Meeting 49 Minutes

Teleconference, March 9, 2009

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

Monday, March 9, 2009, 1605 UTC; 9:05 am Pacific Standard Time

Attendees

• Voting members (8/9 voting members present)

  • Andrew Piziali

  • Dave Von Bank

  • Henry Von Bank

  • Joseph Hupcey

  • Mark Strickland

  • Matan Vax

  • Serrie Chapman

  • Yaron Kashai

• Non-voting members

  • Brett Lammers (CDNS)

  • Giles Hall (ARC)

  • Mike Bartley (TVS)

  • Michael McNamara

  • Stylianos D.

1. Call to order meeting 49 on March 9 at 9 am PDT (1600 UTC)

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

2. Approval of February 9 meeting 48 minutes

• Solicit motion to approve the minutes

• Yaron motioned

• Serrie seconded

• Minutes approved

3. Status update

• Officer Election

  • Close of nominations is today at 5 pm PDT

  • Candidates

    • Chair: Darren Galpin

    • Vice Chair: Stylianos Diamantidis

    • Secretary: open

• Action Items

  • 12/1/08

    • 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 H. — 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. 3/6 update: Joe is coordinating this with CDNS Support, correlating enhancement requests with P1647-2010 features. Expected to be a somewhat slow process as service requests are not currently categorized by language construct. — Pending

  • 2/9/09

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

    • Joe H. — Identify toll-free Bangalore dial-in number for Srini V. — done, no such number available

• P1647 Call-For-Participation Letter

  • Final draft

  • Channels

    • ASIC Design Yahoo! group

    • Cadence AE customers

    • DeepChip

    • DVClub

    • Inactive P1647 WG members

    • Specman Yahoo! group

    • Universities

    • Verification Guild

• P1647-2010 Features

  • Define-As-Computed

  • Interface Ports

  • Named Checks

  • Named Constraints

  • Parameterized Types

  • Real Data Type

  • Temporal Coverage

  • Type Constraints

• Task Forces

  • Constraints (lead: Mark Strickland)

    • Named checks

    • Named constraints

    • Type constraints

  • Coverage (lead: Andrew Piziali)

    • Temporal coverage

    • Srini V. volunteered

  • Macros (lead: Matan Vax)

    • Define-as-computed

  • Ports (lead: ______________)

    • Interface ports

    • TLM ports as in SystemC

    • Yaron is a tentative lead

  • Types (lead: Mike Bartley)

    • Parameterized types

    • Real data type

    • Henry will contribute

• 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?

  • Joe H. — Can people self-nominate for officer positions? What if there is no nomination for the secretary position?

  • Mac — Yes, self-nomination is allowed. If there is no nomination, chair or vice-chair will appoint a secretary.

  • Joe H. — For the tech writer task, Al Kolka is interested in supporting us; when will we need him?

  • Andy — Once task forces have looked at the new features and decided what will be included, we will know the schedule better. How much time will Al be able to dedicate?

  • Joe H. — Per week, 2 hours to 1 day depending on exactly when he is needed.

  • Giles — For newcomers, can you summarize the roles of the task forces?

  • Andy — They will review the features versus the rest of the LRM, decide what to include as part of the standard, make changes to the document as required, and work with the tech writer on the updated LRM section. The lead will coordinate the work of ideally about 3 task force members.

  • Serrie — Are we looking for just leads now or also members?

  • Andy — Both.

• 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

• April 20 at 9 am PDT (1600 UTC)

7. Adjourn

• Yaron motioned

• Stylianos seconded

• Motion approved

• Meeting adjourned at 9:35 am PDT