenick: What do you do with negative ballots that have no comment? Can this really be done? | Noelle Humenick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Yes - but they are counted differently than negative ballots w/ comments | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Noelle: Add a priority column in the spreadsheet. | Noelle Humenick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Noelle: Remove/Hide the type of comment column. | Noelle Humenick | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Karen Pieper: Communicate the schedule and the need for face-to-face and/or telephone meeting. | Karen Pieper | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Johny Srouji: Send Stu a copy of the P1364 PAR. | Johny Srouji | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Neil Korpusik: Communicate the schedule to the 1364 group. | Neil Korpusik | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Oz Levia: Present the SV WG update during the Accellera open membership meeting presentation. | Oz Levia | 17-Feb-05 | 19-Apr-05 | Done - also presented at the EDA dev. Forum | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of January 26, 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| Work with Charles to get permissions to them to allow them to change status on some issues | Karen Pieper | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Create issue number for the two ETF issues presented in her presentation to the group so they can be tracked. | Karen Pieper | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Karen reported prior to meeting suspense that she created issues V-647 and V-648 to track these issues. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Review intro clauses that are labeled informative to ensure that they can be made normative. | Karen Pieper | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Victor to track category classification in coordination with Chair Srouji. | Victor Berman | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Noelle will send Victor and Chair the full list to be reviewed on 2/4/05 | PENDING | |||||||||
| Send PDF version of application to Neil Korpusik, Cliff Cummings and Rishiyur Nikhil | Noelle Humenick | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Send email address to Noelle for Hamaguchi-san so she can be sent a notice to joint the ballot group. | Dennis Brophy | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Hamaguchi-san’s email address is: hamaguchi.kasumi@jp.panasonic.com | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Send out reminder of the 17 February 2005 meeting. | Dennis Brophy | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Copy Victor on press release conversation with Johny. | Noelle Humenick | 26-Jan-05 | 4-Feb-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of December 17, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| Accellera to put IEEE P1800 and P1364 behind a password protected area. | Vassilios Gerousis | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Contact Verisity and IBM and share information with Victor Berman & Oz Levia | Johny Srouji | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Chair contacted Verisity and IBM. Verisity withdrew from the WG. IBM payment is in process | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Contact Infineon and share information with Victor Berman and Oz Levia | Dennis Brophy | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | An update was given by Dennis. They were contacted but no definitive response from them. They were also notified on loosing their membership | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Keep Noelle current with payment information. | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Invoices outstanding for this year were submitted | On Going | |||||||||
| In the short-term, determine if we can split Stu’s contract in to parts to keep him moving forward | Noelle Humenick | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Publish new spreadsheet with updated increased fees to determine if the increased fees cover the costs | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| To work with Stu to review intro clauses for LRM. | Karen Pieper, Johny Srouji | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| To add an issue to track the inclusion of clause 26 in the specification | Neil Korpusik | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Opened Errata 348 on Dec'17 - currently assigned to sv-bc | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Send email addresses to send the ballot invitation to Andrew and copy Johny on this email. | Dennis Brophy | 17-Dec-04 | 26-Jan-05 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of November 22, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| Contact Infineon and Verisity DR and report back on assessment payment status. | Dennis Brophy | 22-Nov-04 | 15-Dec-04 | Invoices were resent to the DRs a couple of weeks ago. They were resent again on Dec'14. Infineon DR is still in the process of decision. Verisity DR expressed he is busy at this stage. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Contact Matt Maidment and work with him to address the 17 unaddressed issues to schedule and prioritize. | Karen Pieper | 22-Nov-04 | 15-Dec-04 | Was done. At this point sv-bc is done unless this WG decides to give them more time (to address the isues they decided not to resolve) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Determine when to freeze all work and allow the SV-CC time to address all final issues from other committees. | SV WG | 22-Nov-04 | 15-Dec-04 | SV-CC is having a meeting to resolve outstanding issues - should get a status update later today. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| On 3 December 2004, Oz is to send out an impact analysis and come up with possible non-obtrusive suggestions to resolve issue 50. | Oz Levia | 22-Nov-04 | 3-Dec-04 | Oz sent it out to the WG and Champions. A revised proposal was submitted and it is now back to sv-cc (to be voted on) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| determine if there is an issue of use of parameters in generates with their use in SystemVerilog. | Karen Pieper | 22-Nov-04 | 15-Dec-04 | Karen is not aware of any issues | CLOSED | |||||||||
| What is the amount of effort to include the UML-based descriptions into the specification. Contact Francoise and Charles to see what the amount of work would be. | Stu Sutherland | 22-Nov-04 | 15-Dec-04 | the amount of effort is huge (80 man hours of work). w/ the current schedule, it is not going to make it into this version. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Send meeting
notice for the 5 January 2005 telecon, to ratify to review the champion recommendations regarding resolved issues by SV-CC (which was given two extra weeks) |
Johny Srouji | 22-Nov-04 | 5-Dec-04 | Chair sent a meeting notice | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Have the 1364 chair and co-chair report back to the SV-WG by 3 December 2004 on a schedule for the 1364 drafts in conjunction with the 1800 schedule and under the constraints that no changes to the ballot schedule are allowed and no additional funds are available. They should consult with Stu and Shalom. | Tom Fitzpatrick, Neil Korpusik | 22-Nov-04 | 3-Dec-04 | Tom & Neil w/ Stu and Shalom; sent the schedule; it is now incorporated | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of October 11, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Action Item | Owner | Capture Date | Due Date | Status | Update | |||||||||
| Contact David Ringle to have them move ahead the process to update the LOA. We need to see if this can be done prior to the December 2004 meeting. | Noelle Humenick, Victor Berman | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Done. Updates in the minutes of Nov 22 meeting | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Contact Chair Srouji to discuss changes that Verisity counsel would like to see in the LOA. | Michael McNamara | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Michael sent the following to P1800 ch+B25air | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Instruct Accellera to send out invoices to collect the project fees. | Vassilios Gerousis | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Vassilios did that. Invoices were sent out, due for Dec 1. A quote was generated | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Confirm that the funded services contract has been accepted. | Noelle Humenick | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Was accepted. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Close on editor contract within 2 weeks. Anyone that wishes to contact Noelle can reach her via email at n.humenick@ieee.org to discuss this opportunity with her in person | Noelle Humenick | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Done. Stu Sutherland was elected as P1800 Technical Editor | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Submit nominations for SV-AC and SV-CC champions to Karen Piper | Users | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Karen did not get any new nominations, but this is not an issue as of now | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Call for a vote on errata presented to the SystemVerilog Working Group that includes approval to return issues 5, 78, 121 and 125 to the SV-CC. The vote is to close on 18 October 2004 | Johny Srouji | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Done, and all issues were approved | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Create a report on the question if data types is one of those items that should be considered for the next releases of P1800 and P1364 | Jay Lawrence, Kathy McKinley | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Done and presented; Kathy is working on this. On going work (task force) unde sv-bc and led by Kathy | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Send recenetly passed issues by SystemVerilog technical committees | Karen Pieper | 11-Oct-04 | 15-Nov-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Meet with Shalom to see what ongoing help and support he can give to P1364 to document approved errata | Johny Srouji | 11-Oct-04 | 22-Nov-04 | Johny talked to Shalom who has also talked to Stu. The status is that all items which were approved by the 1364 WG have been already incorporated in the Draft of 1364 w/ the exception of 3 issues. Stu and Shalom will work together on 1364 document to do what's necessary | CLOSED | |||||||||
| provide a monthly report to the project-monitoring group | Noelle Humenick | 14-Sep-04 | on going | on going updates (verbal and emails) were delivered (not a formal report) | ON GOING | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of September 14, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Submit a signed IEEE LOA or a reason explaining why the IEEE LOA cannot be signed by 1 October 2004 | All IEEE 1800 Members | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | LOA was submitted by Synopsys. Cadence and Mentor will send one. Verisity will address their specific concers to the Chair. User members are also required to submit such a form. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Work with PatCom to revise their LOA form to permit it to comply with clause 6. a. Victor to seek clarification on the need to read the IEEE Patent Slide information for clause 6 b when it does not apply in this case. Victor will report back within two days after the next PatCom meeting on the status of this | Victor Berman, Ed Rashba | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Victor contacted David Wrangle from PatCom asking to change the LOA form and discuss it in their next meeting. They suggested to have different letters from different entities. Victor asked to add a "box" to be checked for "assert". David said they won’t be able to discuss this before their next meeting in Dec. This item is still pending. Noelle will help in addressing this issue | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Work with Accellera to collect the project dues. Tell Accellera exactly how much to invoice by 1 October 2004. | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Oz sent an email to Accellera and various members. He receieved a message from Accellera that it was accepted. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Check with Intel legal on signing IEEE contract on behalf of P1800 by 1 October 2004. | Johny Srouji | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Dennis, as the WG secretary, signed the contract w/ IEEE funded services | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Work with IEEE to close on contract and present it to Accellera for signing by 1 October 2004. | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 14-Sep-04 | 1-Oct-04 | Dennis, WG secretary, signed the contract w/ IEEE funding services | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Report to the SV WG on the Data Types project in 1364 and look at what changes are required in the language to allow future support of dynamic and static types and types on wires. He will also report on the main differences between Verilog and SV data types. | Victor Berman | 14-Sep-04 | 11-Oct-04 | Victor has called for the task force meeting. This update is part of our Oct'11 WG F2F meeting | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of August 9, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Follow-up on Synopsys revised letter of assurance regarding compliance w/ IEEE patents policy | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Chair received a new letter of Assurance from Synopsys following PatCom template | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Contact PatCom for advice and review of this issue and seek a format of an assurance letter that we should use | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Chair contacted PatCom and receieved proper forms | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Issue Letters of Assurance in keeping with prescribe patent policy at next | All IEEE 1800 Members | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Determine how we keep IEEE-SA confidential information for the record | Dennis Brophy | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| From sv-ec: Johnny - needs to clarify that clause a. of the IEEE patent policy applies to the work of P1800 | Johny Srouji | 1-Sep-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Work with IEEE-SA to include information in the agreement that allows us to track time/cost usage and reports on a monthly basis | Oz Levia, Victor Berman | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Done (message attached) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Request $60K to cover partial cost of IEEE Funded Services program and have Accellera act as administrator for the collection of all other fees | Vassilios Gerousis] | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Vassilios presented the project requirements to the Accellera board and the request as sponsor of SystemVerilog to cover about 50% of the project costs was placed in front of the Accellera board. This $60K request was approved. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Define the process to get errata moved, addressed and approved by the SV WG. A method for those who do not have access to the database needs to also be put into place. | Karen Pieper | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Errata to be considered for inclusion in the standard must be submitted to the SVDB (http://www.eda-twiki.org/svdb/) by 1 September 2004 | All IEEE 1800 Members | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| To produce a cataloged and prioritized list of errata and report this to the SV WG at it next meeting | Karen Pieper | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Open | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Identify people that could perform the role of the LRM Manager and DB tracker. Those people will be contacted to see if they would accept the role | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Pending discussion on P1800 structure and operation on 11/10/04 F2F meeting | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Identify a small ad-hoc group that would report back to the SV WG on the future alignment of 1364 with SystemVerilog. Victor will lead and Cliff, Alec and Karen along with the BTF and PTF chair and co-chairs will participate to create the report. The report will be presented to the SV WG at the October meeting. Data types issues should be filed to ensure they are addressed | Johny Srouji | 9-Aug-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Captured in the meeting of July 1, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| If anyone knows of a patent that may be germane to the project, please inform the Chair | All IEEE 1800 Members | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Aug-04 | No patent germane to the project was submitted | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Review Synopsys patent information given to the chair from Victor Berman (Cadence DR) | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Chair received a letter form Assurance from Synopsys DR, Oz Levia (message) | CLOSED[1] | |||||||||
| Follow-up on Synopsys letter of assurance regarding compliance w/ IEEE patents policy | Johny Srouji | 26-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | in progress (message) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Determine how a tie is broken | Steve Mills | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done (message) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Make these changes to the P&Ps and get ratification of the P&Ps from the sponsors | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done (revised P&P was approved and sent to p1800 reflector) | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Attach a copy of the Accellera Assignment Letter to the minutes | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Include a copy of the unapproved CAG meeting motion | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Aug-04 | Done - Sent to Johny on 8/8/04 (message). | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to work with Steve on access to the unapproved SAB meeting minutes so they can become a part of this report | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done. Draft 01 is posted at p1800 website. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to contact Accellera to have them tender the SystemVerilog 3.1a specification in approved and mandated IEEE format | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to get next WG meeting logistics (of 8/9/04) details from Oz (Synopsys DR) | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to get next WG meeting logistics (of 9/13/04) details from Wolfgang (Infineon DR) | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Email request sent to Wolfgang on 8/8. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to get next WG meeting logistics (of 10/11/04) details from Victor (Cadence DR) | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | 9-Aug-04 | Email request sent to Victor on 8/8. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Dennis to contact JEITA SV-TC Chair, Hamaguchi-san to see if they can support a SystemVerilog Working Group meeting in Japan. | Dennis Brophy | 1-Jul-04 | TBD | Email request sent to Hamaguchi-san on 8/8. Message reply attached. January 26, 2005 was proposed. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Johny to send Dennis the proposed contract from Edward to be entered as part of the working group’s record | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 6-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Go to Accellera and present the funding proposals from the IEEE for P1800 and the desire to have Accellera be the funding agent | Johny Srouji / Vassilios Gerousis | 1-Jul-04 | 14-Sep-04 | Vassilios presented the project requirements to the Accellera board and the request as sponsor of SystemVerilog to cover about 50% of the project costs was placed in front of the Accellera board. This $60K request was approved. | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Get errata entered into SystemVerilog webpage located on eda.org by 15 July 2004 to help determine the funding needs | All IEEE 1800 Members | 1-Jul-04 | 15-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||
| Initiate election of Errata Technical Sub-Working Group Chair | Johny Srouji | 1-Jul-04 | 10-Jul-04 | Done | CLOSED | |||||||||