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Scope / Goals
Enhance/update VHDL for to improve performance, modeling capability, ease of use, simulation control, and the type system.

Meetings
Much of the work for this group will be done in conference calls and on the reflector.  Meetings are announced on the reflector.  Many of the meetings will be via conference calls and web tools.

02/25/03  Kick-off / Announcement and organizational meeting at DVCon
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02/27/03  Organizational meeting at DVCon
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03/03/03  Meeting at DATE
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06/06/03  WG Meeting at DAC 2003
PPT PDF Minutes PDF
09/23/03  WG Meeting at FDL 2003
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03/04/04  WG Meeting at DVCon 2004
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04/15/04  WG Meeting via Telecon
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05/25/04  WG Meeting via Telecon
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06/10/04  WG Meeting at DAC 2004 (San Diego, CA)
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Please see the email archive for additional meeting minutes.
Steering Committee

The VHDL-200x Steering Committee (SC) is chaired by the VASG Chair and its members include all functional team leaders, the ISAC chair and our Accellera liaison.  The SC is responsible for ensuring that the work of the functional teams meets WG acceptance criteria, is integrated with existing LRM and parallel efforts by other teams. The SC meets regularly via telecon to ensure adequate progress by the teams.

Documents
Documents from meetings and posted to the reflector.

Minutes of VHDL-200x / VASG Meeting June 2003 (MS-Word)  PDF
02/25/03 Kickoff Slides   PDF  
02/27/03 Working Group Meeting Slides   PDF  
03/03/03 DATE Meeting Slides   PDF  
Priorities List   PDF  


Email Reflector
Much of the work and communication of this group will be done via the email reflector.  To join, send an email message majordomo@eda.org with subscribe vhdl-200x in the message body (or use the link below).  You must join the reflector before you can post to it.

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Participating
First, join the reflector. Second, to have a say you need to vote on issues. To be able to vote, you must be a member of DASC. For more details see the reflector discussion.


Change Proposals
Change proposals are managed by the respective team. A description of each team and a link to their website is provided below.


Group Organization
Organizationally, the 200x effort will be divided into the following teams, each with its own email reflector and webpage.  

Fast Track
Make critical updates to the language to support other standards groups (such as IEEE P1164, IEEE P1076.3, Assertions).

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Performance
Improve tool performance.  Especially simulation performance.

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Assertions
Define support for temporal expressions and assertion-based verification.

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Testbench / Verification
Enhance language for testbench/verification capabilities.

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Environment
Add simulation control environment.

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Modeling and Productivity
Enhance VHDL to facilitate modeling and increase designer productivity.

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Data Types and Abstraction
Enhance type system (unions/variant records) and add higher level abstractions (interfaces).

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IP Protection and Encryption
Provide language support for protecting and encrypting IP in a manner that is tool independent and portable (within reasonable assumptions).

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Last updated:  29-March-2003
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