[vhdl-200x] Accellera VHDL 4.0 hand-off to VASG

Hi,
TA DA.  Accellera has passed its VHDL 4.0 standard
on to VASG for standardization.  The official press
release is here:
http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=364405

We are on the road to preparing for balloting.  The ballot
pool has already been formed (last summer) and is patiently waiting
for VASG to pass on the standard.

Here are the steps that I know of that we need to do before we are
ready to submit the draft for balloting:

1: Vote on and incorporate approved ISAC corrections.
Through out the Accellera process, ISAC has been working with the
Accellera VHDL TSC to screen submitted issues to the current standard
and fix them.  There are a few additional corrections that ISAC would like to
get in the draft before we send it to IEEE-SA for balloting.  When ISAC
has these items ready for consideration they will pass them to VASG for
approval before they are added to the draft.

2: Revise the draft per IEEE-SA requests.
During the balloting of the VHPI amendment, IEEE identified
some structural issues with the draft they would like corrected
so that the draft will be compliant with their current documentation
standards.

3: After the draft is finalized, the draft will be presented to VASG
for approval to be sent for balloting.

Did I miss anything?

Best Regards,
Jim Lewis
VASG Chair
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	VHDL 4.0 hand-off
Date: 	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:50:38 -0600
From: 	Lance Thompson <lancet@us.ibm.com>
To: 	jim@synthworks.com
CC: 	peter@ashenden.com.au




Hi Jim,

I presume you saw the press release and the "minutes" to Wednesdays VHDL
TSC meeting.  I guess that would make this the formal hand-off of VHDL
4.0 the the VASG for IEEE ballot.

Accellera did approve the budget to provide editorial support for the
ballot process.  It is not a big budget, so be gentle :-)

Cheers,
Lance Thompson
GES Sales, Americas Central
IBM Global Engineering Solutions
e-mail: lancet@us.ibm.com
office: 507.253.0145
mobile: 507.261.3607

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