Unapproved minutes of the SV-XC Committee Meeting (June 13, 2007)

From: Logie Ramachandran <Logie.Ramachandran_at_.....>
Date: Wed Jun 13 2007 - 15:58:57 PDT
Unapproved minutes of the SV-XC Committee Meeting
Date:    Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Time:    08:00am - 10:00 am PST

Attendees
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-pppp--pppp-p  Somdipta Roy (TI)
ppppppppppppp  Logie Ramachandran (Synopsys)
p-pp-ppp-pppp  Ulli Holtmann (Synopsys)
-p-pp-pp-pppp  Tapan Halder (Synopsys)
p---pp--ppppp  Bob Shur (Cadence)
--------pp--p  Rob Slater (Freescale)
p---ppppppppp  Arnab Saha (Mentor)
p-pp-pppp-p-p  John Shields (Mentor)
pp---pppppppp  Amit Kohli (Cadence)
pppppppp-pppp  Kathy McKinley(Cadence)
-----------pp  Scott Cranston(Cadence)
--p-p-ppp-p-p  Kevin Camaron(Sonics)
------------p  Michael Williams (Cadence)
------------p  Sudip Chakrabarti (Synopsys)
-----------p-  John Stickley (Mentor)
-ppp--p-pppp-  NS Subramanian (Cadence)
---p------p--  Geoffrey Coram (Analog Devices)
-p-p---ppp---  Nitin Khurana  (Cadence)
p-p-pppppp---  Micheal Rohleder (Freescale)
------p-pp---  Don Ticarich(Sonics)
------p------  Thanapoom Lertpanyavit(Intel)
pp-----------  Rudra Mukherjee (Mentor)
pp-----------  Hassan Shahab (Intel)


Agenda

+ Review IEEE patent policy
http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

(Vote) Bob moves it has been read. 
       Kathy seconds. 
       No objections. No abstains. Motion passes

+ Review minutes of the May 30, 2007 meeting
http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-xc/hm/0172.html

(Vote) Kathy moves that the minutes be approved.
       Bob seconds.. 
       No objections. No abstains. Motion passes


+ Binding
Committee reviewed the strong and weak  typing rules
across languages.
    
 - Committeem members discussed the first paragraph under 
    "Implications of Typing
    Rules" needs further elaboration. The package requirements
    needed further discussion. 
     - (John) Package is a conceptual model that enables the
              sharing of types across languages.
     - (John) Package can hold the definition of the types and
              be imported across the languages. 
     - (Bob)  Enforcing a single definition rule would be 
              impossible for SystemC since the definitions would
              have to go through C++ compiler. 
     - (Kathy) Duplicate definitions of types  should be allowed
               across multiple languages. 
 - (Straw Poll) - Acceptance of current proposal for
    compatible types. Bob/Michael wanted further email
    discussion before acceptance. 

    (A/I Michaeal/Bob) to post questions on types for further
    discussion. Acceptance vote will be scheduled for next meeting


 - John reviewed his writeup on Libraries and Compilation Order
   http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-xc/hm/0098.html
     
    - Definition of library
      - Logical collection of design units that is suitable for
          - sharing across users 
          - inputs to a  compiler. 
      - SystemC does not have a concept of libraries. 
   
 - (Vote) Kathy moves we accept the requirements as stated in 
            http://www.eda-stds.org/sv-xc/hm/0098.html
          John seconds.  
	  No objections. No abstains.  Motion passes

 - Kathy suggested that we should have additional requirements for
   opaque connections. 
   (A/I John)will come up with requirements for opaque connections

 - John proposed the need for object kind compatibility 
   (wires/variables/signals)  requirements
   (A/I Kathy) will come up with requirements for object kind
compatibility


+  Adjournment motion
Bob moves that we adjourn, Kathy seconds


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+ Additional information:

1. Committee website: http://www.eda-twiki.org/sv-xc
2. Survey for users : http://www.eda-twiki.org/sv-xc/otherdocs/survey1.0.txt
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Loganath Ramachandran   
Director, R&D
Verification Group,      
Synopsys
Mountain View, CA 94043

Ph: 650-584-4891
Em: logie@synopsys.com

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