P1076 October 13, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• JohnShields * JimLewis * DavidBishop * PeterFlake * CharlesGardiner

Agenda:

• Approve Sepetmber 22 Minutes
  • Motion PeterFlake * 2nd: JohnShields
• Continue discussion of language change requirements.

Discussion

• If Conditional Compilation requires further exploration of code examples and first class language vs. pre-compiler discussion, then John would like someone else to pick up the proposal and work on it.
• Peter working on DPI and hopes to have updates on TWIKI by next meeting
• David
  • answering Q's on fixed and float packages from VHDL-2008
  • Matrix packages gaining maturity and moved up to summary list
  • Working on calculator math package for fixed and floating point stuff
  • Looked at doing base 10 math package and shelved it for now.
  • Base 2 to base 10 BCD conversions (IEEE-854 2006)
• Jim
  • Expect to get back to working on Functional Coverage
• David
  • Has a need for selectable package bodies
  • Jim can see a need for this also
  • David will start proposal on it.
• Charles
  • No current AI. Will look through list.

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday October 27, 8 am Pacific