Meeting 48 Minutes

Teleconference, February 9, 2009

A quorum of four out of seven voting members present. Five non-voting members are also present. Attendance and voter status indicated on the roster web page.

Monday, February 9, 2009, 1706 UTC; 9:06 am Pacific Standard Time

Attendees

• Voting members: Andrew Piziali, Joseph Hupcey, Mark Strickland, Yaron Kashai

• Non-voting members, Dave Von Bank, Henry Von Bank, Matan Vax, Michael McNamara, Srinivasan Venkataramanan (CVC)

1. Call to order meeting 48 on February 9 at 9 am PST (1700 UTC)

• Remind members to mail a message to "rollcall@ieee1647.org" in order to record their meeting attendance.

2. Approval of January 12 meeting 47 minutes

• Solicit motion to approve the minutes

  • Yaron motioned

  • Joe seconded

  • Minutes approved

3. Status update

• December 1 Action Items

  • Andrew — will post technical documents contributed by Cadence for each of the seven language additions under consideration. Available in the "Downloads" section of the web site. — Done

  • Andrew — will discuss P1647 participation with Victor Berman (DASC chair) and Michael Kipness (DASC IEEE rep) as a wiki contributor for the purpose of maintaining voting privileges. — Pending

  • Joe Hupcey — will identify a driver customer for each language addition on the table and ask them to join the eWG and contribute both labor and, if necessary, funding. — Pending

• January 12 Action Items

  • Andrew — Solicit election returning officer. Sent message to Peter Ashenden but no reply yet. Mike Mcnamara volunteered for this position. [Late update: Peter Ashenden agreed to serve as returning officer and will begin the election shortly. — A. Piziali] — Done

• Andrew — Send Mona Sabet legal letter to Joe H. — Done

• Task Forces

  • Constraints (lead: ______________)

    • Named constraints

    • Type constraints

    • Andrew will contact likely candidates for the lead.

  • Coverage (lead: Andrew Piziali)

    • Temporal coverage

    • Srini V.

    • Matan: This proposal is not implemented.

  • Macros (lead: Matan)

    • Define-as-computed

    • Matan suggests replacing p1647 chapter with the current Specman

    • chapter 21, "Macros"

  • Ports (lead: ______________)

    • Interface ports

    • TLM ports as in SystemC

    • Yaron tentative

    • Andrew will contact likely candidates for the lead.

  • Types (lead: ______________)

    • Parameterized types

    • Real data type

    • Henry will contribute

    • Andrew will contact likely candidates for the lead.

• Schedule

• February '09

  • Working group election

  • Organize technical task forces

  • Begin review of technical contributions

• Fall '09

  • Integrate changes into LRM

  • Decide what features is and what is out

• Spring 2010

  • Ballot P1647-2010

4. Other business

• Any other business?

  • Matan: Nobody named for constraints task force. Everyone should wait for a week or so before downloading the named constraints document as Cadence is revising it.

• Mail a message to rollcall@ieee1647.org!

5. Call for essential patents

• The IEEE-SA updated the patent policy effective April 2008

• The details are available in updated slide set at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf (See "Patent related" from the IEEE 1647 home page, "Slides About IEEE Patent Policy").

• If you believe that any patent claims are essential patent claims, please inform the working group. Review the posted slides for more information.

6. Next meeting

• March 9 at 9 am PST (1700 UTC)

7. Adjourn

• Yaron motioned

• Dave Von Bank seconded

• Motion approved

• Meeting adjourned

Action Items

• Andrew — solicit constraints, ports and types task force leads.

• Joe Hupcey — Identify toll-free Bangalore dial-in number for Srini V.